Chris’ Corner: Good & Useful Ideas
I was ogling the idea of Exit Animations recently, that is, a recent proposal for (something like) @exit-style which could allow us to animate elements as we remove them from the DOM. That is largely…
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Chris’ Corner: Monaspace
I’m a sucker for a new coding font. I generally don’t think what coding font you use affects productivity in any significant way (unless it’s distracting) so farting around and switching it up is just…
Chris’ Corner: Galleries, Grids, and GreenPrimaryDark6
Footer.design is a pretty fun gallery site, itself, of course, with a pretty weird/bold footer. I’ve designed my fair share of footers over the years and it’s certainly an area where you just wanna look…
Chris’ Corner: Buttons, Modes, and a Couple of Layout Situations That Are Still a Bit Tricky
If you ever need some inspiration for buttons, definitely check out Lucas Bonomi’s buttons.cool. This is a better-than-it-needs-to-be one-off site just for beautiful buttons: But it’s not just a design gallery, it’s made for front-end…
Chris’ Corner: Considering Code
I enjoyed Stefan Baumgartner’s 5 Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript. I like some philosophical hard-truths from someone who is clearly pretty close to the technology. It doesn’t “fix JavaScript”, it’s complicated, and ironically, it’s not truly…
Chris’ Corner: Fresh Type
I like the feeling of a good fresh typeface. Like design itself, type design has trends, and without being able to articulate it particularly well, I feel like I can feel a fresh type look…
Chris’ Corner: Naming, Tiles, and Simplicity
They say “naming things is hard” not because picking any ol’ name is hard, but because picking a useful, long-lasting, meaningful, understandable, deeply communicative name is hard. Screw it up and you can confuse yourself…
Chris’ Corner: Can Has Blurs, Filters, and Masks
You’ve seen CSS’ new :has() selector right? There are all these “basic” use cases that leave me smiling because the solutions of the past were inelegant at best, and now are easy and satisfying. Here’s…
Chris’ Corner: Things I Totally Didn’t Know About That I Learned From Taking the State of HTML 2023 Survey
Lea Verou helped craft the State of HTML 2023 Survey — the first of it’s kind! HTML, you say? What is there to ask? HTML isn’t exactly what I’d think of as a fast-moving technology.…
Chris’ Corner: Better CSS Animation
CSS animation rules. Just have a look at… CodePen lol. There was a (long) time when it didn’t exist, though. My old buddy Jonathan Snook wrote in 2007 that he didn’t like the idea of…