The Unexpected Power of Viewport Units in CSS | Lullabot
A nice rundown of some of the fun you can have with viewport units.
I’m very glad the problems with vh units I wrote about a little while back is getting fixed in Chrome for mobile.
Link archive: March 1st, 2017
“Cooking with Design Systems,” an article by Dan Mall
Dan describes his approach to maintainable CSS. It’s a nice balance between semantic naming and reusable styles.
Warning: the analogies used here might make you very, very hungry.
All You Need is Link | Rhizome
A lovely piece of early web history—Olia Lialina describes the early Net Art scene in 2000.
The address bar is the author’s signature. It’s where action takes place, and it’s the action itself. The real action on the web doesn’t happen on the page with its animated GIFs or funny scripts, it’s concentrated in the address bar.
And how wonderful that this piece is now published on Rhizome, an online institution so committed to its mission that it’s mentioned in this seventeen year old article.
Mood boards in a content-first design process — Thomas Byttebier
How style tiles can work great in combination with content prototypes:
Surprisingly, it helps clients understand the HTML content prototype better. They now clearly see the difference and the relationship between content and design. In general it helps me explain the content-first process better and it helps them make more sense of it.
State of Responsive Images 2017 - Cloud Four
Jason revisits responsive images. On the whole, things are looking good when it comes to browser support, but he points out that scrset’s precursor in CSS—image-set seems to have dropped off the radar of most browser makers, which is a real shame.