Quick Hit #107
Font Awesome are launching a Kickstarter campaign to transform Eleventy (11ty) into Build Awesome.
The Value of z-index
How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices.
Quick Hit #106
A new version of Chrome will be released every two weeks (instead of four) starting from September 2026.
The Different Ways to Select <html> in CSS
Sure, we can select the <html> element in CSS with, you know, a simple element selector, html. But what other (trivial and perhaps useless) ways can we do it?
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Quick Hit #105
Safari TP 238 trials customizable <select>, which Chrome has fully implemented already.
Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose?
Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research, I discovered that the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly different in terms of accessibility and we’ll go over that in this article.
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Quick Hit #104
Safari TP 238 trials :open, which would make it baseline (yes, really).
What’s !important #6: :heading, border-shape, Truncating Text From the Middle, and More
Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community had a lot to say, it seems, so fasten your seatbelts!
Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element
TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers!
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An Exploit … in CSS?!
Read an explanation of the recent CVE-2026-2441 vulnerability that was labeled a “CSS exploit” that “allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.”
Quick Hit #103
Firefox 148 makes shape() available without a flag, aligning with Chrome and Safari.
A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets
Browsers don’t just let you bookmark web pages. You can also bookmark JavaScript, allowing you to do so much more than merely save pages.
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