Eric’s post showed me that web components could be simpler than I thought. Jeremy came up with a brilliantly approachable name with “HTML web components.” And everyone else who wrote about them in the following weeks added to the growing sense that, yes, this was a thing that I could do, that had clear value, and I began looking for opportunities to use them.

Now that responsive HTML video delivery works across all browsers, let's look at how to use it.

Today I wanna talk about a CSS feature that doesn't get too much attention… but it should! The isolation property basically provides more control over how elements interact with the rest of the document, and it is often an elegant solution for z-index issues.

The hanging-punctuation property in CSS is almost a no-brainer. The classic example is a blockquote that starts with a curly-quote. Hanging that opening curly-quote into the space off to the start of the text and aligning the actual words is a better look.

We’re living in somewhat of a CSS renaissance with new features, techniques, experiments, and ideas coming at us to an extent we haven’t seen since “CSS3”. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when your profession seems to be advancing at breakneck speed, but Geoff Graham considers the ways “modern” CSS in 2023 has actually made CSS “easier” to write.