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The web has grown bigger. Both in expansiveness and weight. Nick Heer’s “The Bullshit Web”:

The average internet connection in the United States is about six times as fast as it was just ten years ago, but instead of making it faster to browse the same types of websites, we’re simply occupying that extra bandwidth with more stuff.

Nick clearly explains what he means by bullshit, and one can see a connection to Brad Frost’s similarly framed …

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Just like the title says! Here’s a sidebar navigation bar that…

1. Uses sticky positioning. It stays on the screen when it can, but won’t overlap the header, footer, or ever make any of it’s links inaccessible.
2. Scrolls smoothly to the sections you click to.
3. Activates the current nav based on scroll position (it’s a single page thing).

See the Pen Sticky, Smooth, Active Nav by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

Sticky

It’s easy to toss position: sticky; …

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Styling and accessibility are often at odds with each other. Scott O’Hara has this repo that shows how the two can work really well together in the context of form controls.

The trade-offs between native and styled controls reminds me of Eric Bailey’s case study on focus styles:

A common misconception is that the focus style can only use the outline property. It’s worth noting that :focus is a selector like any other, meaning that it accepts the full …

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