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Mark this down as one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a good long while. Nicholas Jitkoff has made a tool called itty.bitty that creates websites with all of the assets being contained within their own link. You can create a website without any HTML or CSS resources at all because it’s all been base64 encoded into the URL itself. Take this crazy looking URL, for example: https://itty.bitty.site/#How_it_works/XQAAAAJdDAAAAAAAAAAeHMqHyTY4PyKmqfkwr6ooCXSIMxPQ7ojYR153HqZD3W+keVdvwyoyd+luwncAksxo8PWJs+831jtAVty8rDpGXmyebtxMTP3PSa4g8/593sWue8WaPjJZKXPqJ+G6ffUrBFhdclCfPRZ1gVobusxdd5g4xI5328XhoOoeADUFQZMeRzfBVzcSlEdUqLcxhD5c7kYCBo79g1FR9+rRyw0U3Jyc+5Axt5HWUqKPcEBfQpO35dwvNhCOOZQ/83PRzl51VrpqJ+zwl7UT1JUUK24g/b9zCUO6EIGg1bcZW0VBL53SSK4LE+UkJNv3WKY04UQnISAISa4WghBZjXT5ID0S61leAohaQ9Kqkv6fGfZKI+...

Prototyping animations and interactions is vital for a number of reasons: they can make your interface feel deceptively fast, they can help focus the user on a specific task, and they can provide a better sense of the current state of your application. Is data being loaded? Is something now unclickable? How long do they have to wait until they can perform an action? At Gusto, I’ve been working on a lot of tiny interaction details and prototypes lately for these very reasons — sadly there’s not much that I can show you all in detail just yet. But, I think the process of how I’m doing this is far more interesting than what I’m actually working on so that's what I'm going to share here. The problem I’ve faced with prototyping animations comes down to the tools because they ultimately feel r...

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In Part 1 of this series, I debunked a few misconceptions that many people have around the Internet Explorer (IE) implementation of CSS grid. This article builds on that knowledge. It would be best to go back and read that article first if you haven’t already. Today I’m going to be tackling the biggest misconception of all: that utilizing the IE implementation of CSS grid is extremely difficult. You can easily use CSS grid in IE right now without having to give it any sort of crappy fallback layout. It really isn't that hard. Article Series: Debunking Common IE Grid Misconceptions CSS Grid and the new Autoprefixer (This Post) Faking an auto-placement grid with gaps (Coming Soon!) Giving IE a crappy fallback layout is a bit of a tough sell to clients. It...

My take on trying to be helpful to a support staff. One bit is just as relevant for learning development: Writing out a ticket will help you figure out the problem. Sometimes when you have to take a second to collect your thoughts and explain something, the problem will become clear and maybe even the solution. Oftentimes, a bug is a bug and just needs to be fixed — but sometimes your support ticket might actually be something you can sort out for yourself and writing things out might be the first step toward that. You know what they say, the best way to learn something is to teach it. Just replace "ticket" with "forum topic" or whatever, on something like Spectrum. Direct Link to Article — PermalinkThe post Writing Good Support Requests appeared first on CSS-Tricks. Source: CSS-tr...

There is this sentiment that you don't design the homepage of a site first. For most sites, it's an anomaly. It's unlike any other page and not something to base the patterns you use for the rest of the site or help inform other pages. You might call it a one-off.1 One-offs are OK! A world without one-offs is very boring. But a site chock-full of one-offs leads to familiar problems: inconsistency and non-reusable CSS that leads to bloating and maintainers that don't really know what's used and what isn't. What are we to do? Brad Frost thought about this recently with his article Where to put one-off components?: It’s quite likely that individual applications contain components that fit the very real needs of a specific application (think calculators, holiday-season parallax hero units, ...

There are a number of ways to go about putting some text in a container and having it size itself to fill that container. There are different technologies we can use and different considerations to think about. Let us count the ways. Magic Number it with viewport units If you set type with vw (viewport width) units, you can find an exact number where the text pretty closely fits the container and doesn't break as you resize. I'd call this a magic number. In this case, font-size: 25.5vw; works down to a 320px viewport, but still will break much lower than that. See the Pen Fitted Text with Viewport Units by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen. This is kind of a less exotic version of fluid typography, which involves more of a sprinkling of viewport units and min/max sizes. FitText Da...

There are a number of ways to go about putting some text in a container and having it size itself to fill that container. There are different technologies we can use and different considerations to think about. Let us count the ways. Magic Number it with viewport units If you set type with vw (viewport width) units, you can find an exact number where the text pretty closely fits the container and doesn't break as you resize. I'd call this a magic number. In this case, font-size: 25.5vw; works down to a 320px viewport, but still will break much lower than that. See the Pen Fitted Text with Viewport Units by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen. This is kind of a less exotic version of fluid typography, which involves more of a sprinkling of viewport units and min/max sizes. FitText Da...

One of the cool things about <svg> is that it's literally its own document, so @media queries in CSS inside the SVG are based on its viewport rather than the HTML document that likely contains it. This unique feature has let people play around for years. Tim Kadlec experimented with SVG formats and which ones respect the media queries most reliably. Sara Soueidan experimented with that a bunch more. Jake Archibald embedded a canvas inside and tested cross-browser compatibility that way. Estelle Weyl used that ability to do responsive images before responsive images. Another thing that has really tripped people's triggers is using that local media query stuff to make responsive logos. Most famously Joe Harrison's site, but Tyler Sticka, Jeremy Frank, and Chris Austin all had a go as w...