I created a little library at work to make those “skeleton screens” that I’m not sure anyone likes. […] We named it skellyCSS because… skeletons and CSS, I guess. We still aren’t even really using it very much, but it was fun to do and it was the first node package I made myself (for the most part). Regardless of whether or not anyone “likes” skeleton screens, they do come up and have their use cases. And they’re probably not something you want to reb..

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Developers suffer in the great multitudes whom their sacred block-based websites cannot reach. Johannes Gutenberg (probably) Long time WordPresser, first time Gutenberger here. I’m a fan even though I’m still anchored to a classic/block hybrid setup. I believe Johanes himself would be, too, trading feather pens for blocks. He was a forward-thinking 15th-century inventor, after all. My enthusiasm for Gutenberg-ness is curbed at the theming level. I’ll sling blocks..

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Happy birthday, Chris Coyier — and thank you for CSS-Tricks as well as everything you do at CodePen, ShopTalk, Boost, and even your personal blog! Quick Hit #13 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter...

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Giant kudos to Scott Jehl on releasing his new Web Components De-Mystified online course! Eight full hours of training from one of the best in the business. Quick Hit #12 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter...

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Eric gifting us with his research on all the various things that anchors (not links) do when they are in :focus. Turns out, there’s a lot! That’s an understatement! This is an incredible amount of work, even if Eric calls it “dry as a toast sandwich.” Boring ain’t always a bad thing. Let me simply drop in a pen that Dave put together pulling all of Eric’s findings into a table organized to compare the different behaviors between operating systems — and ..

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A gem from Chris Ferdinandi that details how to use custom events to hook into Web Components. More importantly, Chris dutifully explains why custom events are a better fit than, say, callback functions. With a typical JavaScript library, you pass callbacks in as part of the instantiate process. […] Because Web Components self-instantiate, though, there’s no easy way to do that. There’s a way to use callback functions, just not an “easy” way to go about it. ..

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You ever find yourself in bumper-to-bumper traffic? I did this morning on the way to work (read: whatever cafe I fancy). There’s a pattern to it, right? Stop, go, stop, go, stop… it’s almost rhythmic and harmonious in the most annoying of ways. Everyone in line follows the dance, led by some car upfront, each subsequent vehicle pressed right up to the rear of the next for the luxury of moving a few feet further before the next step. Photo by Jakob Jin Have you..

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A client asked if we could mimic the “rubber band” scrolling behavior on many mobile devices. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. It’s a behavior that already exists and happens automatically in most browsers. In iOS Safari, for example, you’re allowed to scroll beyond the top or bottom edge of the viewport by a few hundred pixels, and letting go snaps the page back in place. I had heard of some instances where someone might want to prevent the bo..

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A couple of weeks ago I was super excited about publishing my first CSS-Tricks post: “Letter Spacing is Broken. Forget about that though, what’s important is the post’s topic: letter spacing is broken and doesn’t work as the CSS Specification says it should. In a nutshell, instead of spacing the characters evenly, it leaves an unpleasant space at the end of the element. While this inconsistency between the web and the spec is just a quirk for a Spanish/English ..

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I can’t say I would have ever expected to see Jeremy Keith performing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song “Maps”, but then again, I don’t know what I expected to happen at Frostapalooza. The Event Brad Frost, web designer, author of Atomic Design, and an absolute maniac on the bass, celebrated his birthday by putting together a one-night-only benefit concert featuring musical performances by himself and his talented family and friends. Frostapalooza, held at Mr. Small..

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