CSS-Methods Chronicles XLIII

Usually, I wish to publish one in every of these updates each few months. However seeing because the final one dates again to September of final 12 months, I’m effectively off that mark and figured it’s excessive time to place pen to paper. The actual fact is that lots is going on round right here at CSS-Methods — and it’s all good things.

The Almanac is rolling

Within the final publish of 2024, I stated that filling the Almanac was a prime precedence heading into this 12 months. We had lately refreshed the entire dang factor, full with utterly new sections for documenting CSS selectors, at-rules, and features on prime of the sections we already had for properties and pseudo-selectors. The one downside is that these new sections have been fairly naked.

Properly, not solely has this staff stepped as much as produce a bunch of recent content material for these new sections, however so have you ever. Collectively, we’ve revealed 21 new Almanac entries for the reason that begin of 2025. Right here they’re in all their glory:

• animation-timeline
• interpolate-size
• overlay
• @charset
• @counter-style
• @import
• @keyframes
• @namspace
• @web page
• @view-transition
• attr()
• calc-size()
• counter()
• counters()
• hsl()
• lab()
• lch()
• light-dark()
• oklch()
• rgb()
• symbols()

What’s even higher? There are at the moment fourteen extra within the hopper that we’re actively engaged on. I definitely don’t count on us to maintain this type of tempo all 12 months. Plenty of work goes into every entry. Plus, if all we ever did was write in Almanac, we might by no means get new articles and tutorials out to you, which is basically what we’re all about round right here.

Plenty of podcasts and occasions

These of you who know me know that I’m not essentially the most social particular person in all of the land. Sure, I like hanging out with people and all that, however I are likely to maintain my actions to back-of-the-house stuff and like to remain out of view.

So, that’s why it’s bizarre for me to name out just a few latest podcast and occasion appearances. It’s not like I do these items all that usually, however they’re enjoyable and I like to notice them, even when its just for posterity.

• I hosted Smashing Meets Accessibility, a mini on-line convention that featured three wonderful audio system speaking concerning the ins and outs of WCAG conformance, greatest practices, and unbelievable private experiences formed by incapacity.
• I hosted Smashing Meets CSS, one other mini convention from the fantastic Smashing Journal staff. I acquired to hang around with Adam Argyle, Julia Micene, and Miriam Suzanne, all of whom blew my socks off with their shows and panel dialogue on what’s new and doable in fashionable CSS.
• I’m co-hosting a brand-new podcast with Brad Frost known as Open Up! We recorded the primary episode reside in entrance of an viewers that was allowed to talk up and take part within the dialog. The entire thought of the present is that we speak extra concerning the issues we have a tendency to speak much less about in our work as internet designers and builders — the touchy-feely facet of what we do. We coated so many heady matters, from desperation throughout layoffs to rediscovering objective in your work.
• I used to be a visitor on the Psychological Well being in Tech podcast, becoming a member of a panel of different front-enders to debate angst within the face of latest technological developments. The pace and fixed drive to market new applied sciences is dizzying and, to me at the least, off-putting to the extent that I’ve questioned my whole place in it as a developer. What a blast attending to return to the podcast a second time and speak store with a bunch of essentially the most considerate, insightful individuals you’ll ever hear. I’ll share that when it’s revealed.

A brand new information on styling counters

We revealed it simply the opposite week! I’ll be trustworthy and say {that a} full information about styling counters in CSS was not the very first thing that got here to my thoughts after we began planning new concepts, however I’ll be darned if Juan didn’t exhibit simply how large a subject it’s. There are such a lot of issues in relation to styling counters — design! accessibility! semantics! — and the variety of instruments we have now in CSS to model them is mind-boggling, together with two features that look very related however have vastly totally different capabilities for creating customized counters — counter() and counters() (that are additionally freshly revealed within the Almanac).

On the finish of final 12 months, I stated I hoped to publish 1-2 new guides, and right here we’re within the first quarter of 2025 with our first one out within the wild! That offers me hope that we’ll be capable to get one other complete information out earlier than the top of the 12 months.

Authors

I feel essentially the most thrilling replace of all is getting to acknowledge the parents who’ve revealed new articles with us for the reason that final replace. Please assist me lengthen an enormous spherical of applause to all of the faces who’ve rolled up their sleeves and shared their data with us.

• Lee Meyer
• Zell Liew
• Andy Clarke (I can’t consider it!)
• Temani Afif
• Andy Bell
• Preethi
• Daniel Schwarz
• Bryan Robinson
• Sunkanmi Fafowora

And, in fact, nothing on this website could be doable with out ongoing assist from Juan Diego Rodriguez and Ryan Trimble. These two not solely do plenty of heavy lifting to maintain the content material machine fed, however they’re additionally simply two fantastic individuals who make my job much more enjoyable and pleasing. Severely, guys, you imply lots to this website and me!

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