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The Future of Style aggregates posts from various blogs that talk about the development of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) [not development with Cascading Style Sheets]. While it is hosted by the W3C CSS Working Group, the content of the individual entries represent only the opinion of their respective authors and does not reflect the position of the CSS Working Group or the W3C.
The Code conference is upon us this week! Monday Profile is again with one of our international speakers, Yoav Weiss.
Yoav is a Web performance and browser internals specialist, whose talk at Code focuses on third party content on websites, mitigating its impact on performance and security, and its longer term implications.
This interview is also in the second issue of our Scroll Magazine.
Q What made you decide you could do this for a living?
A I grew up in Israel where software development is the major industry. So, before I started higher education, I decided to work for a while to save up some money that would help me get myself through school. With software being the major (if not only) non-minimum-wage option, I started working as a software tester, picked up programming while doing that, and moved to software development a few weeks later.
I found it to be extremely fun and creative and I loved the problem solving part of it. Before I knew it, I was deep in the trenches in a software engineer position.
Took me few more years to actually take some time off in order to go to school and complete a Computer Science B.Sc.
Q Have you ever coded live on stage, or in front of an audience? How did it go?
A No, I have not. I don't think that my typing skills are up for the task. If I had to demonstrate code on stage, I'd probably use a pre-recorded video.
Q How do you further develop and extend your skills? Books, courses? Noodling by yourself?
A I read professional books from time to time, but most of my reading is done online. A large chunk of my work day (and evenings) is dedicated to reading the latest blog posts, standards discussions and specification changes. Whenever I encounter a new subject that I need to study, I usually tackle it with a mix of tutorial reading and playing around with it in practice.
Q Is it better to learn HTML then CSS then JavaScript, or JavaScript then HTML then CSS, or all three at once, or something else?
A HTML is the foundation upon which the web is built, and it's certainly not advised to reimplement basic HTML functionality in JavaScript. So, if your job is to build Web pages, you probably want to learn the foundations first, starting from HTML, then CSS and then JavaScript.
That way you can be sure that you're tackling the problems you encounter with the right tools for the job, creating page components with HTML, styling them with CSS and adding functionality on top of that using JavaScript.
Q What's the best way to get more women coding?
A I think the real question is how do we avoid discouraging the women and other under-represented groups about to enter the field from feeling marginalized and unwelcome. To me, the key is to create welcoming and "noob-friendly" environments. Many projects use the "meritocracy" narrative in order to justify shitty behaviour to people new to the project, or to people in general.
That behaviour is particularly hostile to women and other under-represented groups, but at the end of the day, it's bad for everyone. No-one likes to have to take verbal abuse as part of their work, and certainly not as part of their off-hours open source participation.
I believe that a code of conduct with clear rules regarding unacceptable behaviour and strict enforcement of those rules helps everyone, enables everyone to express themselves, and encourages new people of all kinds to participate.
Q Frameworks. What's your take? Are they good, bad or does it depend on how you use them?
A Frameworks help speed up development and have certain UX advantages, but they often do that at the expense of our users. Our users often have to run more code on their machines than necessary, which can be taxing for both loading and runtime performance. Especially today, when more and more of our users are on mobile devices, the performance price of frameworks must be taken into account when deciding to use them.
At the same time, the wide use and popularity of frameworks indicates that there's a need for the abstraction they provide. As someone working on browsers and the Web platform, I give a lot of thought to that subject. I'm hoping that one day we can figure out a way to provide the UX and development ease of frameworks as part of the platform itself.
Q Tabs or spaces?
A Vim.
Q What's on your horizon?
A I plan to continue working on browsers and their performance-related features, at least until I feel that loading performance is no longer an issue. I don't think that will happen anytime soon :)
Another issue that's close to my heart is getting more people involved in Web standards and browser work, which is why I took on co-chairing the Web Platform Incubation Community Group (or WICG for short). So I intend to continue to do what I can in order to make "getting involved" as painless a process as possible.
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At Respond this year, Jen Simmons gave a very well received session on the current state of CSS layout. A great deal is now possible that never has been before with flexbox, and even more is in the pipeline with Grid layouts.
We finally have the tools necessary to create amazing page designs on the web. Now we can art direct our layouts, leveraging the power and tradition of graphic design. In this eye-opening talk, Jen explores concrete examples of an incredible range of new possibilities.
She walks through a step-by-step design process for figuring out how to create a layout as unique as your content. You'll learn how Flexbox, Grid, Shapes, Multicolumn, Viewport Units, and more can be combined together to revolutionize how you approach the page — any page.
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Modals and pop-ups can be a really useful tool for displaying
additional information or getting users to enter information in a
way that doesn't clutter up your screen. However as yet (one coming
soon) there is no official HTML element that lets us display modals
in a consistent way. As a result screen readers, such as JAWS and
NVDA, have a hard time reading them resulting in a lot of pop-ups
not being accessible to people with disabilities.
In this week's video ristretto, Rhiana Heath looks at how to make modals accessible for people who use screen readers. This uses a combination of ARIA attributes and hidden text to speak with the screen reader. As well as helping of JavaScript to help with some custom keyboard control. All while keeping a pleasing look and feel for all users using JavaScript and CSS.
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Monday Profile today again shares an interview we conducted with a Code conference speaker.
You'll find all these interviews (and a lot more!) in the second issue of our Scroll Magazine.
This week, it's with Rachel Andrew, whose talk and workshop on CSS Grid Layouts should be a conference highlight.
Q What made you decide you could do this for a living?
A Despite being the daughter of a programmer, I had no intention of working with computers. I trained in dance and music theatre and I was convinced that my future lay in the theatre somewhere. Life had different ideas and I began building websites when pregnant with my daughter in late 1996. By the time she was three years old I was proficient enough to be offered a job in a dot com company. I'm curious about how things work and not afraid to play, experiment and get things wrong. That, coupled with an ability for unpicking complex problems, has made up for my lack of formal training in computer science – though I sometimes find myself searching for the definition of something that everyone else seems to know already!
The web is a great place to work for the polymath. Most of us aren't sitting in cubicles working on small parts of systems – we get to build large chunks, sometimes even entire experiences. I love that there is always something new to learn and it might be in a completely different area to the last thing I studied.
Q Have you ever coded live on stage, or in front of an audience? How did it go?
A I'm not a fan of live coding in presentations, unless the presenter is truly exceptional at it. There are a few people who really have this skill, however much live coding results in fumbling through examples – often with the audience yelling out corrections to the presenter's typos! In presentations of an hour or less I prefer to have my code on slides, that I can then talk about. I often link to fully worked examples for the audience to take a look at later. This approach lets me craft a talk of the right length that hits the things I want to share with the audience.
In my day-long workshops I do live code, however I begin with a set of starting point files on CodePen, and we work together to build out the examples. I try to keep the typing to the minimum required to show the techniques – partly to focus on what we are learning but partly for self-preservation. Three years ago I shattered my elbow and have about 30% use of my dominant hand. Typing all day is pretty difficult for me, so I try and keep the examples streamlined.
Q How do you further develop and extend your skills? Books, courses? Noodling by yourself?
A I attend a lot of conferences, I enjoy seeing talks that are on areas I don't do so much myself. I'm a developer, so it is interesting to sit in on a design talk; I'm not someone who uses JavaScript frameworks such as React, so it is interesting to sit in on a React or Angular talk. I find different approaches make me think about the things I do in a different way.
In terms of CSS, I mostly learn by reading the specifications and building examples. Even where no browser implementation exists, I'll usually build examples just to clarify how it is supposed to work in my own mind. That is where a lot of my work on CSS Grid started – I was building examples of something that didn't yet exist in any browser and then as implementations appeared I could see if what I thought was the case, actually worked!
Q Is it better to learn HTML then CSS then JavaScript, or JavaScript then HTML then CSS, or all three at once, or something else?
A HTML and CSS, then JavaScript. You need to understand the DOM and the presentation layer that is CSS before you start using JavaScript to manipulate it. In addition, there is so much now that is part of CSS that traditionally we would have had to use JavaScript for – it is worth making sure that you aren't using JavaScript for something we have a perfectly useful CSS property for.
Q What's the best way to get more women coding?
A I'm not sure I have a good answer to that, however I mentioned that my father is a programmer. He was a programmer all through my childhood and worked at Newcastle University in the UK. We would sometimes go visit him at the computing lab, and there I took away the impression that programmers were mostly women. It was women I spoke to, sat amongst the giant whirring computers. It never occurred to me that this wasn't a job for someone like me.
I think having role models who represent the different reasons why people get into this field has to be a positive thing. Some people are genuinely interested in code, in and of itself. Others are perhaps more interested in running a business, creating products – and writing code is just the route to being able to do that. For young people to see that is I think important, and as important for young men as well as young women.
Q Frameworks. What's your take? Are they good, bad or does it depend on how you use them?
From that point, you need to look at the business requirements for the thing you are building. How much time have you available? What are the upsides of using a framework, what are the downsides? Does one outweigh the other? You can usually fairly easily make those decisions, and then be in a good position to address any potential downsides with your choice.
My real concern with frameworks is that a complete reliance on tools and frameworks is creating abstractions to the extent that people are unable to engage with the underlying languages. This means they struggle to debug issues, as they don't understand how to create a reduced test case without the involvement of the tool. It also means that they don't butt up against places where our core specifications are lacking. I'd love for more people to be looking at the CSS specs for example and asking "why can't we do x?" If folk are always working with an abstraction they are less likely to do that, instead just working with what their favourite tool gives them.
Q Tabs or spaces?
A I really don't care. Be consistent with the rest of your team. There are better things to worry about.
Q What's on your horizon?
A A lot of travel! I'm speaking at several conferences about Grid Layout and related CSS specifications. We've also got a bunch of exciting things planned for my CMS product Perch and Perch Runway. Lots to do – but I like it that way!
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It's only a few weeks until this year's Code conference, so Monday Profile is going to start sharing some of the interviews with our presenters you'll see in our Scroll: Code magazine.
We're going to start with Tim Kadlec, web technology advocate at Akamai, and someone who knows more about the intersection of performance & responsive design than probably anyone around.
Tim's Code session will focus on giving users the feeling that their web experiences are fast and friction-free. Let's find out a bit about him.
Q What made you decide you could do this for a living?
A In junior high, I saw a magazine at a local store that promised to teach you HTML for maybe $6, so I bought it and read it cover to cover. I honestly wasn't that interested in web development. I liked to write, particularly about the history of basketball at that time, and wanted to be able to publish articles online. So I used the information in that magazine to build a very basic site full of all sorts of obnoxious animated GIFs, where I could write articles about basketball. Occasionally, I helped someone in town put together something simple as well.
In college, I found an ad for an agency that was looking for an entry level web developer. At that point, it had never occurred to me that I could do this as a full-time job, but I called up and scheduled an interview. I basically faked my way through the whole thing. When they offered me the job, I ran to the book store and bought a few books: Designing with Web Standards, Meyer on CSS, DOM Scripting and one or two more.
That weekend, all I did was read and code. By the time Monday came around I was at least OK enough to do the work (luckily, the agency wasn't doing anything very advanced). Before long, I was hooked.
Q Have you ever coded live on stage, or in front of an audience? How did it go?
A No, never. I've seen a lot of people live code, but I can count on one hand the number of people I've seen do it well. I would definitely not be one of them. I'm guessing watching me make typo after typo for 45 minutes wouldn't be particularly interesting to folks.
Q How do you further develop and extend your skills? Books, courses? Noodling by yourself?
A Videos, blog posts and books are certainly a part of it. I stubbornly hold onto my RSS feed and download a ton of talks to my computer to watch whenever I have a spare moment. The reading and video watching doesn't do much if you don't practise, so firing open a browser and seeing what you can build and what you can break is important.
But if I had to say one thing more than any other that helps me, it's that I am constantly bothering people smarter than myself with questions. Anytime I have an idea to bounce off someone, or run into something that doesn't make sense, I fire off an email or send a message. We have a lot of smart people in our industry who are willing to share their knowledge — it'd be silly not to take advantage of it.
Q Is it better to learn HTML then CSS then JavaScript, or JavaScript then HTML then CSS, or all three at once, or something else?
A I learned it that way: HTML, CSS then JavaScript. That's how I teach it to others as well. Markup is your base and everything else is layered on top of that, so to me it makes sense to teach the base first. As long as you start with the vanilla versions of each though, I think you're probably OK. Jumping into a framework right away obscures a lot of core knowledge and at the end of the day it's the core knowledge that will help you best adapt to new technologies.
Q What's the best way to get more women coding?
A I'm not really qualified to provide the best advice here. If you really want to know how to make our industry a more welcome space for women, ask them. Listen to what they have to say and ask for clarification on things you don't understand. There's a lot we can do to make our community a friendly, safer space and I think it starts with being willing to listen.
Q Frameworks. What's your take? Are they good, bad or does it depend on how you use them?
A It all depends. That's the boring answer, but it's true. I think it's incredibly important to know the core language first—CSS before Sass, JavaScript before jQuery—but there's nothing inherently bad about frameworks themselves. Abstractions can be useful, if applied with care.
The problem I see with them in our industry is the number of people who blindly reach for them, applying framework after framework without realizing what they're giving up in the process. You don't always need a framework, and if you understand the core, you'll be able to tell the difference between when you don't and when you do.
Q Tabs or spaces?
A Tabs, but not enough to have any sort of serious debate about them. More like the kind of debate you have with friends late one night when everyone involved has had a few drinks.
Q What's on your horizon?
A The sun.
For the web, there's plenty of stuff that has me excited: service workers (which I still don't think we've even scratched the surface of) and the physical web stuff come to mind right away. I'm interested to see how we handle the challenges of truly going global as we adjust our sites and applications for different markets, as well as the challenge of reducing our impact on the CPU.
Someone smarter than me pointed out that we're increasingly becoming CPU bound in terms of performance, not network bound. It's true, and it's not necessarily something that has been true for very long. It'll be interesting to see how we adjust for that new reality that we've created with loads of images and scripts.
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Jen Simmons hosts the very popular The Web Ahead podcast, is on the W3C CSS Working Group, works as a design advocate at Mozilla, and has 20 years working on sites for the likes of CERN, the W3C and Google.
Her current focus is layout for the Web, in particular new layout capabilities in CSS, like Flexbox and Grid, about which she speaks and writes extensively, and about which she spoke at our recent Respond conference. While Jen was in Sydney we sat down and spoke about these new layout capabilities of the Web, how being always connected changes the way our social networks have changed, and much more. It was a long, but very enjoyable chat, and I hope you enjoy it.
As always, the transcript is below, and you can find more video conversations in this recent series, including with
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For Scroll: Respond, we asked several presenters if they'd like to write an article based on or somehow related to their conference presentation.
We're going to do the same with Scroll: Code, to be distributed at our Code conference (you're going, right?), and for the next few weeks, we're going to post a few of those articles here as Idea of the Week.
First cab off the rank is Fiona Chan, former front end dev and lately Technical Recruiter at Lookahead Search, and one of the organisers of the SydCSS meetup group.
Fiona's article is on "linting" … but we'll let her explain.
In my presentation for Code 2016, CSS: Code Smell Sanitation, I talk about how to keep your CSS clean and free of errors. Most of the techniques I talk about are applied when everything looks right and has passed linting.
Now, I'm looking forward to telling you more about that, but it occurred to me that I've assumed everyone knows about linting.
Maybe that's not the case. And it's important that people who haven't heard of it before, and therefore haven't used it, feel comfortable about learning about it.
So I'm going to write a bit here about linting, and specifically CSSLint.
Broadly, a lint tool performs static analysis of source code and flags patterns that might be errors or otherwise cause problems for the developer. Static analysis is when code is checked without actually being activated, as opposed to dynamic analysis when the software is running.
But linting has a history.
Back in the late 1970s, Stephen C. Johnson first developed Lint as a Unix tool that examined C language source code and pointed out code that might contain errors or be structurally unsound.
It appeared in public in 1979 in Unix v.7, as part of the Portable C Compiler.
The name comes from the textile fibres that accumulate on clothing and other material. If you do laundry, you'll know lint. There's also belly button lint – let's not go there.
To clean lint off a jumper or skirt, you might use a lint brush, a tool designed for that purpose. Jonhson's Lint utility was like a lint brush for C, picking up code that looked messy or badly structured.
From then on, most computer language compilers had a lint checker of some kind built in.
Nowadays, lint checkers are tools that look for structural or syntactical discrepancies code in any language. For JavaScript there's JSLint, for Python there's Pylint and for CSS there's CSSLint.
CSSLint is an open source CSS code quality tool originally written by Nicholas C. Zakas and Nicole Sullivan, released in 2011.
As the authors say:
CSS Lint points out problems with your CSS code. It does basic syntax checking as well as applying a set of rules to the code that look for problematic patterns or signs of inefficiency. The rules are all pluggable, so you can easily write your own or omit ones you don't want.
The idea is that you choose which rules to apply and which problems to look for.
This shows you both the comprehensiveness and the flexibility of CSSLint. You can see exactly what rules are being checked, and you can choose to implement them or not.
Apart from anything else, it's incredibly useful to have a checklist of what can and does go wrong in CSS.
It is, of course, really confronting to be told everything that's wrong with the CSS you wrote. It looked OK last time you went over it, right?
But this is the kind of step you need to take and the kind of check you need to make – to avoid errors, to enhance site manageability and to improve page performance.
It also doesn't take long before many of these things stick in your head and you already address them as you work.
CSSLint is not without its critics. Their criticisms are mostly focused on CSSLint "enforcing" rules that they feel inhibit creativity, or limit ingenuity, or are vague and arbitrary, or encourage bad practice.
In my view, these criticisms are – by and large – not well-founded.
The point of CSSLint is not to enforce any kind of policy or practice, nor is to clean your code for you. It's designed to point out possible issues you might want to address, according to a set of rules you customise for yourself and your site.
Even if you turn off all the rules, CSSLint is a great basic syntax checker, without having to look at validation issues. Sometimes, you just want – or need – to know that your CSS works.
So, now when you come to my presentation (that's CSS: Code Smell Sanitation, 3.10pm on Day 1) you'll know what I'm talking about when I talk about what still needs to be checked after linting – the things even CSSLint might not catch – to keep your code smelling good.
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I really enjoyed these conversations we did with speakers at Respond a few weeks back, and I'm equally enjoying returning to them, editing them a little, and listening to what these wise, intelligent and generous contributors to our field have to say.
If you've missed them to date, take a bit of time to listen to conversations with
But this week we have the very first one I recorded, which I feel is entirely fitting. It's with Russ Weakley, a huge contributor to the Web design profession not just here in Australia, but globally. It's particularly fitting since Russ, Maxine Sherrin, Peter Firminger and I together started an event called Web Essentials back in 2004, that became Web Directions.
We talked about accessibility, about how the role of what we now call front end developers (or do we?) has changed in the time, and what the future holds for us as Web professionals. There's the obligatory discussion about voice interfaces, jetpacks and the future of interaction, and much more. I hope you enjoy this really great conversation with Russ Weakley.
If you'd like to know more about Russ, we featured him in our Monday Profile this week, or why not grab a copy of the digital edition of Scroll Magazine, where the profile also appears?
And lastly, if reading's more your thing, there's a full transcript below.
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An updated version of the Unicode Character Converter web app is now available. This app allows you to convert characters between various different formats and notations.
Significant changes include the following:
Many thanks to the people who wrote in with suggestions.
Jessica delivered a very well-received presentation at Respond 16 on advanced CSS image techniques, rather precociously titled "Farewell, Photoshop". A section of this talk focused on using Blend Modes in CSS, and Jess wrote us an article on that for Scroll Magazine.
Since CSS blend modes were also mentioned in a couple of other presenters' talks, we figured it was worth giving the topic a bit of extra love by making it our Idea of the Week.
You can also read Jessica's article in the first edition of our rebooted Scroll Magazine.
Generally, when two or more pixels overlap, our screen just shows us the pixel that's on top. If our topmost pixel has a luminosity value of 1 (white), and a pixel below it has a luminosity of 0 (black), we generally only care about the information we can get from the topmost pixel.
Rather than let perfectly good pixels go to waste, we can opt to blend our topmost pixel with those below it. The information from the black pixel suddenly becomes useful. If you want the darkest pixel to show, you can compare the pixel's luminosity values and return the lowest value.
Alternatively, you could multiply these values together, and get an entirely different pixel. Scale this to dozens, hundreds, or thousands of pixels, and the result is an entirely different image!
Rather than getting our hands dirty and performing these
calculations ourselves, CSS has been kind enough to give us 16
keywords, each representing a
‹blend-mode›. Each
‹blend-mode› is defined in the W3C Compositing and
Blending Specification, but if you've ever used Adobe Photoshop,
they will be very familiar.
While each blend mode carries out unique operations, they can be broadly categorised by their resulting effect:
Each blend mode works in the same way as Photoshop, too. This isn't an accident: Adobe played a very active role in shaping the Compositing and Blending Specification, and subsequently bringing blend modes to the web. Remember to thank Adobe when you cancel your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription!
background-blend-mode property can be used on
all HTML elements. This property allows us to blend the layers of
an element's background. To get started, you will need an element
with at least one
‹image› provided via the
background or
properties. With just one
background-image, you will
only notice an effect if you have provided a
to the
background-color property (because otherwise it
has nothing to blend with).
background: url('image.jpg'),
background-blend-mode: exclusion;
Rather than blend with a block of color, we can blend images as well, by specifying multiple images in our background.
background: url('top-image.jpg'),
background-blend-mode: lighten;
Just like you can provide a series of comma separated
‹image› values to
can specify different
‹blend-mode› values to
background-blend-mode. This applies
lighten to the first image, and
darken to
the second image. Whilst we have three layers, the bottom most
layer does not have anything to blend with, so there is no need to
provide a third
background: url('top-image.jpg'),
background-blend-mode: lighten, darken;
You can use this property on any element, which means they can
be used with SVG elements in addition to HTML elements. Whilst
background-blend-mode restricts blending to within the
mix-blend-mode blends different elements
img {
mix-blend-mode: multiply;
Replicating Prototype Functionality
Perhaps the most obvious use case for blending is directly replicating a prototype given to you that uses blends. If you or a team member are comfortable with Photoshop, there is a large chance you will come across a prototype with blending between layers. Every 9/10 prototypes I come across are Photoshop files- people will use If you export an asset with a blend mode, it will not look the same in the browser.
If the visual result is not drastically different, you can tell yourself on that no-one will notice – but sooner or later, you won't be so lucky. I had a fairly good run, up until a certain airline logo.
In the provided prototype, the logo casts a shadow behind it. Once exported, the result is considerably different:
Previously, if you had come across this issue, you had a few options:
1. You, or whoever built the prototype, can go back and change the original design. Compromising on a design (especially when you don't have to!) is frustrating in and of itself;slowing down the build time and waiting on a resolution is more so. In this situation, the prototype was provided by another company entirely.
2. Rather than compromising the initial design, you can export both the initial asset, as well as any affected layers. The design remains intact, but potentially at the expense of the end user:more layers = larger size, more colours = higher file size. Using images of entire scenes also means that even trivial changes such as layout require a trip to an image-editing program.
But, now we have blend modes! If your prototype uses one of 16
blend modes, you're in luck- you don't have to make this choice
anymore. We can simply export our asset and apply the appropriate
‹blend-mode›, rather than interrupt the development
Better Backgrounds
When I first started working in front-end development, backgrounds were a major pain point for me.A background takes up a huge part of your page, and whilst those beautiful, high resolution backgrounds with ~343898 colours can help set the tone of the page, I would just see hundreds of kilobytes.
You could lower the file size by repeating the background image, but getting one to tile perfectly can be difficult to achieve. If the user instantly recognises a poorly executed pattern, their focus has been taken away from your content. It felt like a lose-lose situation.
Nowadays, I'm much more excited by backgrounds! A very popular technique for textured backgrounds is through overlaying noise. Tiled noise by itself can be boring and as mentioned,when it is obviously repeated, it can be distracting. If we blend a small, tiled data-uri with a gradient, even when our image repeats, no tile is identical. We can have a rich, interesting, background, with even making a network request!
Stacking Context
When working with
mix-blend-mode, the effects you
will obtain depend on the order of the elements on your page. The
order of elements, at least to me, is not always intuitive. There
are a number of properties that can affect the order of your
elements, some more obvious than others:
When dealing with your own code, you can learn and make
adjustments to the order to best suit your needs. But maybe you're
using the Latest and Greatest Framework TM, which has its own ideas
about what order your elements should be? Or thinks that a
z-index of 10,000 is appropriate? It may come down to
choosing between the library or using
Furthermore, you may run into issues if you don't have complete
control over the environment your code will run in. I work in
mobile web advertising, and I very rarely know where my work will
be displayed, let alone have the ability to test it. Subsequently,
for many of my projects it has been better to err on the side of
safety, where I prefer to use
background-blend-mode as
its results are predictable.
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with the exception of Internet Explorer and Edge (with both
properties under consideration for development in Edge). With OSX
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color, and
luminosity) are not yet supported. This is useful to
know in advance, lest you toggle blend mode values whilst squinting
and telling yourself that you totally see a subtle
difference – no, no you can't. These ones are unfortunately super
fun, but so are the rest! In the meantime, you'll get a lot of
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This week's Monday profile is Russ Weakley: front end developer, web designer and trainer, with particular expertise in CSS, UX and accessibility.
Russ spoke at our Respond Front End Design conference, and this profile first appeared in Scroll magazine.
You can follow Russ on Twitter, and find him at http://maxdesign.com.au/.
Q Describe your family.
A I live with my long term partner, our two children and two dogs. Both my partner and I were born and raised in Sydney.
Our oldest son is obsessed with video games of all varieties, to the point where we have to set time limits. He is also a passionate musician – playing the trombone. Our younger son is interested in a range of activities including competition swimming and dance.
Q What book has changed your life in some way?
A At different times of my life, different books have inspired me, or caused me to change how I thought about a specific topic. When I was around 20 years old a book called Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams was a big influence. As a print designer, many typography books helped me change the way I saw type in design. I cannot remember a lot of the earlier books, but one that comes to mind is The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst.
When I moved into web design, a lot of books were influential but one stood out as it approached HTML and CSS in a very different way: Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns by Michael Bowers. These days, I often get more inspiration from other media rather than books. I listen to a lot of podcasts and I watch a fair amount of YouTube movies on all sorts of topics from comedy to secularism and rationalism.
Q What formal qualifications do you have How did you end up doing web work?
A When I left school, I decided that I wanted to go to Art college as I was very interested in drawing and cartooning. Sadly, I did very little painting at the Art School so they decided to fob me off to a new "Design School" which was just about to start at the College. It was there that I learned about design. I learned from a grumpy typographer who constantly berated us about kerning and letter spacing. I still have nightmares about incorrectly spaced letters to this day.
As part of the program, students had to do work experience. I refused to find my own, so the College found me a place with the Australian Museum design team. I worked there for two weeks and thought "Well, luckily I'll never have to come back here". Soon afterwards, I was employed by the Museum and worked there for 29 years.
Q Describe what you do. What's your job? Is presenting at web conferences part of that job?
A My work falls into four different areas:
1. I am a UX/UI professional. I work mainly on web applications – sketching, wireframing, prototyping, user testing etc.
2. I am a front end developer – specialising in HTML/CSS/SCSS pattern libraries.
3. I also work in Accessibility – often working with other developers to advise them on how to make applications more accessible.
4. I do a fair amount of on-site training – where I work with team members to build up their skills in aspects of HTML, CSS, SCSS, Responsive Web Design and Accessibility.
Q Do you give much thought to the title you apply to yourself? Does it matter?
A It's very hard to work out a title across these four disciplines. The closest I have seen is "UI Developer" – which theoretically covers aspects of UX/UI, design and front end. The problem is that individual teams use different titles, and they use them in different ways. There is no canonical reference point for titles.
Q Describe the first time you gave a presentation on a web topic.
A I began presenting around 2003. I think my first presentation was to a Web Standards Group meeting in Sydney on some aspect of CSS. I felt very little nerves as I had presented a lot before becoming a web designer/developer. I really enjoyed the idea that I could help people understand an topic.
Q In The Graduate, Mr McGuire has just one word to say to aimless college graduate Benjamin Braddock: "Plastics". What one word would you give to today's prospective web professional?
A Basics.
I see many front end developers who have fast-tracked their knowledge. They can use Bootstrap and multiple different JavaScript frameworks but many lack even basic knowledge of HTML and CSS – or concepts like Progressive Enhancement.
When Russ first responded to our interview questions, he couldn't resist having a bit of fun with the questions. Here are his original answers to the first three questions.
Q Describe your family.
A My family comes from a long line of criminals – thieves, robbers, pickpockets and the like. My father and mother actually met in jail – staring at each other across the exercise yard. They had three boys, all by accident. Our young lives were spent in and out of juvenile detention centres. It is amazing that any of us have managed to stay out of prison.
I now have two boys of my own … well, I part-own them along with my partner. And the bank. I try to bring them up in the same way that I was brought up. Needless to say, they could shoot before they could walk and perform card tricks by the time they could speak. We have high hopes for their future.
Q What book has changed your life in some way?
A Probably the most important book I ever read was Put 'Em Down, Take 'Em Out! Knife Fighting Techniques from Folsom Prison". It taught me many of the lessons that I still use in business meetings to this day.
Q What formal qualifications do you have How did you end up doing web work?
A Unlike my brothers, I pretty much failed high school. As we surveyed the wreckage that was my HSC score, it became apparent that there was very little I could do except go to art school. It was either that or Humanities.
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content property and related functionality)
in CSS.
This is the first draft of a complete rewrite of this module, and is very rough. Large chunks (i.e. most) of the 2003 draft have been deleted, and major new functionality over CSS2.1 consists mainly of imports from the GCPM module. New features include:
plus a handy new
syntax for alternate text:
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We expect future work on this module to be pinning down the actual syntax and behavior of all the exciting new features imported from GCPM. For those who want to toy with implementations, most CSS->PDF renderers already support a significant subset. Significant changes since 2003 are listed in the Changes section.
Please send feedback by either filing an issue in
GitHub (preferable) or sending mail to the (archived)
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[css-content]) and your comment topic in the subject
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The CSS Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of CSS Scroll Snap Module Level 1. This module contains features to control panning and scrolling behavior with "snap positions", to which the UA is biased to land after a scroll operation.
This publication represents the completed merge of Tab and Fantasai's Change Proposal that incorporates www-style feedback into Microsoft's CSS Snap Points Module proposal championed by Matt Rakow. At this point all three editors will be working together to resolve the remaining open issues and address any further feedback on the module.
Please send feedback by either filing an issue in
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As with Karen McGrane, Ethan Marcotte, and a number of other speakers at our recent Respond Conference whom we'll feature in coming weeks, I had the privilege of sitting down and chatting with Sara Soueidan while she was here. We talked about how she became a speaker (great advice for anyone looking to start sharing their experience and expertise on stage), SVG (of course), and much more.
We also recently published our interview with Sara, which first appeared in our Scroll Magazine, if you'd like to know more about her.
And if reading's more your thing, there's a full transcript below.
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UniView now supports Unicode version 9, which is being released today, including all changes made during the beta period. (As before, images are not available for the Tangut additions, but the character information is available.)
This version of UniView also introduces a new filter feature. Below each block or range of characters is a set of links that allows you to quickly highlight characters with the property letter, mark, number, punctuation, or symbol. For more fine-grained property distinctions, see the Filter panel.
In addition, for some blocks there are other links available that reflect tags assigned to characters. This tagging is far from exhaustive! For instance, clicking on sanskrit will not show all characters used in Sanskrit.
The tags are just intended to be an aid to help you find certain characters quickly by exposing words that appear in the character descriptions or block subsection titles. For example, if you want to find the Bengali currency symbol while viewing the Bengali block, click on currency and all other characters but those related to currency will be dimmed.
(Since the highlight function is used for this, don't forget that, if you happen to highlight a useful subset of characters and want to work with just those, you can use the Make list from highlights command, or click on the upwards pointing arrow icon below the text area to move those characters into the text area.)
Craig Sharkie's presentation at our Respond conference was on how viewport units can make web typography responsive. And a great talk it was.
But when we asked him to write an article for our new Scroll magazine, Sharkie went off at a bit of a tangent. He refers in the talk to "contextomy", the word for taking something out of context, changing its meaning.
His article explores that further, digging into how changes in context can affect search results and ultimately what we think of as knowledge and truth. We've made that our Idea of the Week.
You can also read this article in the first edition of our rebooted Scroll Magazine.
You can google it. You can bing it. You can even let me google that for you. Google themselves would prefer that you didn't google it. And Yahoo would love anyone to have yahooed it.
"It", of course, is using a search engine, and we've all done it. In all likelihood, everyone you know has done it, although you probably see a handful of people each week that haven't, and wouldn't.
Figures show that 86.9% of Australians are computer literate, which is well above the global computer literacy rate of 39.0%, and safely under the Australian literacy rate of 96%. I know all those figures because I googled them. And Google happily gave me 2,870,000 results, in a breathtaking 0.51 seconds.
And we don't question that. Although perhaps you're starting to, now. We're comfortable receiving our search results in batches of 10, and if we make it 10 pages deep in a search, there's something awry.
When Jerry Yang and David Filo launched Yahoo last century, it was a search directory and not a search engine. That just meant that human beings made recommendations about what would be the best results for your search, and not a Web bot with a flashy algorithm.
And somewhere along the line we traded human input for a spider's index.
If you're familiar with the genre you're searching, and can recognise key personalities in your results, you actually start to apply some directory filtering back over the bot's results.
Interested in Web Development? If you see Mozilla Developer Network or the W3C in your results you'll be confident you're heading in the right direction.
Interested in Semantic Web Development and you'll likely skip past W3Schools, but you'll often take a look at Stack Overflow, just to be sure. Names like Paul Irish, Chris Coyier, Remy Sharp, Eric Meyer, and Peter-Paul Koch will make you more comfortable again. Although for two of those, CSS-Tricks and Quirksmode might be more familiar.
Search for "search?q=most+popular+search" and you'll get 415,000,000 results in a quarter of a second, and there's frankly no way for you to comprehend that much data in that small an amount of time. We've long ago traded quantity and speed for quality and fidelity. Voracity for veracity.
And if you take brands out of the mix – think Kardashians, Kanye, Kleenex, or My Kitchen Rules – and pornography from the mix – think … well you know what to think – the most searched for term in 2015 was "weather".
45.5 million people per month searched for weather, and the smart money says folks wanted to know the forecast, and not the science behind the weather.
In our hunger for information we often overlook quality. We opt for common usage, over uncommon precision. And we're happy to do it for searches as we've become used to doing it for so many other parts of our shared experience. We have precedent for it and we're familiar with it, and it's almost an expectation. Great minds think alike, after all.
And even the saying "Great minds think alike" has fallen victim to the race for more results. It's become a contextomy – the selective excerpting of words from their original linguistic context in a way that distorts the source's intended meaning. Ask Wikipedia what a contextomy is.
"Great minds think alike, small minds rarely differ" or "Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ" are the directory versions, and the more idiomatic "Great minds think alike" is the search engine version.
Millions of people misquote this saying and in that misquotation change the meaning we take from the quote.
When we find answers that fit the shape of our question, and in the face of potentially millions of answers, we excuse ourselves from the need to investigate the answers too thoroughly. Often, there is little harm in our expedience; occasionally, though that expedience is the root of our lament.
Were we to take the time to investigate, the answer would be closer than we think, and more useful than we expect.
Allow yourself to only need an image search for "Great minds think alike" and you'd be told the saying originated in Ancient Greece. Don't settle for the picture-telling-a-thousand-words option, and Google can lead you to a Stack Overflow result where you'd learn that the idiom wasn't quite that old and likely comes from the 17th Century.
We don't always need to go back to the source or specification to get the truth behind the answers we need, but we do need to be sure that someone has done the hard yards there for us. The answer that we desperately need might be the 11th result on Google and can save us hours of work.
Had Jesse James Garrett not been going back to the
specification, he might not have been among the drive that saw
Asynchronous JavaScript + XML push the use of the Internet in new
Arguably, you don't need to know that Garrett coined the term Ajax in the shower, but then that might be the information that's your tipping point.
And, as they say, "the rest is science".
Or do they?
Maybe we should google that.
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Q. Who is Mr. Smarty Plants?
A: There are those who suspect Wildflower Center volunteers are the culpable and capable culprits. Yet, others think staff members play some, albeit small, role. You can torture us with your plant questions, but we will never reveal the Green Guru's secret identity.
Did you know you can access the Native Plant Information Network with your web-enabled smartphone?
Ask Mr. Smarty Plants is a free service provided by the staff and volunteers at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
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From: Mahopac, NY
Region: Northeast
Topic: Diseases and Disorders, Trees
Title: Reason for tree canopy dieback from Mahopac NY
Answered by: Barbara Medford
QUESTION:Dear Mr. Smarty Plants: Not a questions, just sharing, re person in Texas whose Ash Jupiter appeared to be dying "canopy very thin on top". We moved to Putnam Co. NY in 1970. Our house was shaded by 2 beautiful, huge, American Elms. In approx. 1995 we noticed a thinning canopy on each. The canopies of these trees spread over two roads (corner property) and 2 houses (incl. ours). Contacted a NYS who sent a "ranger" to look at them. To make a long story short, he said that the trees had "started dying" when the 2 roads and then houses had been put in, severely damaging the roots. They both had to come down in early 2000s. It broke my heart!
Often when we are asked about mysterious symptoms in plants, especially trees, we suspect some interference with the roots or crowding by foundation or sidewalks. There is no way to tell if this is going on, especially if you were not present when the tree was planted or the structures built around it.
Still, credit where credit is due. Follow this link Ulmus americana (American elm) to our webpage on the tree. It does speak favorably about the tree but notes that Dutch Elm Disease has decimated the species. It also notes that this is a fast-growing tree, and fast growing trees are usually short-lived. If this tree was already shading your house in 1970 and didn't have to be cut down until 2000, it would appear that it lived a good long life.
We appreciate your offering this example of the difficulty of diagnosing (especially from a distance, as in our case) maladies or deaths of plants without a readily apparent reason.
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... need a separate headquarters function in Salisbury, NC? Ultimately, I don't think so. A shift from Salisbury to Carlisle, PA (where I think most of the total U.S. merchandising will be centered) is certainly do-able and would provide huge savings ... Comment?
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... ago, used to stand. One is located in the lot bounded by A, D, College, and Factory streets, while the other is on Carlisle Springs Road between E and Hanover streets. There is a plan to re-develop the land with a hotel, several restaurants and ... Comment?
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... a great deal of passion for the sport. Derkacz lettered in cross country and track 12 times at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. He captained both teams. His three younger brothers ran cross country for Port Jervis under coach Bob Dorn. Derkacz ... Comment?
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A 17-year-old Carlisle boy and his passenger suffered injuries after the vehicle they were in struck a utility pole. Franklin County area police log A 17-year-old Carlisle boy and his passenger suffered injuries after the vehicle they were in struck a utility pole. Comment?
... has a glorious history. It was a national leader when it opened on Oct. 1, 1940. The section between Irwin and Carlisle was the first long-distance controlled-access highway in the United States. Commission Chairman Sean Logan says revenues from the ... Comment?
Carlisle father threatened to shoot police, claimed to be part of a militia w/Photo
MIDDLESEX TWP., Cumberland County, Pa- A Cumberland County father is behind bars after he made several threats against Middlesex Township Police while his son was being arrested earlier this month. Michael Filaroski, 43, of Carlisle, is charged with two counts of terroristic threats, persons not to possess firearms and firearms not to be carried without a license. Comment?
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According to police, a suspect wearing a skeleton mask entered Johns Diner located along the Harrisburg Pike in Carlisle and displayed a handgun. The suspect is being described as a dark complected black male, approximately 5'8 to 5'10, weighing about 175 pounds. Comment?
Shuttered New Cumberland pub up for tax sale as downtown sees resurgence w/Photo
... business goes on the auction block at 10 a.m. Sept. 22 at the Old Cumberland County Courthouse, 2 S. Hanover St., Carlisle. The three parcels that make up Coakley's are 305 and 309 Bridge Street and 217 Third Street, which is attached and just ... Comment?
Movie Review: 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' w/Photo
... it of the warmth it exudes. Talia Amorosano is a rising senior English and studio art major at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and is a frequent contributor to Times Beacon Record Newspapers. Comment?
Man wanted in multiple burglaries in Dauphin County surrenders to police w/Photo
... East Pennsboro Township Police charged Ramos with a daylight residential burglary. He is also a suspect in a recent Carlisle-area residential burglary that is being investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police. Comment?
Former hotel housekeeper charged with stealing guesta s can of soup w/Photo
A former hotel housekeeper is charged with Theft by Unlawful Taking that included a can a soup from a guest. On Friday, July 15, just before 11 p.m., Carlisle Borough Police responded to a report of a theft at a hotel on S. Hanover Street. Comment?
Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane's office today announced Pennsylvania and five other states have reached a settlement with the owners of Giant/Martin's and the Food Lion supermarkets that will require the divestiture of 76 supermarket stores nationwide for the retailers to proceed with a proposed $28 billion merger. The settlement with Koninklijke Ahold N.V, the owner of Giant-Carlisle and Martin's supermarkets, and Delhaize Group NV/SA, the owner of Food Lion supermarkets, follows a review conducted by Attorney General Kane's office, other state Attorneys General and the Federal Trade Commission. Comment?
Lt. Col. Kipp Wahlgren, U.S. Marine Corps, graduated from the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle, Pa., with a master's degree in strategic studies on June 10. Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Comment?
Dewease wins wild Summer Nationals at Williams Grove w/Photo
... the Champion Racing Oil Summer Nationals Sanctioned by World of Outlaws Saturday, July 23, 2016. Sam Jumper of Carlisle bought a wing signed by Danny Dietrich. Williams Grove Speedway hosted the Champion Racing Oil Summer Nationals Sanctioned by ... Comment?
Giant Food Stores Debuts Choice Rewards in Lancaster County, Pa.
CARLISLE, Pa. -- Beginning September 17, Giant Food Stores customers who earn rewards points by shopping at any Giant supermarket can now choose what type of savings is best for them-Gas Extra Rewards or 5% off groceries. Comment?
Warrant issued for suspect in 40 home burglaries w/Photo
... East Pennsboro Township Police charged Ramos with a daylight residential burglary. He is also a suspect in a recent Carlisle-area residential burglary that is being investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police and in three Lower Paxton Township ... Comment?
Anchorage soldier-scholar's book about little-known Falklands War... w/Photo
... warfare, using the Falklands as recent case in point. He recently spoke at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and, at this writing, is scheduled to make a presentation at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine ... Comment?
Burglary victim a glada police broke up alleged 8-month theft ring w/Photo
... and related charges for burglaries in Cumberland and Perry counties. Len McKee, the owner of Beverage Express in Carlisle, said the suspects were able to get into his building back in November by cutting away pieces of the metal siding around back. ... Comment?
PPG Reaches Agreement with Vitro for Sale of Flat Glass Operations w/Photo
... and glass coatings operations, including production sites located in Fresno, California; Salem, Oregon; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; and Wichita Falls, Texas; four distribution/fabrication facilities located across Canada; and a research-and-development ... Comment?
Wilfred J. Plumley Jr., US Army Civilian, graduated from the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle, Pa. with a Master's Degree in Strategic Studies on June 10, 2016. Comment?
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