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content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
A post about the content-visibility property that helps to improve loads times by skipping rendering of offscreen content.
CSS { In Real Life } | Drop-Shadow: The Underrated CSS Filter
A post about the drop-shadow filter and the difference between it and box-shadow.
Naming layout components — Stuff & Nonsense
How do you name layout components? Some thoughts from Andy Clarke.
Nailing the Perfect Contrast Between Light Text and a Background Image | CSS-Tricks
This is useful, getting a good contrast when you want to place text over a background image using HTML <canvas>.
More Control Over CSS Borders With background-image | CSS-Tricks
A short post demonstrating how to use background-image for better borders, and explaining how the border generator built by Amit Sheen works.
Optimizing CSS for faster page loads - Tomas Pustelnik's personal website
Various ways to optimize CSS, to improve page load times.
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