Issue #298

January 17, 2018

Better Typography with Font Variants

Jonathan Harrell gives an in-depth guide on using font variants, including ligatures, caps, numerals and alternate glyphs, to create more precise, beautiful typography on the web.

Patrick Brosset explores what alignment means in Flexbox and Grid.

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Articles & Tutorials

“display: contents" Is Coming

Manuel Rego Casasnovas gives an overview of “display: contents”.

The Latest Ways to Deal with the Cascade, Inheritance and Specificity

Ollie Williams explains how we will soon be able to handle inheritance and specificity in new ways.

Meet the New Dialog Element

Keith J. Grant showcases some nice features of the new <dialog> element that might be easy to miss.

How To Create a Living Style Guide

Adriana De La Cuadra delves into the nitty-gritty details of creating a living style using DocumentCSS.

Small Tweaks That Can Make a Huge Impact on Your Website’s Accessibility

Andy Bell shares some tips on improving the accessibility of your sites.

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Tools

Direction Reveal

Direction Reveal is a small JavaScript plugin that detects which direction a user enters/exits a block, allowing you to reveal/hide content based on this direction.

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Infinite Scroll

Infinite Scroll is a JavaScript plugin that automatically adds the next page into your content, saving users from a full page load.

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Inspiration

An Open Source Etiquette Guidebook

Kent C. Dodds & Sarah Drasner share a bullet point list of etiquette in open source to help you have a more enjoyable time in the community and contribute to making it a better place.

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