Consecutive Scroll Animations with One Element

Ivan Gorbunov designed a beautiful concept a while ago where this one element gets animated throughout different layouts: This made me wonder how simple it would be to animate an element across various waypoints while scrolling, making it adapt to the spots using GSAP’s Flip. It turns out there’s a very helpful GSAP demo that […]

Bundle Up And Save On Smashing Books And Workshops — Smashing Magazine

It’s the end of the year, and as we look at our inventory, we thought, “Let’s help everyone in our community get ready for the year ahead!” Get friendly pricing on bundles of books and workshops to dive deep into the subjects you care about most. Let’s bundle up and save! Earlier this month, we […]

CSS nesting improves with CSSNestedDeclarations  |  Articles  |  web.dev

Published: Oct 8, 2024 To fix some weird quirks with CSS nesting, the CSS Working Group resolved to add the CSSNestedDeclarations interface to the CSS Nesting Specification. With this addition, declarations that come after style rules no longer shift up, among some other improvements. These changes are available in Chrome from version 130 and are […]

The Collective #882

Sponsored by Olá, frontend friends! 👋 Hope your week’s off to a great start! Eric Eggert‘s post on focusable UI elements caught our attention, where he breaks down the difference between sequentially and programmatically focusable elements—essential knowledge for accessible design and effective testing. For anyone juggling CSS units, David Bushell‘s insights on using both REM […]

Open-Source Meets Design Tooling With Penpot — Smashing Magazine

Penpot helps designers and developers work better together by offering a free, open-source design tool based on open web standards. Today, let’s explore its newly released Penpot Plugin System. So now, if there’s a functionality missing, you don’t need to jump into the code base straight away; you can create a plugin to achieve what […]

Show Baseline status on your blog posts and presentations  |  Blog  |  web.dev

Published: October 23, 2024 In this post, learn how you can use the new <baseline-status> web component on your own site, and the Baseline logos in presentations, whenever you write or talk about web platform features. Most developers have had the experience of searching for a solution to a web development problem, finding an article […]

Case Study: ChainGPT Labs | Codrops

In this case study, we will explore the creative journey behind ChainGPT Labs, examining how the Sigma Software Design team developed a visually cohesive and functionally advanced platform to support the next generation of Web3 startups. From branding to 3D design and interactive web development, this analysis highlights the challenges, solutions, and tools used to […]

Supercharging Productivity Across The Industry — Smashing Magazine

Discover how AI is reshaping web design, boosting productivity in design, coding, UX, and copywriting while amplifying human creativity in a new article by Paul Boag. As I sit down to write this article, I can’t help but marvel at the incredible changes sweeping through our industry. For the first time in my career, I […]

New to the web platform in October  |  Blog  |  web.dev

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during October 2024. Stable browser releases In October 2024, Firefox 131, Firefox 132, Safari 18.1, and Chrome 130 became stable. This post looks at the new features added to the web platform. Note: Browser compatibility data pulled from MDN is […]

The Collective #881

Olá, frontend friends! 👋 Hope your week has been going smoothly so far! This week’s reads offer a lot to think about in design and development, starting with Josh Comeau’s deep dive into container queries. Finally, we’re getting a way to make responsive designs that adapt to an element’s container instead of just the viewport… […]