Today in CSS:
We all know you can change the highlight colour of selected text, but it's impossible to animate that colour.
Unless…
the colour was just a variable inherited from the parent element, using @property to make it animatable…
Hahahahaha…
Favourite CSS property that sounds like an early-10s videogame marketing term is probably "touch-action"
Do you ever just look at a CSS tech demo that implements some neat gradient-based transition effect using pure CSS, and think to yourself "a plain image in a data URI has to be smaller than this"
Going into the webdev laboratory (i.e. pressed F12) to see how color-mix() in CSS works with getComputedStyle(). Can it simply get you the fully computed colour? It seems: yes, it can! But it's in the format of the color model you mixed with.
They're adding a CSS value called "pretty"? That's the best name they could come up with? The text wrapping is "pretty"?? Why not give up the pretense and call it "good" or "epic" or "awesomesauce" or something
Me: "Dang, CSS text rendering tech has gotten really snazzy lately. I wonder what new properties they used to make that white outline so–"
I was sitting her for a full minute and a half muttering "how on EARTH can a feature called "conic-gradient" produce a checkered background" but no, I've riddled it out, I've untangled MDN's twisted little conundrum.
I can't believe this one was added in 2017 and not in 1995 by a bored Netscape programmer.
Dang, the latest CSS they've added is unbelievable. They added a property that does this?!
*I check browser support and find it was added in Firefox 1.0* Oh………………………………………





