Issue #509

June 15, 2022

Software Engineering - The Soft Parts

Addy Osmani shares some of the software engineering soft skills he learned from working for 10 years on Google Chrome as a Senior Staff Engineering Manager.

Temani Afif outlines some tricks you can use to create single-element loaders.

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Articles & Tutorials

Two Lines of CSS That Boosts 7x Rendering Performance!

Murtaza Nathani explains how content-visibility and contain-intrinsic-size can improve rendering performance.

The Smallest CSS

Robin Rendle explores what’s the smallest amount of CSS that you can write to make HTML look halfway decent.

The Guide To Windows High Contrast Mode

Cristian Díaz explains how to make your sites friendly for Windows High Contrast Mode by using a good set of practices, including the media query forced-colors and its toolset.

What Are Browser-Native Web Components?

Chris Ferdinandi explains what web components are and why you might want to use them.

Aspects of Accessibility (a11y) - Semantics, Contrast and... Anxiety?

Sara W looks into various aspects of Accessibility and reminds us that to keep our minds open to inclusivity.

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