Each pseudo element plays a distinct role in how the view transition animates. The browser does most of the heavy lifting though, which makes it a little hard to see what’s actually happening under the hood.
It was a lovely day on the internet when someone asked how to CSS animated gradient text like ChatGPT’s “Searching the web” and promptly got an answer saying “Have you tried asking ChatGPT? Here’s what it told me!” – well, maybe not these exact words, but at least it rhymes. Both the question and this […]
Blobs! Gooey weird shapes you can fill with any background and even animate.
Google Translate doesn’t change the `dir` of a site when translating from LTR to RTL… but you could.
A container query can contain viewport units, meaning you can compare the window vs the element and make choices.
Use the `arc` command within the `shape()` function we can draw a line that follows a circle from one point to the next, controlling the direction.
Don’t underestimate `shape()` — it’s the CSS version of SVG
You might as well really understand height and Josh Comeau has your back here. It’s really quite different than width and perhaps less intuitive. Plus when grid and flexbox get involved, things change.
We’ve been trying to make the point around here that the new shape() in CSS is awesome. It’s the powerful <path> in SVG ported to CSS so it can use actual units. It’s probably how path() should have ported to begin with, but c’est la vie.
I’ll make the point in this demo. Resize those containers and see how the clip-path responds (path() cannot be fluid, shape() can).
Are SVG <path>s 1-to-1 convertible to shape(), though? Apparently they are! (!!). Two people have already built converters and from what I’ve tested they work great.
A very interesting aspect of the AI smashing its way into every software product known to man, is how it’s integrated. What does it look like? What does it do? Are we allowed to control it? UX patterns are evolving around this. In coding tools, I’ve felt the bar being turned up on “anticipate what I’m doing and offer help”. Personally I’ve gone from, hey that’s nice thanks to woah woah woah, chill out, you’re getting in my way.
I’m sure this will be fascinating to watch for a long time to come. For example, “Subtle Mode” in Zed gets AI more “out of your face” and if you want to see a suggestion, you press a button. I love that idea. But I also understand Kojo Osei’s point here: there should be no AI button.
I just complained that color inputs couldn’t deal in P3 colors. Looks like Safari is the first-mover on supporting that, as well as alpha:
<input
type="color"
value="oklab(59% 0.1 0.1 / 0.5)"
colorspace="display-p3"
alpha
>Code language: HTML, XML (xml)I was able to make a quick demo and see it on iOS:
Under the Sliders tab, it’s still just R G & B, but it seems to me you can produce colors still in the P3 space. And if you’ve set the color space, it gives you a P3 hex code there (which I didn’t even know was a thing honestly). The actual value that you get is like: color(display-p3 0.921957 0.31855 0.969179). Which I guess is fine? Just don’t expect to get out a color in the same format you put in.
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