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Layer Cake: A Graphics Framework for Svelte — This library gives you a baseline for creating responsive web graphics via common elements (e.g. a coordinate system and scales). See numerous example components here.

CSS Text Fragment Selector (Please) — What could syntax for a CSS selector to jump to and highlight a block (or more) of text look like?

Some DevTools Tips and Tricks — Most devs barely scratch the surface of what DevTools can accomplish, says the author, who shares ten tips here.

My Favorite Animation Trick: Exponential Smoothing — Something as small as tweaking the acceleration curve of a UI element’s animations or scrolling can have a striking end result.

Classnames: Find Inspiration for Naming HTML Classes, CSS Properties, or JS Functions — This little resource is ostensibly to help with the common ‘naming things is hard’ problem in programming, offering thematically grouped lists of words with direct links to their meanings.

SVG Encoder: A Simple Tool to Convert SVG Into Different Formats, Ready for Use in CSS and HTML — The formats are things like URL encoded, Base64 encoded, optimized as a one-liner, no transforms, and other variations of those.

CSS Gradients: A Gallery of 275 'Click-to-Copy' CSS Gradients — Includes quite a few unique examples (i.e. not just two-color gradients) that you might find useful or simply for inspiration.

Anchor Position Tool — CSS anchor positioning is on the way, and one rather neat layout mechanism that’s part of the spec is inset-area. This (Chrome Canary only) demo from Una demonstrates how it works. It’s super early days for this (you can see the draft spec here) but it should prove rather powerful once widely available.

iOS404 — An overview of all of the missing web features in iOS. There’s over 60, and some of the missing features may surprise you (many are over a decade old).

Modern CSS Patterns in Campfire — Advancements in CSS, such as :has(), oklch(), and others allow developers to replace client- and server-side code with CSS properties, enabling behavior that was previously difficult to impossible, all without a framework.

Optimizing WebKit & Safari for Speedometer 3.0 — Speedometer 3.0 was introduced back in March, and now this post looks at what positive results the optimizations have bought about for Safari.

▶  New in Chrome 124: setHTMLUnsafe, Streams in WebSockets, & More — Plus here's a run down of what's new in DevTools for Chrome 124 too.

🗓️ Building Interactive Docs with the WebContainer API and StackBlitz SDK — Join StackBlitz's live stream later today on building interactive developer documentation.

CSS in React Server Components — An exploration of compatibility issues between React Server Components and CSS-in-JS libraries like styled-components, including what some of your options are and what’s coming in future.

Gap is the New Margin — Chris highlights how the use of the margin property is now on the decline, slowly.

What if You Had Real Control Over Light Mode / Dark Mode on a Per-Site Basis? — Bramus thinks that a dark mode toggle should be a browser-level feature, and notes that thanks to the Web Preferences API, that might become a reality someday.

Displaying HTML Web Components — A brief look at using display: contents to work around the issues with support for the is attribute in HTML.

Things That Can Break aspect-ratio in CSS — Three things that may break, or cause unexpected results, when using the aspect-ratio property.

Understanding Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — INP provides a much better representation of real-world performance by taking every part of an interaction and rendered response into account. It’s now a core web vital metric, so here’s what you need to know.

Asking Users for Their Pronouns: A Guide for UX Designers — “Designing a pronoun selector isn’t just about ticking a box for inclusivity, it’s about respecting your users.”

Introducing Jpegli: A New JPEG Coding Library — It claims to compress images 35% more than traditional JPEG codecs.

Neat: Create 3D Animated Gradients Powered by Three.js — After you install the package, you can use the interactive editor to create and edit the gradients before grabbing the code in JSON format.

Penpot 2.0 Release Is Out Now — Version 2.0 of this open-source design tool (for both design and code collaboration) is out now, adding Grid Layout support, components, inspection changes, a new UI, and more.

Folding the DOM — No, you can’t fold a DOM node in two, but Josh runs us through a neat technique to create a 3D letter folding effect using transform and perspective. It’s a React-specific tutorial, but the concepts would work in JS/CSS. The end result is slick, and you’ll learn something about 3D transforms and CSS animation along the way.