John Cox

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WIRED

Justice for CSS | WIRED

CSS has evolved from a simple styling tool into a genuinely powerful programming language capable of building 3D engines and query databases, yet it remains culturally undervalued and dismissed—a dismissal rooted partly in it being coded as "feminine" frontend work and associated with beauty rather than serious computation. The language's accessibility to beginners and its traditional association with decorative styling have contributed to lower salaries, less rigorous job interview scrutiny, and worse diversity metrics compared to backend languages, while also resulting in a homogenized internet where frameworks like Bootstrap and Tailwind create visual sameness rather than distinctive design. Modern CSS, with features like container queries, custom properties, and upcoming conditionals, has become sophisticated enough that the philosophical arguments against calling it a "real" programming language no longer hold much water.

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easings.net

Easing Functions Cheat Sheet

This guide explains easing functions—mathematical formulas that control how animations accelerate and decelerate over time to mimic natural motion—and demonstrates how to implement them across CSS, PostCSS, and TypeScript. It provides practical examples of applying easing to properties like size, position, and transparency, along with the underlying mathematical code needed to calculate animation progress at any point from start (0) to finish (1).

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Animsition

A simple and easy jQuery plugin for

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semu.github.io

Timesheet.js - Open time tables with HTML, JavaScript and CSS …

Timesheet.js is a lightweight JavaScript library for creating visual timeline displays without dependencies like jQuery or Angular—you simply include the script, pass it an array of events with dates and descriptions, and it generates an interactive HTML5 timesheet that can be styled with custom CSS. The library supports mobile devices and requires minimal configuration, making it useful for displaying chronological data like project histories or personal timelines.

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pattle.github.io

The Simpsons in CSS

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www.sitepoint.com

12 Little-Known CSS Facts

A collection of lesser-known CSS properties and behaviors that even experienced developers might overlook, including how the color property affects not just text but also alt text, list markers, and borders; the rarely-used visibility collapse value for tables; the expanded background shorthand now including background-size, background-origin, and background-clip; and quirks like vertical percentage values being calculated against container width rather than height, the clip property only working on absolutely positioned elements, and text-decoration becoming a shorthand property for line, color, and style. The post also covers niche features like border-image, empty-cells for tables, and the oblique font-style value, most of which have limited practical application but are worth knowing about for edge cases.

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Mat Simon

COLORGLARE | To close or not to close

# Summaries **Simple but Effective Skeleton Loaders** — Shows how to build placeholder loading states using only HTML and CSS, giving developers complete control over appearance without relying on external libraries. **The createSubscriber() Function** — Explains Svelte's createSubscriber() utility for handling reactive values from external data sources, detailing the problems it solves and when to apply it. **The $effect.root Rune** — Details Svelte 5's $effect.root feature, clarifying its purpose, proper usage patterns, lifecycle behavior, and when to reach for alternative approaches instead. **The $effect.tracking Rune** — Introduces Svelte 5's $effect.tracking rune for managing tracking contexts and explains the problems this addition was designed to solve. **Building an Interactive 3D Hero Animation** — Walks through creating and optimizing a WebGL particle effect using three.js as a starting point, then refactoring into a custom implementation with binary files and web workers for performance. **Labels** — Compares Swift's function parameter labels to TypeScript, showing how explicit naming and overloading in Swift produce more readable and flexible APIs. **Closures** — Examines Swift's closure syntax and capabilities alongside TypeScript equivalents, highlighting features like type inference, shorthand arguments, and trailing closures that enable concise code. **Introduction** — Introduces Swift as a language worth learning for web developers, covering its syntax advantages from variables through async patterns. **Get Full Type Support With Plain JavaScript** — Demonstrates how to leverage TypeScript's benefits while writing in vanilla JavaScript. **Accessible Hamburger Buttons without JavaScript** — Builds a semantic, keyboard-navigable menu toggle using only HTML and CSS. **CSS Resets and Global Styles in Web Components** — Addresses the CSS isolation challenges that arise when extracting components as reusable web components. **Svelte Components as Web Components** — Shows how to build an application in Svelte Kit while also packaging individual components as standalone web components for use elsewhere. **To Close or Not to Close** — Explores HTML's historical development to settle whether the `<br>` tag should include a self-closing slash.

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goratchet.com

bootswatch.com

Bootswatch: Flatly

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soulwire.github.io

Fit.js ? Fit things into other things

This is documentation for a JavaScript library called "fit" that positions and scales one DOM element to fit within another. The library offers flexible alignment options (horizontal and vertical), a choice between fitting content within bounds or covering the entire area, and support for custom transformation methods including CSS transforms, positioning, or custom callbacks. It includes optional automatic re-fitting on window resize and allows both global and per-call configuration.

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CSS-Tricks

Line Menu Icon... That Is A Menu | CSS-Tricks

This post presents a clever UI technique where the hamburger menu icon itself is actually the full menu scaled down to icon size, then expanded when clicked. The implementation uses CSS transforms to shrink the entire menu to 0.1 scale by default, then toggles back to full size with a class change, while managing click interactions through pointer-events and adding a close button. The author also discusses progressive enhancement considerations—inserting the close button with JavaScript, using Modernizr to detect CSS transform support, and ensuring the menu remains accessible if styling fails.

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yostudios.github.io

Spritemapper

Spritemapper is a command-line tool that automatically combines multiple images into a single sprite sheet and generates the corresponding CSS positioning rules, reducing HTTP requests and improving page load times. The tool requires no special CSS syntax—you simply point it at directories of images and it handles the merging and coordinate calculations using an efficient packing algorithm. It has no external dependencies and works across Mac, Linux, and Windows with simple installation via Python's package manager or a Windows installer.

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Hongkiat

7 Tips To Better Mobile-Optimized Websites

This guide covers seven essential components for mobile-optimized websites: the meta viewport tag for controlling page scaling, media queries for responsive design at different breakpoints, Modernizr for detecting browser capabilities and providing fallbacks, TouchSwipe for enabling touch gestures, and platform-specific features like iOS home screen icons, splash screens, and Windows 8 pin icons. The author argues these elements are fundamental technical requirements for ensuring websites function properly and provide good user experience across smartphones and tablets rather than being optional enhancements.

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Simple Focus

FlowType.JS — Responsive web typography at its finest: font-size and line-height based on element width.

FlowType.JS is a JavaScript tool that automatically adjusts font size and line height based on container width to maintain optimal readability (45-75 characters per line) across all screen sizes, eliminating the need to rely solely on CSS media queries. The plugin offers configurable thresholds for element size and font size, plus control over base font sizing, allowing developers to fine-tune typography behavior while keeping implementation simple.

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getbootstrap.com

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a front-end framework offering multiple installation methods (CDN, package managers, or source download) and extensive customization options through Sass, CSS variables, and a utility API. It provides pre-built components styled with utility classes, JavaScript plugins that work without jQuery using HTML data attributes, and integrates with Bootstrap Icons, an open-source SVG library of over 1,800 icons.

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purecss.io

Pure

Pure is a lightweight CSS framework that compresses to just 3.5KB when minified and gzipped, making it ideal for performance-conscious projects. Built on Normalize.css, it provides minimal styling for HTML elements and common UI components while remaining fully responsive and mobile-friendly. The framework is designed to be unopinionated and easy to override, letting developers add their own styles on top rather than fighting against existing rules.

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icalialabs.github.io

Furatto

Furatto is a mobile-first web development framework built with Sass and Compass that emphasizes customization and simplicity, featuring a straightforward grid system and extendable architecture for rapid project development. The framework provides starter templates for common projects like login forms, galleries, and blogs, and welcomes community contributions through issue reporting, social sharing, and theme submissions.

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necolas.github.io