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Issue #115

June 16, 2014

Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property

Sara Soueidan
Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property

CSS will-change is a new property that allows you to let a browser know ahead of time that an element may change, so that it can make any preparatory optimisations. Sara Soueidan shows you how to put an end to cargo-cult hacks, and speed up your animations.

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Sassy Z-Index Management For Complex Layouts

Jackie Balzer
Sassy Z-Index Management For Complex Layouts

Jackie Balzer shares an interesting approach for handling z-index values effectively by using simple lists of items in Sass.

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Articles & Tutorials

Using Sass Maps

Using Sass Maps

Kitty Giraudel

Kitty Giraudel explains how Sass Maps work and shows on real-life examples how can they be useful. I bet you’ll start using them once you find out how helpful Sass Maps are.

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How to Create a Tiled Background Slideshow

How to Create a Tiled Background Slideshow

Manoela Ilic

A tutorial that shows how to create a very appealing four tiles slideshow effect using 3D transforms, transitions and animations.

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Box-Sizing: The Secret to Simple CSS Layouts

Nick Pettit

Nick Pettit gives a very nice introduction into CSS Box model.

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Use Cases and Requirements for Element Queries

Mat Marquis & Scott Jehl

A document that aims to present some of the use cases that an “element query” syntax would solve.

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Sharing Data Between Sass and JavaScript with JSON

Nate Hunzaker

Nate Hunzaker shows a very clever way to share data between Sass and JavaScript.

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Recommended Reading

The CSS Animations Pocket Guide

Val Head
The CSS Animations Pocket Guide

This excellent, concise book is designed to be a jump-start guide for you to familiarise yourself with CSS animations and start using them to bring your web-based interfaces and artwork to life.

It will give you a taste of what’s possible with CSS Animations and provide a strong foundation on which you can start experimenting and creating.

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Tools

loadCSS

Scott Jehl figured out the fastest way to load non-critical CSS so that the impact on initial page drawing is minimal.

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bounce.js

bounce.js is a handy tool for generating tasty CSS3 powered keyframe animations.

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Until next Week

Happy coding,
Zoran Jambor

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