Issue #375

August 27, 2019

Advice for Technical Writing

Chris Coyier gathered up a bunch of thoughts and references on the subject of technical writing.

Houssein Djirdeh, Addy Osmani and Mathias Bynens dive into the details of the new loading attribute to lazy-load resources.

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Articles & Tutorials

CSS Can Do This... And It's Terrifying!

Aaron Powell shows a few things you can do with CSS, but probably shouldn’t.

Faster Image Loading With Embedded Image Previews

Christoph Erdmann introduces the Embedded Image Preview (EIP) technique, which allows us to load preview images during lazy loading using progressive JPEGs, Ajax and HTTP range requests without having to transfer additional data.

Where Did CSS Named Colours Come From?

Chen Hui Jing shares a whole lot of interesting and entertaining things about colors.

line-clamp

Geoff Graham gives a short introduction to line-clamp property.

Less Than 1% of Website Home Pages Are Likely to Meet Accessibility Standards

Claudia Cahalane looks into WebAIM Milliion accessibility report, which indicates that less than 1% of website home pages are likely to meet standard accessibility requirements.

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