Scroll-driven animations, image resets, and the future of the web

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PRE-S: A quick reminder that the State of CSS survey is currently open. The browser vendors all pay a lot of attention to the results of these “State of” surveys, and the more people who take them, the more representative the results are… plus they are a great way to learn about features you didn’t know about!

Hello Reader,

A bit of a short newsletter this week, as I've been focusing on getting some content created and working on my talk for CSS Day... I'm getting on the plane in a week from today!

A few weeks ago I mentioned that the panic hadn't set in yet.... it's started to set in now 😂.

🙋‍♂️ What I’ve been up to this week

A small update to the format of this section. General Musings (my second channel/podcast) regularly gets 20x as many views on YouTube as listens as a podcast (and closer to 400x for last week's episode!), so I'm going to put the link to the YT version here instead of the audio-only version. If you prefer the podcast version, it's not going anywhere!

📺 Scroll-driven animations without any JS

A look at how I made a subtle scroll-driven animation on the landing page for CSS Demystified.

⚡ Most image resets are missing this declaration

A quick look at why you probably should include a height: auto in your image reset.

🎙️The future of the web

A follow-up from last week, where I explore where things might go with Google deprioritizing links, and wondering if things like RSS, web rings, IRC, and other old school features are primed for a comeback.

You can get the RSS feed for the audio-only version here.

🔗 Other awesome stuff from around the web

Few less than usual, since I've been busy.

📝 Quiz time!

You have a decorative element that is a child of a .card, and you want it to sit on the card’s outer border edge so it can be moved anywhere around the perimeter. Which of these would align it on the border, assuming the element has position: absolute, and the .card has position: relative?

position-area: border-box;
offset-path: border-box;
offset-shape: border-box;
shape-outside: border-box;

As per usual, you'll have to head on over to YouTube to take a stab at the quiz, and once you answer, you'll see if you were right or not.

Have a fantastic week!
Kevin

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