It’s almost Safari 17 time! That marks two major Safari versions that support container queries, and while being a small step for mankind, it is a major leap in those projects that require two major version support to take advantage of new CSS features! And that counts my project, so container queries, here we come! This month’s issue is all about what’s up with CSS.
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Antti is a software developer who deeply cares about the open web. He’s been building backends, SPAs, and multi-page apps (also known as “websites”) for the last 15 years or so. During his free time, he finds himself goofing around with his kid and fixing the house; but before the kid and the house, there was gaming, guitars, podcasting (check out here), and woodworking.
“CSS is now the most powerful design tool for the Web”. These words have rung in my head ever since I read that article. And it’s true! Figma and friends are always playing catch-up and inventing their own ways of creating tools for designers to allow them to communicate their ideas with the developers. But in the end, what is created are mostly static pictures.
The iconic Cover Flow animation, implemented with just CSS. Nuff said. OK not enough said, actually a very very cool new feature that allows throwing another huge bag’s worth of hacks and JS away, and ends up with a far more performant and controllable way of attaching animations to the scroll position!!!
Next on my hit list, on my “simplify everything” rampage that I’ve been on for a while now, are all kinds of ways to generate CSS in favor of just…writing CSS. I now use CSS modules mainly because it’s such a nice way to handle scoping, but guess what? Scoping is coming to CSS, natively!
OK, so hands down one of the funnest new features coming to CSS: view transitions! Yet another reason to look into Astro, Eleventy and friends instead of Next.js for building smooth web experiences. Control the transition between web pages… with just CSS? How cool is that! (Also again, “multi-page apps”? Websites, yo!)
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