Cascade layers introduce the new at-rule of @layer. The intent is to help CSS authors be more intentional about ordering the “layers” of CSS rules as a new method of cascade management.
The addition of :focus-visible to WebKit was lead by the community, done by Igalia, and contributed to WebKit without any involvement from Apple except in the sense of their reviewing patches and accepting the contributions. Many of us are mad at Apple for a lot of good reasons, but please don’t let the process of venting that anger tar the goals and achievements of Open Prioritization. The future browser-feature priority you save may be your own.
To tackle this we use scroll triggers. When the user scrolls down to any particular element, we can use that event to do something. It could be anything, even the beginning of an animation. It could even be scroll-triggered lazy loading on images or lazy loading a whole comments section. You can implement it yourself using only a small handful of vanilla JavaScript. That is what we are going to do in this article.
This article will present three different perspectives on accessibility in web design and development. Three perspectives that could help us bridge the great divide between users and designers/developers. It might help us find the common ground to building a better web and a better future.
The online game Wordle recently took the world by storm. Its creator has no intention to monetize it - and the world is richer for it. Because the notion that monetization is the only worthwhile goal on the web is so widespread, this is somehow a very controversial take. But you can actually stand out of the crowd by simply treating the web platform as what it is: a way to deliver content to people.
CSS !important does more than just increase the important of a style rule, it inverts the CSS cascade! Learn what exactly that means in this week’s video.
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