Šime Vidas
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Everything You Need to Know About the Gap After the List Marker
I was reading “Creative List Styling” on Google’s web.dev blog and noticed something odd in one of the code examples in the ::marker section of the article. → Read More
How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Timeline
CSS Scroll Snap allows websites to snap the web page or any other scroll container to a specific scroll position when the user performs a scrolling operation. → Read More
When to Avoid the text-decoration Shorthand Property
In my recent article about CSS underline bugs in Chrome, I discussed text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset, two relatively new and → Read More
CSS Underlines Are Too Thin and Too Low in Chrome
I’ve encountered two bugs in Chrome while testing the new CSS text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset properties, and I want to share them with → Read More
Firefox’s `bolder` Default is a Problem for Variable Fonts
Variable fonts make it easy to create a large set of font styles from a single font file. Unfortunately, the default rendering of the and → Read More
Custom State Pseudo-Classes in Chrome
There is an increasing number of “custom” features on the web platform. We have custom properties (--my-property), custom elements (), → Read More
Platform News: Rounded Outlines, GPU-Accelerated SVG Animations, How CSS Variables Are Resolved
In the news this week, Firefox gets rounded outlines, SVG animations are now GPU-accelerated in Chrome, there are no physical units in CSS, The New York → Read More
Platform News: Defaulting to Logical CSS, Fugu APIs, Custom Media Queries, and WordPress vs. Italics
Looks like 2021 is the time to start using CSS Logical Properties! Plus, Chrome recently shipped a few APIs that have raised eyebrows, SVG allows us to → Read More
Weekly Platform News: Reduced Motion, CORS, WhiteHouse.gov, popups, and 100vw
In this week's roundup, we highlight a proposal for a new element, check the use of prefers-reduced-motion on award-winning sites, learn how → Read More
Weekly Platform News: WebKit autofill, Using Cursor Pointer, Delaying Autoplay Videos
In this week's roundup, WebKit's prefixed autofill becomes a standard, the pointer cursor is for more than just links, and browsers are jumping on board → Read More
Weekly Platform News: The :not() pseudo-class, Video Media Queries, clip-path: path() Support
Hey, we're back with weekly updates about the browser landscape from Šime Vidas. In this week's update, the CSS :not pseudo class can accept complex → Read More
Weekly Platform News: Layout Shifts, Stalled High-Bitrate Videos, Screenshots in Firefox
In this week's roundup: fighting shifty layouts, some videos might be a bit stalled, and a new way to take screenshots in Firefox. Let's get into the → Read More
Weekly Platform News: Emoji String Length, Issues with Rounded Buttons, Bundled Exchanges
In this week's roundup, the string length of two emojis is not always equal, something to consider before making that rounded button, and we may have a → Read More
Weekly Platform News: Text Spacing Bookmarklet, Top-Level Await, New AMP Loading Indicator
In this week's roundup, a handy bookmarklet for inspecting typography, using await to tinker with how JavaScript modules import one another, plus → Read More
Weekly Platform News: CSS font-style: oblique, webhin browser extension, CSS Modules V1
In this week's roundup, variable fonts get oblique, a new browser extension for linting, and the very first version of CSS Modules. Use font-style: → Read More
Weekly Platform News: Event Timing, Google Earth for Web, undead session cookies
In this week's news, Wikipedia helps identify three slow click handlers, Google Earth comes to the web, SVG properties in CSS get more support, and what to do in the event of zombie cookies. → Read More
Weekly Platform News: Mozilla’s AV1 Encoder, Samsung One UI CSS, DOM Matches Method
In this week's weekly roundup, Vimeo and Mozilla partner up on a video encoding format, how to bind instructions to to form fields using aria labels, the DOM has a matching function, and Samsung is working on its own CSS library. → Read More
Weekly Platform News: CSS Scroll Snap, Opera GX, PWA Install Icon
In this week's roundup, Chrome is adding an install option for Progressive Web Apps, Opera GX comes to Windows, the ECMAScript proposals get an update, and CSS Scroll Snap is coming to a Firefox browser near you. → Read More
Weekly Platform News: Feature Policy, ECMAScript i18n API, Packaged PWAs
Šime posts regular content for web developers on webplatform.news. New Feature Policy API in Chrome Pete LePage: You can use the → Read More
Weekly Platform News: Favicon Guidelines, Accessibility Testing, Web Almanac
In this week's news, Google defines guidelines for favicons, a new a11y testing tool from The Paciello Group, and changes to how the W3C plans to engage the community, plus more. → Read More