Issue #445

Andy Bell explores masonry layout, :is selector, clamp(), ch and ex units, updated text decoration, and a few other useful new CSS properties.

Tobias Ahlin takes a deep-dive into two strategies that produced the most significant performance impact for GitHub’s new homepage: crafting high-performance animations and serving the perfect image.

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Una Kravets explains how to maintain aspect ratio within images and elements with the new aspect-ratio CSS property.

Matt Hobbs outlines how a small change in the ordering of your font sources in the @font-face rule can significantly impact performance.

Katie Hempenius shows how to optimize carousels for performance and usability.

Eric Bailey shares some advice on working with tabindex attribute.

Luka Peharda gives some fundamental tips on becoming a better developer.

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An online tool to generate performant striped backgrounds using only CSS.

Pikaday is a lightweight JavaScript datepicker with no dependencies.

Gyula Németh built a CSS-only proof-of-concept memory game that works in email clients.