Defining custom properties from Javascript
When I was writing a previous post, I wanted to create custom properties in Javascript that I could use in CSS based on the result of running color.js to convert colors and then test if the browser...
Import non-Javascript assets into ES Modules
This article updates Importing JSON and CSS on Javascript and corrects come mistakes from the previous post. In Importing JSON and CSS on Javascript we discussed the ability to import CSS and JSON...
Generic Blog (Web) Components: Introduction and Blog Posts V1
A while back I wrote a set of Vue 2 components for a WordPress blog. It wasn't a complete project, was missing functionality that I couldn't figure out how to implement and I was afraid it would lock...
New and Upcoming CSS: Revisiting Cascade Layers
CSS layers resolve another problem with CSS specificity and rule order. as I documented in: Looking forward: CSS Layers and the @layer at-rule CSS Layers or Cascade Layers are a way to group styles...
New and Upcoming CSS: New ways to write media queries
In the past, we've had to write media queries that check for screen/device width as something like this. This query checks if the screen has a minimum width of 768px @media (min-width: 768px) { ...
New and Upcoming CSS: @media (prefers-reduced-data)
Warning: This feature is only supported behind a flag in Chromium browsers since version 85 and, as far as I know, there is no polyfill. Do not use this feature in production. The...
New and Upcoming CSS: @custom-media
Of all the new features the one I've been researching is @custom-media. Custom media queries allow you to create, in essence, create variables in CSS where we associate a name with a media query and...
Testing color contrast in CSS: the color-contrast() function
The color-contrast() CSS function checks the contrast between two colors, usually a background color and black or white text. At its simplest, color-contrast() works like this: We first set up a...
New color features in CSS
There are a lot of interesting color features in CSS that are either under development, have recently been implemented in browsers, or are in development in one or more browsers. New color spaces...
Interview database using xQuery and web technologies
I'm starting to work with interviews. I would like to be able to get the audio transcribed to text and then store the text and the metadata about the interview in a no-SQL/non-relational database that...