Reading List 339
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- Cascade Layers, Container Queries, Scope and more! – In the 8th episode of the For A Better Web podcast, I chat with Miriam Suzanne, a CSS expert and independent contributor to the CSS Working Group.
- Customizable select elements – MDN docs.
- CSS Form Control Styling Level 1 – this working draft defines various ways of styling form controls and their different parts.
- Carousels with CSS – if you absolutely must use a carousel, do it this way. But remember that the English for “carousel” is “merry-go-fuckyourself” – which is what it says to your users.
- Better typography with text-wrap pretty – WebKit isn’t the first implementation, but it promises to be the most comprehensive.
- Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems by Simon Willison, who is one of the very few people I trust on the subject of AI.
- Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish.
- Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout – “This article explains what Item Flow is, and its impact on both Flexbox and Grid” by from WebKit team.
- Audiences are still skeptical about generative AI in the news – “Nearly half of Americans say they don’t want news from generative artificial intelligence… Twenty percent of people say publishers shouldn’t use AI at all.”
- History of the Web: Chris Lilley – Brian Kardell interviews Chris Lilley about his early (pre-W3C) involvement in PNG, CGM, HTML 2; and then some early CSS, SVG and WebFont history.
- iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs
- Do politics belong at web events? asks Remington Sharp
- Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? – an in-depth probe into this question
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Another strong roundup. The bit on resilient CSS layouts is worth a second pass. Between deep reads, a tiny creative web detour like https://nanoaimaker.com/ is a decent palate cleanser.
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