Links
Getting Your Article Shared: Tips from Ten Years of Newsletter Curation
For over ten years now, I’ve been sharing front-end links with the community on Friday Front-End. Every week, I bookmark 20–30 articles, and pick the best ones to include. In that time, I’ve learned some things I want to pass along to you: Recommendations to make your article more likely to be shared in newsletters and social media accounts like this one.
Typographic scales and technical pens
A flexible system for consistent stroke widths across type sizes. Here’s the basic idea: I want all the type on my site to look like it was drawn with one of two technical pens, a standard one with a thinner stroke and a more emphatic one with a thicker stroke.
CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
Prescriptive class name conventions are no longer enough to keep CSS maintainable in a world of increasingly complex interfaces. Can the new
@scoperule finally give developers the confidence to write CSS that can keep up with modern front ends?
Nice Select
This select component intends to showcase what's possible when we combine modern CSS features with thoughtful progressive enhancement. The
appearance: base-selectproperty provides the foundation, while anchor positioning, scroll-state queries, and entrance animations create a polished, accessible experience.
The Too Early Breakpoint
An opinion on why we shouldn't switch to the smallest design too early. Let’s take an example of a real design. We have a hero section with content and an image. When I resize the viewport a bit, the design instantly switches to the mobile design. While that sounds that the person who built this cares about responsive web design, it implies that they don’t care that much, too, about the details.
Videos
Refactoring CSS
In her talk, Ana will explore practical strategies for navigating the challenges of maintaining and modernising legacy CSS. Is refactoring an option? What are the pros and cons of this? How do we approach stakeholders? How do we prioritise and initiate changes, measure improvements and quick wins?
Sponsor
Sponsored by Cloud Four
Thanks to Cloud Four for sponsoring this week’s newsletter! They solve complex responsive web design and development challenges for ecommerce, healthcare, fashion, B2B, SaaS, and nonprofit organizations.
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