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Discoveries #17 - CSS

  • Easing Functions Cheat Sheet
  • A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors
  • Container Queries in Web Components
  • Multi Color Text With CSS
  • Conditional Border Radius In CSS
  • Icons in Pure CSS
  • parallax.css
  • Defensive CSS
  • How to Create a CSS-Only Loader Using One Element
  • Getting Your head Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet

Easing Functions Cheat Sheet

by Andrey Sitnik & Ivan Solovev 
https://github.com/ai/easings.net

Ever wanted to implement an easing function in CSS and dont know how? Andrey and Ivan provide a really useful web project via Github, with the code of 30 easing function, including samples and the math functions behind. Download or fork and run locally or simply use this gitpod Link.

Easing Functions Cheat Sheet

A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

by Barry Pollard 
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/reduce-font-loading-impact-css-descriptors/

Barry gives an insight into the modern use of web fonts, hints on how to use font-display and an outlook on how everything could be better in the future.

A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

Container Queries in Web Components

by Max Böck 
https://mxb.dev/blog/container-queries-web-components/

Container Queries are one of the most anticipated new features in CSS and Max gives an insight into the possibilities, including a demo.

Container Queries in Web Components

Multi Color Text With CSS

by Shireen Taj 
https://codepen.io/TajShireen/full/YzZmbep

UI developer Shireen has made a wonderful sample on CodePen on how to show text in multile colors using linear gradient backgrounds.

Multi Color Text With CSS

Conditional Border Radius In CSS

by Ahmad Shaheed 
https://ishadeed.com/article/conditional-border-radius/

CSS expert Ahmad shows us a smart way to provide different border radius regarding the size of an object in the viewport, he has learned from the facebook developers.

Conditional Border Radius In CSS

Icons in Pure CSS

by Anthony Fu 
https://antfu.me/posts/icons-in-pure-css

Anthony has found a clever way on combining the icon framework iconify with CSS, to save the use of icon fonts and deliver pure SVG instead.

Icons in Pure CSS

parallax.css

by Matyanson 
https://github.com/Matyanson/parallax.css/

Github user ‘Matyanson’ has written a CSS package for using parallax effects easily on every website.

parallax.css

Defensive CSS

by Ahmad Shaheed 
https://ishadeed.com/article/defensive-css/

In order to prevent pittfalls, you have to use CSS wisely. Ahmad show us some techniques on how to write defensive and thus protected code.

Defensive CSS

How to Create a CSS-Only Loader Using One Element

by Temani Afif 
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-a-css-only-loader

Loaders are everywhere and many of them are based on images or SVG. But this does not have to be, as Temani finds. CSS is perfectly sufficient for this.

How to Create a CSS-Only Loader Using One Element

Getting Your head Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet

by Vitaly Friedman 
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/09/css-head-tag/

Chrome Debugger has tons of possibilities to ensure to find performance bottlenecks or other discrepancies. Vitaly brings us closer a little snippet that Harry Roberts wrote, which exposes potential performance issues in your page’s <head> tag: ct.css.

Getting Your head Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet

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