It’s always interesting to read/hear about technologies that didn’t make it. Sometimes the competitors that fall are legitimately flawed or lessor than the eventual winner. Other times, the winner isn’t always the best, but wins out regardless. CSS is somewhere in between those two things.
It’s also cool to see places where CSS inherited, borrowed and improved on other technologies and proposals.
Source: Eager.io – The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
Two of my favorite things in one: Back to the Future and front end development – specifically CSS. There’s no JS — even for the flux capacitor’s fluxing.
We’ve all been asynchronously loading JavaScript for many years, but it hadn’t even occurred to me to asynchronously load CSS to speed up (and give even more perceptively speed) for that initial load and render. Like most things in the front end world, there are multiple ways to do it, but the article linked below shows an easy way to do it.
CSS Tricks continues to be my favorite and go-to for all things CSS and front-end. Years ago, I discovered the […]
This is a cool little combination of CSS and JavaScript to have a small list grid item image transition to its full-size version of the image in its final positioned spot.
The hamburger menu isn’t going away anytime soon — neither on mobile nor desktop web designs and development. Line25 published […]
What comes around goes around, right? A lot of these animated loaders done mainly with CSS harken back to the […]