Issue 191
Making Sense of the New CSS Video, a useful a11y tool, responsive images, and blurred borders
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Issue 191
Heading towards the end of the first quarter of the year, and I'm about to dive into conference season proper with a number of talks and workshops on CSS Layout related subjects. You can follow along via my speaker profile on Notist which is also the place to find my slides and video from previous events.
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Rachel Andrew, CSS Layout News
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“Fit For Purpose: Making Sense of the New CSS” by Eric Meyer
If 2017 was the year of new CSS capabilities, 2018 was the year of trying to figure out what to do with them all. When should boxes flex, and when should they be gridded? What are the best ways to manage your team’s approach to all these new powers? What’s ready for production, and what’s useful in the shop?
This is a fantastic talk, which I was lucky enough to see a few times in person at An Event Apart, and you can now watch it too in this video,
Planning for Responsive Images | CSS-Tricks
A guide to making the right selection out of the options you have for responsive images in order to provide the best experience to your visitors.
Blurred Borders in CSS | CSS-Tricks
Making blurred borders on an image, lots of interesting CSS knowledge wrapped up in this.
All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
Not layout, but I think the crossover between layout and typography nerds is probably fairly strong, and I love in-depth walkthroughs like this.
Interesting
Accessibility Insights
This is great, and immediately picked up some easy things I could fix on one of my projects. While an automated tool can't catch everything, things like color contrast can be, and this tool is a great initial check.
Also take a look at the tab stops tool, which is a brilliant way to make sure you haven't accidentally disconnected the source and visual order of your document when using grid and flexbox.
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