#432 — March 18, 2020

Read on the Web

Frontend Focus

‘CSS X’ — The CSS Versioning Debate — Remember the recent debate around CSS versioning and whether we should have a ‘CSS 4’ for marketing reasons? Here’s a good account from the W3C of just how CSS feature releases have worked up until this point. This piece also asks about the motives behind defining CSS versions for developers: How would it be defined in a useful way? How often should a new version be defined? And who could even define it?

Bert Bos (W3C)

16 Things to Improve Your Website Accessibility — Ensuring your sites are equally available to all is irrefutably the moral and right-minded approach to development (and it’s increasingly also a legal requirement too). Here, Bruce runs through over a dozen accessibility matters that you can address including technical, design and copywriting issues.

Bruce Lawson

Check-Off Implementing Checkout with Square — Easily start taking payments from your site with Square’s secure & customizable payments form. Get started today.

Square sponsor

A Complete Guide to calc() in CSS — CSS has a special calc() function for doing basic math — here, Chris Coyier runs through “just about everything there is to know” about it. A detailed guide with plenty of code snippet examples.

CSS Tricks

?  The CSS Podcast — 001: The Box Model — A new podcast from the Chrome Developers team all about CSS. In the first episode Una Kravets and Adam Argyle discuss the CSS box model.

Google podcast

Happy 31st Birthday, World Wide Web — The web turned 31 last week, a good reason to revisit Tim Berners-Lee’s original proposal for the Web.

Coralie Mercier

“The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.”

Sir Tim Berners Lee, computer scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web.

? Jobs

Find a Dev Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers.

Vettery

UX/Frontend Engineer @ Siteline — Join the founding engineering team at Siteline and help us revolutionize the payments process for construction.

Siteline

? News, Tutorials & Opinion

CSS :nth-of-class Selector — This isn’t a real selector, but Bram Van Damme looks at some possible shortcomings with nth-child, leading to the conclusion that maybe we do need something like :nth-of-class.

Bram Van Damme

New Media Queries You Need to Know — A look through some of the most interesting new media queries in the Media Query Level 5 spec, and how to use them.

Kristofer Selbekk

Learning CSS Box Alignment — A comprehensive look at concepts in box alignment in CSS, which are useful for learning both Flexbox and Grid.

Ahmad Shadeed

The Problem with ‘Snackbars’ and What to Use Instead — Snackbars (those little ‘toast’ notification messages) are a popular way to inform users about something they just did, but Adam thinks they can cause lots of problems for users. Here he explains why that is and what to use instead.

Adam Silver

Animate CSS and SVGs with AnimeJS — AnimeJS is a JavaScript animation library with various features like SVG morphing animations and CSS animations. Here’s a look at how to use it.

Developer Bacon

How to Use CSS Scroll Snap — A straightforward tutorial showing how to add a scroll to your page without having to rely on JavaScript libraries.

Nada Rifki

Register for the Free ForwardJS May 2020 Livestream

ForwardJS sponsor

Building a Node.js Tool to Compare Google Lighthouse Reports

Luke Harrison

Here’s How HTML Microdata Helps With Accessibility

Scott Vinkle

? Code, Tools and Resources

Pure CSS Landscape — ‘An Evening in Southwold’ — This is quite the achievement in realistic CSS art — and you can tweak it. Open up the editor view and alter the color of the sun for your very own personalised sunset.

Ben Evans

Imagine Enjoying PM Software — Clubhouse is fast, delightful, intuitive, and other good adjectives. We’re biased, but we think you should try it.

Clubhouse.io sponsor

A List of Web Performance Testing Tools — If you need to identify performance issues with your site this list of tools is a good place to start.

Shawn Wang

Iconset: A Fast SVG Icon Organizer — This is a smart looking native Mac/Windows app to collect, customize, and manage all your icons.

Iconset Creative

broider: Draw Your Own Repeating Border — A browser-based tool for making “9-patch” border patterns. Chris Coyier has done an accompanying write up on this.

Max Bittker