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Advocates for browsers to display image alt text during loading to improve UX on slow connections and accessibility.
Advocates for browsers to display image alt text during loading to improve UX on slow connections and accessibility.
Explains how CSS cascade prioritizes rules based on importance and origin before specificity, detailing user/author styles and !important.
Apple releases Safari 9.1 with new web features like picture element and CSS variables, sparking discussion on its improved release cycle.
A developer details implementing Prism.js for syntax highlighting on their blog, focusing on progressive enhancement.
Explains why and how to create a WordPress child theme to safely customize a theme without losing changes during updates.
A front-end developer's wishlist for 2016, focusing on container queries, Service Worker adoption, and new CSS selectors.
A guide to CSS typography properties, covering font, text, alignment, and spacing controls for web design.
A detailed guide explaining the CSS vertical-align property, its typography units, and its values for inline and table-cell elements.
A technical guide on using CSS Flexbox to create responsive, self-adjusting grid layouts that handle dynamic content elegantly.
A CSS tutorial explaining how to use transform:scale() on a parent element without affecting the visual size of its child elements.
Explains CSS techniques to define image aspect ratios, preventing layout reflow and improving page load experience.
A developer shares three reusable SASS mixins for media queries, element centering, and fade transitions to improve CSS workflow.
Explains how to use CSS system font keywords (caption, icon, menu, etc.) to style web elements with the user's OS fonts.
A technical guide explaining the CSS border-image property, its syntax, sub-properties, and how to use images as borders.
A CSS technique using text-shadow to create bold hover effects without causing layout jumps, with fallbacks for older browsers.
Explains how CSS positioning properties like display, position, and float interact and override each other.
Explains the CSS z-index property, stacking levels, and stacking contexts for controlling element layering in web development.
A final comparison article summarizing various CSS and SVG techniques for web design, with links to detailed resources.
Explains the difference between CSS units 'em' and 'rem' for relative sizing, with practical examples.
Compares CSS and SVG techniques for creating non-rectangular UI components like circular menus, exploring their capabilities and trade-offs.