Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements
In Part 1, we covered the gotchas that bite you first: the deprecated meta tag that silently…
Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking
Let’s play a quick game: I’ll show a graph and try to guess what it’s about. Source: Data…
Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions
I wasted an entire Saturday on this. Not a lazy Saturday either, but one of those rare,…
What’s !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, and More
If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like…
Interop 2026
Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re…
What’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More
Neither Chrome, Safari, nor Firefox have shipped new features in the last couple of weeks, but fear…
Postcard From Web Directions Dev Summit, 2025
Author’s Note: There are already wonderful recaps of the Web Directions Developer Summit I spoke at in…
What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More
2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue…
CSS Typed Arithmetic
CSS typed arithmetic is genuinely exciting! It opens the door to new kinds of layout composition and…
A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick
Editor’s note: This is a really clever idea that Preethi shared, but you will also see that…
A New “Web” Readiness Report
The beauty of research is finding yourself on a completely unrelated topic mere minutes from opening your…
Toe Dipping Into View Transitions
I’ll be honest and say that the View Transitions API intimidates me more than a smidge. There…
Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2())
We’ve been able to get the length of the viewport in CSS since… checks notes… 2013! Surprisingly, that was…
What on Earth is the `types` Descriptor in View Transitions?
Have you ever stumbled upon something new and went to research it just to find that there…
Thank You (2024 Edition)
I’ll be honest: writing this post feels like a chore some years. Rounding up and reflecting on…
A CSS Wishlist for 2025
2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning,…
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-09-18)
For the past two months, all my livelihood has gone towards reading, researching, understanding, writing, and editing…