What’s !important #19: CSS Refraction Effects, Scroll State Queries, @custom-media, and More
We’re back! Don’t worry, this isn’t a trick (despite what our name suggests!). However, due to the…
New Ecommerce Tools: October 14, 2026
Our curated rundown this week of new services for merchants includes agentic checkouts, AI-powered marketing, same-day deliveries,…
Adeia’s AI Models How Makeup Holds Up Throughout the Day
Virtual try-on lets shoppers preview makeup before applying it. Now, Adeia is using AI to model how…
Retail Media’s Opportunity Cost
A recent search for “cordless drill” on Walmart illustrated a quiet struggle playing out on many enterprise…
Google, OpenAI, ChatGPT Dominate AI-Referred Web Traffic
AI tools are sending billions of visits to websites, but more than half of that traffic is…
Temu ranks first in four European ecommerce markets
Temu has broken into the top 10 online retailers in almost every European country. In four countries,…
New Ecommerce Tools: September 16, 2026
This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on international shipping, cross-border payments,…
ECDB: Bol widens lead over Amazon.nl
Bol increased its lead over Amazon last year, according to a new ECDB ranking of ecommerce in…
‘German online stores less visible on Google’
The organic visibility of large online stores in Germany is under pressure. Last June, on average, they…
Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers
The creator of the TV show The Good Place wrote a tie-in book about moral philosophy which includes a chapter called…
Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API
Firefox 151 recently shipped the Document Picture-in-Picture API. This isn’t the same thing as the (regular?) Picture-in-Picture…
animation-trigger
The CSS animation-trigger property delays the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs. More specifically, it…
CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days
Really like the intent here. Apply a style when someone navigates from one specific page to another….
Fruugo returns to profit
Online marketplace Fruugo made a profit of 1.4 million British pounds (1.64 million euros) in 2025. Just…
Animating CSS border-image
The CSS border-image property is one of those features we take for granted. And it’s not new…
Using and Styling the Dialog Element
Wasn’t it great — nay, amazing – the day we got a native HTML <dialog> element? It’s,…
Notino reaches 1.76 billion euros in revenue
Notino, which describes itself as the market leader in European ecommerce for beauty and health products, increased…
Storfund partners with Castorama
Ecommerce financer Storfund has announced a partnership with Castorama France. As a result, sellers on the French…
translateY()
The CSS translateY() function shifts an element vertically by the specified amount. Specifically, it shifts an element either up…
translateX()
The CSS translateX() function shifts an element horizontally by the specified amount. Specifically, it displaces an element to the…
translate()
The CSS translate() function shifts an element from its default position on a two-dimensional plane. This way, we can…
New Ecommerce Tools: June 24, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, generative engine optimization,…
Using Scroll-Driven Animations for Opposing Scroll Directions
Sometimes designers have silly ideas that eventually grow on you. That happened to me with this concept…
Why Isn’t My 3D View Transition Working?
If you have played around with view transition a bunch, you may have noticed that 3D transitions…