Do you longingly reminisce about the days when flying toasters graced your screen? Do words like “Confetti Factory” and “Daredevil Dan” make your heart skip a beat? If so, then never fear—CSS is here! Using modern CSS techniques like animations and transforms, we can imitate several of your favorite After Dark™ screensavers. The animations were made with CSS alone. No animated gifs or JavaScript.
Subsequently, here I am, in June 2022, spitting out my dummy and jumping up and down because there are still no browser implementations. I hear about new CSS features on a near daily basis but no-one is making a fuss about nesting, why?
This week, I’m doing an accessibility audit for a client. One of the first steps is to have a general look at the site. You can – and should – do that manually for sure, but another very useful way to get a good first impression of how good or bad things are is to use an automated tool like Pa11y.
Recently the CSS Working Group approved to start work on the css-variables-2 specification. First planned addition is support for “Custom Units”. Let’s take a look.
Chrome cleaned itself up and has held steady for more than 20 versions. Firefox needs work, but at least saw a tiny improvement. Safari made one tiny improvement but has a much bigger deficit, and I don’t trust it will improve much given its now twice-promised fix for display: contents.
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