Links
Friday Front-End’s Top Links of 2023
In 2023, Friday Front-End shared a curated list of five articles and one video every week. Here are the links that were most popular.
CSS is fun again
CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the time. If you haven't used CSS in a long time, for whatever reason, now is the time to take a look again.
How to add the simplest View Transition to my site
Enjoy a simple crossfade between two pages by adding one more
<meta>tag to your site’s<head>. That’s all there is! Any page on the same site with that tag in the document head gets the default crossfade transition right out of the box. No development. No spending hours minutes trying to find some missing semicolon as you struggle with a new feature.
Let it snow – 12 Days of Web Components
Day one of a series of interactive posts that explores the world of web components. Today we're building a tiny winter wonderland ☃️
HTML: The Bad Parts
It's extremely important for web developers to recognize gaps in the platform. To that end, I've decided to collect a few instances where HTML falls short, through accessibility issues or usability issues.
Videos
Probably the most underrated (and useful) CSS feature
I don’t think I’m alone in not using named grid lines very often. Despite that though, I’ve seen the light and in this video I’m going to do my best to convince you that you should be using named grid lines by going through three awesome things that they make possible, each one being cooler than the last… or at least I think so!
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