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What if an had within it another of the exact same source? Inception, as they say. Baptise Crespy does this all-important research in the name of art and science. Turns out browsers are smart enough to not allow this infinite looping to occur (and likely crash your browser/compute..

HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive

Scott Jehl doesn’t mince words here: Removing media support from HTML video was a mistake. It means that for every video we embed in HTML, we’re stuck with the choice of serving source files that are potentially too large or small for many users’ devices (resulting in poor performance, wasteful dat..

:focus-visible Support Comes to Firefox

Look at that! The :focus-visible pseudo-selector is now supported in Firefox, as of version 85 which shipped yesterday. I had to rush over to the MDN Docs just to confirm, and yep, the :focus-visible page has been updated to reflect the news. What’s so cool about :focus-visible? It’s all about the ..

How to Favicon in 2021

I always appreciate someone looking into and re-evaluating the best practices of something that literally every website needs and has a complex set of requirements. Andrey Sitnik has done that here with favicons. The final suggestion: <link rel=..

The Differences in Web Hosting (Go with the Happy Path)

One of our readers checked out “Helping a Beginner Understand Getting a Website Live” and had some follow up questions specifically about hosting providers. Here’s what they asked: What’s the difference between hosting providers? For example, what is the difference between GoDaddy and Hostgator, wh..

A table with both a sticky header and a sticky first column

We’ve covered that individual cells,
and can be position: sticky. It’s pretty easy to make the header of a table stick to the top of the screen while scrolling through a bunch or rows (like this demo). But stickiness isn’t just for the top of the screen, you can stick things in a..

Nested Media Queries

Using media queries in CSS as part of responsive websites is bread and butter stuff to todays front-end developer. Using preprocessors to make them more comfortable to write and easier to maintain has become common practice as well. I spent a few months experimenting with a dozen different approach..

Recreating Game Elements for the Web: The Among Us Card Swipe

As a web developer, I pay close attention to the design of video games. From the HUD in Overwatch to the catch screen in Pokemon Go to hunting in Oregon Trail, games often have interesting mechanics and satisfying interactions, many of which inspire my own coding games at Codepip. Beyond that, impl..

SVG within CSS

Stefan Judis has a “Today I Learned” (TIL) post explaining how SVGs filters can be inlined in CSS. The idea is that CSS has the filter property which supports some built-in functions, like grayscale(100%) and stuff like that. But it can also point to a filter defined by SVG. So you could do filter:..

Animating a CSS Gradient Border

This little trick for gradient borders is super useful: .border-gradient { border: 5px solid; border-image-slice: 1; border-image-source: linear-gradient(to left, #743ad5, #d53a9d); } Here’s some basic demos from our article on the subject. Sephanie Eckles was sharing around the idea with more ..