It’s incredible to see how far web standards have come. Flash was one of the reasons a lot of folks started building websites. Flash was one of the reasons Simon Owen started building websites. It pioneered in a lot of areas, and this led to people creating amazing things with it. Over the years, it’s pushed the web forward a great deal. Adobe’s official announcement of dropping support of Flash, though, does raise concerns. Here are some of the groundbreaking things Flash could do back then, and how we can go about doing them today.
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Even if you don’t use any client-side JavaScript at all to build a site, it doesn’t mean you have to give up on the idea of building with components. Learn how to build a static site with the help of an HTML preprocessor. In this article, Chris Coyier will take a walk through a site he built recently using this technique. He used CodePen Projects to build it, which offers Nunjucks as a preprocessor, which was perfectly up for the job.
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Ever wondered how achieve styling of empty grid cells without adding redundant empty elements? Well, CSS Generated Content can help you do just that. In this article, Rachel Andrew is going to take a look at how to use CSS Generated Content to achieve styling of empty cells without adding redundant empty elements and show some use cases where this technique makes sense.
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Do You Need A Media Query? The first rule of using media queries is to ask yourself if you really need to use a Media Query at all. In this article, Rachel Andrew will take a look at the use of media queries for responsive design today, how they work alongside Flexbox and Grid Layout, and also have a look at what is coming in the future.
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In part two of this two-part series, Brian Holt explains why large refactors are easy by using the Elm Compiler, how to handle side-effects, and how to work with JavaScript. He’ll work through large refactors by relying on the Elm compiler, and set up recurring events that interact with JavaScript to trigger drum samples. Elm has been the most invigorating language Brian has worked in lately. Using the Elm Architecture helps you focus on what matters to your users.
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Sometimes, you might wonder why something ends up the size that it is. Or, you might want to do something different to the default behavior. To do so, you need to know something of how the underlying algorithms figure out how to distribute space. When starting to use Flexbox and Grid, it can be frustrating to find that we sometimes don’t get the layout we expect. Often this is due to the way sizing is calculated in these new layout methods. In this article, Rachel Andrew will try to explain exactly how big that box is, and how it got to be that size!
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Writing in a new language requires time and practice. Front-end developer Brian Holt guides readers through building a drum sequencer in Elm. In part one of this two-part series, he’ll walk through the foundational concepts in Elm, i.e. getting started, using types, rendering views, and updating state. You will learn how to work with the Elm architecture in order to create simple applications.
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Once web apps function like native apps, the design interactions would also change to address the use case — namely, the ubiquity of animations. As web developers, we need a good foundation to create animations that are both performant and maintainable, which is paramount to the native web app landscape. In this article Christopher Ng will show you how to go from After Effects to CSS transitions, animations and keyframes.
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This article is about the Block Formatting Context (BFC). Today, Rachel Andrew will explain the existing ways to create a Block Formatting Context, why it is important in CSS layout, and show you a new method of creating one. She’ll explain what a BFC is through examples which are likely to be familiar to you, and then show you a new value of display, that really only makes sense once you understand what a BFC is and why you might need one.
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In this article, Huijing Chen covers known and obscure features of Firefox DevTools that can come in handy when you’re building and debugging CSS Grid layouts. You may have heard quite a bit of talk about a CSS feature called “Grid” this year. If you are someone who cringes when you hear the words “CSS” and “grid” in the same sentence, then I highly suggest you check out this new CSS module called CSS Grid.
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