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Asko Nõmm reached a breaking point with front end: I want to have a personal life and not have to spend my nights reading up on some new flavour of *.js in fear that if I don’t I would soon be made irrelevant. I don’t want to learn nor use a million different tools. I don’t want to know a bit about..

In this week’s roundup, WebKit’s prefixed autofill becomes a standard, the pointer cursor is for more than just links, and browsers are jumping on board to delay videos set to autoplay until they’re in view… plus more! Let’s jump right into it. CSS ::-webkit-autofill has become a standard feature ..

Bruce Lawson with the tip of the day, warning against the use of pointer-events: none on forms labels. We know that pointer-events is used to change how elements respond to click, tap, hover, and active states. But it apparently borks form labels, squashing their active hit target size to something ..

Joy Heron bought a cool domain name and published an article there: Luckily, with modern HTML and CSS, we can create responsive and accessible web apps with relative ease. In my years of doing software development, I have learned some HTML and CSS tips and tricks, and I want to present these in thi..

Components are great, aren’t they? They are these reusable sources of truth that you can use to build rock-solid front-ends without duplicating code. You know what else is super cool? Headless content management! Headless content management system (CMS) products offer a content editing experience w..

Nils Binder talks about a technique for spacing between two elements. Picture a header on a large screen with a logo in the upper left and nav in the upper right. Then a small screen, when they can no longer be on the same “row” and need to wrap, they don’t just wrap but are centered. A video expl..

An interesting conversation came up at work the other day: Should we use the CSS float property now that we have CSS Grid and Flexbox? The short answer No! Well, mostly. I’d only use it today for wrapping text around images, though and I’d avoid using float entirely for layouts. The longer, more..

Maximiliano Firtman has a look at PWAs this year, including trying to get a bead on how widespread they are: At the end of 2020, approximately 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% had an installable Web App Manifest file. Remember that some platforms -such as Safari on iOS or Chrome o..

WordPress core is making the jump from jQuery 1.12.4 to jQuery 3.5.1! This is a big deal for lots of reasons — like modern features, better DX, and security improvements to name a few. Right now, the plan is to release the update in WordPress 5.7, which is slated to release on March 9. 🤞 WordPress ..

GraphQL is a query language and server-side runtime environment for building APIs. It can also be considered as the syntax that you write in order to describe the kind of data you want from APIs. What this means for you as a backend developer is that with GraphQL, you are able to expose a single end..