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Still no word from the horse’s mouth about the reported EdgeHTML demise, but I hear that’s coming later today. The blog posts are starting to roll in about the possible impact of this though.

Andre Garzia: While we Blink, we loose the Web:

Even though Opera, Beaker and Brave are all doing very good work, it is still Chrome engine behind them and that limits the amount of stuff they can build and innovate. It is like as …

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This is the second post in a two-part series that looks into the way CSS variables can be used to make the code for complex layouts and interactions less difficult to write and a lot easier to maintain. The first installment walks through various use cases where this technique applies. This post covers the use of fallbacks and invalid values to extend the technique to non-numeric values.

The strategy of using CSS Variables to drive the switching of layouts and …

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.foo {

}

Programmatically, is:

if (element has a class name of "foo") {

}

Descendent selectors are && logic and commas are ||. It just gets more complicated from there, with things like combinators and pseudo selectors. Just look at all the ways styles can cascade.

Jeremy Keith:

If you find you can’t select something in the CSS, that’s a sign that you probably need to add another class name to the HTML. The complexity is confined to …

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You may have a love/hate relationship with whatever project management platform you’re using or have used in the past. It’s common for a platform to be missing that one feature you really need that would …

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We did a Web Developer Economics series a few years ago, where we looked at the various costs of being a web developer:

1. Web Developer Economics: One-Off Software Costs
2. Web Developer Economics: Hardware Costs
3. Web Developer Economics: Monthly Service Costs
4. Web Developer Economics: The Wrapup

I’m sure some of that software and hardware has changed since then, but the spirit is the same. It costs money to have the things you need to do this job.

I just wrote a …

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