A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau
A fantastic explanation of the building blocks of SVG, illustrated—as always—with Josh’s interactive examples.
Sass Color Functions in CSS | Jim Nielsen’s Weblog
I’m not the only one swapping out Sass with CSS for colour functions:
Because of the declarative nature of CSS, you’re never going to get something as terse as what you could get in Sass. So sure, you’re typing more characters. But you know what you’re not doing? Wrangling build plugins and updating dependencies to get Sass to build. What you write gets shipped directly to the browser and works as-is, now and for eternity. It’s hard to say that about your Sass code.
Related links
CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language — Smashing Magazine
This is a really thoughtful look at the evolution of CSS and the ever-present need to balance power with learnability.
Kelp
A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components.
Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20025 - YouTube
A great talk by Matthias on what you can do with web standards today!
Polishing your typography with line height units | WebKit
I should be using the lh and rlh units more enough—they’re supported across the board!
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