Issue #494

March 1, 2022

Big Images, Blazingly Fast

Wouter Deenik and Erwin Verbruggen share an in-depth article on how their team optimized full-screen images for Rijksmuseum’s new story platform.

An Auto-Filling CSS Grid With Max Columns of a Minimum Size

Mike Herchel explains how to create an auto-filling grid.

CSS Image effects with ImageKit

Learn to create CSS image effects easily with simple techniques and find out what ImageKit’s advantages are over CSS to achieve the same effects.

CSS Quick Tip: Animating In a Newly Added Element

Stephanie Eckles demonstrates how to effectively animate a newly added DOM element.

My White Whale: a Use Case for will-change

Nic Chan shares how she fixed a rendering issue using will-change.

Web Component Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements are Easier Than You Think

John Rhea closely examines ::part and ::slotted pseudo-elements, and the :defined, :host, and :host-context pseudo-classes.

When to Avoid the text-decoration Shorthand Property

Šime Vidas reminds you that setting a shorthand property like “text-decoration: underline” reinitializes any missing parts in the value.

Inspecting Web Views in macOS

Jim Nielsen shows how to inspect web views native macOS apps.

Web Tools Weekly

A weekly newsletter for front-end and full-stack developers featuring coding tips and a categorized list of tools for CSS, JavaScript, React, Vue, SVG, Git, CLI, and lots more.

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pppointed

An online SVG arrow builder to make and customize arrows for your designs.

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Mailwind

Mailwind is a tool that enables you to use Tailwind CSS to design HTML emails.

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Inspiration

We All Are Ukraine 🇺🇦

Vitaly Friedman said it all. We can’t be silent in these times. We need to be united in our fight for peace, democracy, and a better world where everyone can feel free and safe.

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