Monthly Archives: November 2018

The subject of scaling CSS came up a lot in a recent ShopTalk Show with Ben Frain. Ben has put a lot of thought into the subject, even writing a complete book on it, Enduring CSS, which is centered around a whole ECSS methodology.

He talked about how there are essentially two solutions for styling at scale:

1. Total isolation
2. Total abstraction

Total isolation is some version of writing styles scoped to some boundary that you’ve set up (like …

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This platform is perfect for teams sized at 2-to-200 — and gives every employee the same level of transparency.

Every project management tool seeks to do the same instrumental thing: keep teams connected, on task and on deadline to get major initiatives done. But the market is getting pretty crowded, and for good reason — no platform seems to have gotten the right feel for what people need to see, and how that information should be displayed so that it’s …

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Like Eric Bailey says, if it’s interactive, it needs a focus style. Perhaps your best bet? Don’t remove the dang outlines that focusable elements have by default. If you’re going to rock a button { outline: 0; }, for example, then you’d better do a button:focus { /* something else very obvious visually */ }. I handled a ticket just today where a missing focus style was harming a user who relies on visual focus styles to …

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With the introduction of dark mode in macOS, Safari Technology Preview 68 has released a new feature called prefers-color-scheme which lets us detect whether the user has dark mode enabled with a media query.

That’s right. If this becomes a little bit more supported in other browsers, then we might potentially soon have a way to toggle on night modes with a few lines of CSS!

Recently Mark Otto described how we can start using prefers-color-scheme today in order …

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