Links
Friday Front-End’s Top Links of 2024
Every week on Friday Front-End, I share a curated list of five articles and one video. It's fun at the end of the year to look back and see which links got the most traction. Here are the links that got the most clicks.
Balancing Text In CSS
Balancing text in CSS helps make designs look cleaner and easier to read. Features like
text-wrap: balance
andtext-wrap: pretty
help us in fixing that.
Why I’m excited about text-box-trim as a designer
Jason Bradberry shows us what’s possible in the real world with the new CSS
text-box-trim
capabilities from a designer’s perspective, and gives us a deep dive into the text spacing and alignment problems it solves.
New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025
Searching for the most flexible front-end workflows and toolkits, it’s easy to forget how powerful some of the fundamentals on the web have become these days. This post is a journey through new front-end features and what they are capable of.
Colleges Must Fix Millions of Web Pages. It's About Damn Time.
Think remediation is painful? May you never have to face daily accessibility barriers.
Videos
Third Party Woes
Third-party scripts represent one of the most vexing challenges in web performance. In this talk, we’ll look at how to identify third-party script issues, some potential ways to mitigate their impact, and what the larger performance community needs to do to tackle these problems.
Sponsor
Sponsored by Cloud Four
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