Issue #273

July 11, 2017

Evaluating Technology

In this talk, Jeremy Keith explains how to evaluate tools and technologies in a way that best benefits the people who use the websites that we are designing and developing.

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Did CSS Get More Complicated Since the Late Nineties?

Hidde de Vries looks into the early days of CSS and explains that a lot has changed, but not really things that touch on how we apply CSS to structured markup.

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Articles & Tutorials

CSS Myths

Cathy Dutton looks at some of the common misconceptions and myths around CSS.

Is It Really Safe to Start Using CSS Grid Layout?

Rachel Andrew considers the issue of supporting older browsers when using new technology such as CSS Grid Layout.

What's the Deal with Collapsible Margins?

Ire Aderinokun explains how exactly collapsible margins work.

The Options for Programmatically Documenting CSS

Kaloyan Kosev looks at the most popular tools for creating CSS documentation.

Using CSS Variables Correctly

Mike Riethmuller created a few demos that show some good and bad ways to use CSS variables, and how their differences from preprocessors might change how we structure CSS.

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Tools

TestCafe

TestCafe is a pure node.js end-to-end solution for testing web apps. It takes care of all the stages: starting browsers, running tests, gathering test results and generating reports.

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Flubber

Flubber is a tool for creating shape animations. It provides a best-guess interpolation for any two arbitrary shapes (or collections of shapes) that results in a reasonably smooth animation.

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