Links
Dark Theme in a Day
This is a story of how a few new-ish CSS options came together like a bunch of superheroes in a summer blockbuster movie, and allowed for this project to indeed take up one afternoon, and not much more.
The Slow Death of Internet Explorer and the Future of Progressive Enhancement
Users have more browsers than ever to choose from, yet IE manages to single-handedly tie us to the pre-evergreen past of the web. If developing Chrome-only websites represents one extreme of bad development practice, shackling yourself to a vestigial, obsolete, zombie browser surely represents the other.
Learning Gutenberg: a 7-Part Series
We have a special long-form series we’re kicking off here totally dedicated to Gutenberg, a major change to the WordPress editor. I’ve invited a dynamic duo of authors to bring you this series, which will bring you up to speed on what Gutenberg is, what it can do for your site, and how you can actually develop for it.
Variable Fonts
A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts. The goal is to help you become more familiar with variable fonts in a way that isn’t overwhelming, while also providing straightforward info about the font projects, who made them, and where to find more info or get the fonts to use.
Creating The Feature Queries Manager DevTools Extension
In this article Ire explains how she developed the Feature Queries Manager. Find out how this tool can help you support older browsers, and also how to create your own DevTools extensions.
Videos
The [svg] of .svg, by Sara Soueudan
Scalable Vector Graphics, or Documents? Both. SVG may be known more as an image format, perfect for displaying icons and illustrations, including animated ones. But there are other aspects of SVG that make it as powerful as it is, and those aspects stem from its nature as a document format, as well as its graphical nature. In this talk, Sara is going to highlight some SVG's document side and show you how it can be leveraged to improve and optimize the way we deliver content such as text and images for the Web, including SVG itself.