Cory Rylan shows off a great use for Anchor Position: Flow Charts!
Safari 18 includes some really nice features. And to keep us all update-to-date, Stefan Judis has started a series of blog posts to inform us all with the overall browser status of the new features that Safari is shipping.
One new feature in Safari is View Transitions, meaning we can finally expect a broad base of our users to start seeing them on our sites! However, as with all good things, they are not necessarily for everything… As Eric Portis points out, View Transitions could actually be harmful to some KPIs…
Speaking of performance issues, Michelle Vu has a blog series about how Pinterest tracks performance regression, including custom metrics. Gave me some ideas for tracking important performance points on some work projects…
And Brian Louis Ramirez shares his findings from field-testing CSS Containment. I played with this myself sometime back, and had similar findings: maybe it helps, sometimes…
Lilou Artz shares an idea for redirecting 404s using a “fuzzy” search. An interesting concept, as long as you have URLs that are unique enough to handle the ambiguity.
SVG. Is any tech more loved/hated? Maybe Regex… But Nicolas Lenz has started a long-overdue conversation about making SVG more… usable. While pointing out that SVG is currently neither human- nor machine-friendly, Nicolas suggests perhaps a better format could be found?
In Max Böck‘s article Old Dogs, new CSS Tricks, he points out that there is a LOT of new CSS out there, and curiously, not a lot of people are using it all… Of his list, I have used a few, but only a couple of them regularly… How about you?
Speaking of new and shiny things, Rachel Andrew presents her list of what is new to the web in July 2024!
And speaking of :has (it’s in Max’s list ;-), Andy Bell shares some little ways I’m using CSS :has() in the real world. Always helpful to see real-life demos, rather than theoretical possibilities…
And speaking of the View Transition API (it’s in both Max’s and Rachel’s list ;-), Bramus offers 6 additional possibilities for why this tech hasn’t exploded onto the scene.
Any position: sticky users out there? I LOVED this when it first came out, then I instantly hated it, because so often it wouldn’t work, because some parent element had overflow: hidden! Well, Ben Frain comes to the rescue!
With INP being the (relatively) new darling of the web performance ball, we hear all kinds of talk about reducing JS, and breaking up long tasks, to help browsers react faster to user interactions. But Dan Luu writes about How web bloat impacts users with slow devices. If users’ devices are chunking trying to download and ingest all your code, your site is NOT going to be interactive…
And finally, anyone else tracking Invokers? This could be a pretty big game-changer for the reliability of HTML on JS… There are a lot of articles out there, and things are still in flux, but the topic is certainly one to be being aware of. Here are a few tasty bits…
- Invoker Commands (Explainer)
- The Invokers Are Coming
- I love invokers and you should too
- An update on invokers: Invoker commands in HTML
- Invoker Commands: an exciting upcoming Web Platform API you’ve probably not heard of yet (video)
Happy reading,
Atg
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