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Issue #92

January 7, 2014

Friends,

thanks for sticking with CSS Weekly for another year. I greatly appreciate your support and trust.

I hope you had great holidays, that you’ve managed to recharge your batteries and that you’re ready for the challenges New Year has prepared for you.

Starting from today, I’ll be moving the release schedule of the newsletter to Monday evening, which will work better for me, and hopefully for you too. All comments are, as always, appreciated.

Happy New Year!

Headlines

CSS in the 4th Dimension

Lea Verou
CSS in the 4th Dimension

In this talk Lea Verou explains that you don’t have to use JavaScript for everything, particularly for transitions and animations. She start from the basics of CSS transitions and animations, but quickly moves to more advanced tips and tricks which will help you to fully leverage these exciting technologies.

The Critical Rendering Path

Patrick Sexton
The Critical Rendering Path

Patrick Sexton shows how it’s possible to make a large webpage with many resources load faster than a small webpage with few resources. (Yes, performance matters!)

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Articles & Tutorials

Let’s Make a Web Component!

Let’s Make a Web Component!

Ruth John

Ruth John gives a very nice and detailed introduction into Web Components. She explains basic concepts of Templates, Shadow DOM and Custom Elements.

A Simple Mixin Alternative to Standard CSS Grids

A Simple Mixin Alternative to Standard CSS Grids

Kezz Bracey

Kezz Bracey demonstrates how to easily build your own simple CSS grid system with a little help from a CSS Preprocessor.

Reducing the Weight of Image Heavy Pages

Ian Feather

Ian Feather shares a couple of nice tips on optimizing image-heavy pages.

Our principles for BEM + Sass

The 14islands team shares their principles for BEM. You’ll surely find a couple of nice tips in this article.

SVG Optimisation: The Basics

Dudley Storey

In this article Dudley Storey introduces the concepts of SVG optimization and discusses hand-editing SVG code as one of the basic forms of optimization.

Styling HTML elements based on locale

Sergey Lukin

Sergey Lukin shows how to easily style an element based on its locale using :lang pseudo class.

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Tools

Type Rendering Mix

Type Rendering Mix is a tool that lets you apply CSS based on the text rasterizer and antialiasing that browser is using.

Scut

Scut is a Sass utility library — a collection of Sass utilities which should ease and improve your implementations of common style-code patterns.

Until next week

Happy coding,
Zoran Jambor

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