Printing music with CSS grid
Laying out sheet music with CSS grid—sounds extreme until you see it abstracted into a web component.
We need fluid and responsive music rendering for the web!
The perfect responsive menu (2019) | Polypane responsive browser
I don’t know about “perfect” but this pretty much matches how I go about implementing responsive navigation (but only if there are too many links to show—visible navigation is almost always preferable).
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Utopia WCAG warnings | Trys Mudford
Wouldn’t it be great if all web tools gave warnings like this?
As you generate and tweak your type scale, Utopia will now warn you if any steps fail WCAG SC 1.4.4, and tell you between which viewports the problem lies.
Extending Responsive Video with HTML Web Components | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
Scott gives a thorough step-by-step walkthrough of building an HTML web component, in this case for responsive video:
In this post, I’m going to talk briefly about responsive video, but most of the post will be about using HTML web components to extend native video behavior in very helpful ways. But even if you’re not particularly interested in video development, stick around as I’ll demonstrate how to build an HTML Web Component to progressively enhance anything you need.
Sizes=”auto” pretty much requires width and height attributes — ericportis.com
Huh! I did not know this. Good to know!
On Container Queries, Responsive Images, and JPEG-XL – Cloud Four
Container queries can’t be used in the sizes attribute for responsive images. Here, Jason breaks down why that is (spoiler: it’s the lookahead pre-parser) and segues into a truly long term solution: a “magical” image format.
If you’ve ever thought it felt weird to put media conditions inside the HTML for responsive images, this will resonate.
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How Clearleft worked with the Chrome team to create a fifteen-part course on modern responsive design.
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Another five articles on modern responsive web design.
Writing on web.dev
A new free course on responsive web design.
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Houdini to the rescue?
Progressing the web
Don’t let the name distract you—progressive web apps are for everyone.