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A Guide To Newly Supported, Modern CSS Pseudo-Class Selectors

April 23, 2021 — The CSS Working Group Editor’s Draft for Selectors Level 4 includes several pseudo-class selectors that already have proposal candidates in most modern browsers. This guide will cover ones that currently have the best support along with examples to demonstrate how you can start using them today! Read more…

Andreas Altheimer wrote

The Guide To Ethical Scraping Of Dynamic Websites With Node.js And Puppeteer

March 11, 2021 — For a lot of web scraping tasks, an HTTP client is enough to extract a page’s data. However, when it comes to dynamic websites, a headless browser sometimes becomes indispensable. In this tutorial, we will build a web scraper that can scrape dynamic websites based on Node.js and Puppeteer. Read more…

Noam Rosenthal wrote

Should The Web Expose Hardware Capabilities?

January 5, 2021 — This article is a response to the Platform Adjacency Theory by Alex Russell, with specific takes on WebUSB and some alternative proposals for a way forward. Read more…

Stephanie Stimac wrote

Standardizing `<select>` And Beyond: The Past, Present And Future Of Native HTML Form Controls

November 18, 2020 — In this article, Stephanie dives into the past by going back to the beginning of HTML and tracing the evolution of form controls through to the present and the current state of working with them. Read more…

Rachel Andrew wrote

Native CSS Masonry Layout In CSS Grid

November 2, 2020 — There is now a specification for native CSS masonry layout, as part of the Grid Layout spec. In this article, Rachel Andrew explains how it works with the help of a couple of demos you can try out in Firefox Nightly. Read more…

Chidi Orji wrote

Managing Long-Running Tasks In A React App With Web Workers

October 15, 2020 — In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to use the Web Worker API to manage time-consuming and UI-blocking tasks in a JavaScript app by building a sample web app that leverages Web Workers. Read more…

Rachel Andrew wrote

Crowdfunding Web Platform Features With Open Prioritization

July 13, 2020 — Rachel Andrew takes a look at a new effort to crowdfund the costs of implementing browser features. Read more…

Rachel Andrew wrote

CSS News July 2020

July 7, 2020 — In this article, Rachel Andrew takes a look at some of the interesting CSS features that are making their way into browsers right now. Read more…

Adrian Bece wrote

A Practical Overview Of CSS Houdini

March 19, 2020 — In this article, we take a look at each part of Houdini, its current browser support, and see how they can be used today using progressive enhancement. Read more…

Barry Pollard wrote

Setting Height And Width On Images Is Important Again

March 9, 2020 — Thanks to some recent changes in browsers, it’s now well worth setting width and height attributes on your images to prevent layout shifts and improve the experience of your site visitors. Read more…