Issue 217
Expanding tables, Intersection Observer, Box Shadows, and Houdini APIs
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Issue 217
I spent last week at W3C TPAC in Japan, a week of meetings and discussions, then flew back to make it to Edinburgh for Finch Front-End where I presented a new talk. It's a busy time of year! After a couple of days at home, I'll be heading to Amsterdam for View Source and Fronteers. I believe there are a couple of tickets left for my Fronteers workshop, which will most likely be my last in Europe this year.
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Rachel Andrew, CSS Layout News
Firefox will be moving to a faster release cycle in 2020, reducing the cycle slowly from the current 7 week cycle.
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Slides for a talk I gave for the first time at Finch Front-End, a lovely new event up in Edinburgh.
An excellent deep dive into how to make a table with expanding rows accessible.
Adding multiple box shadows, increasing in offset and blur, in order to create a smoother shadow.
A write-up of the new Houdini API in Chrome 78, which will allow us to register the type of custom properties, for example registering a particular property as <color> to ensure a valid value for the manner in which you are using the property is used.
A fantastic article on Intersection Observer, going into great detail about how it works and also giving some use cases.