Published in CodeX·1 day agoMember-onlyUnderstanding CSS Position:StickyIn trying to help various forum users all over the web,I realized that how position:sticky seems to confuse people. How it works in relation to the positioning attributes (top, left, bottom, right) is very poorly explained. …HTML4 min readHTML4 min read
2 days agoMember-only“I Made This In CSS” Good For A LaughLately over on Muskie the apartheid trust fund baby’s dumpster fire — you may know it as “Twitter” — there’s been a trend of people posting random photographs and saying “I made this in CSS.” …HTML3 min readHTML3 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 23Member-onlyHTTP Parallelism, Push, “Preload”, And Why Markup Bloat Is The EnemyBack in 2020 I wrote about how I thought HTTP 2.0 Push and SPDY might be placebo, but it turned out the problem was that the client I was working for just had a garbage website. This is a common affliction as systems like HTTP 2 push, server side result…HTML13 min readHTML13 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 19Member-onlyHTML Empty / Void / “Self Closing” Tags. We’re All Idiots.One of my pet peeves — ok, who are we kidding, as Carlin joked: “I don’t have pet peeves, I have rabid psychotic hatreds “— is when in tech a name is chosen for something that has absofragginglutely not one blasted thing to do with what the word means, or…HTML7 min readHTML7 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 19Member-onlyCSS Reduces The Need For Images — Part 5, Modal Driven HelpIn this final part of the series I’ll document the help system. It too shows how little we need images with things like webfonts and CSS 3 on the table. Look at the above image where those keys and buttons are styled entirely by CSS with no images. The forward/back/up…HTML11 min readHTML11 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 17Member-onlyHTML Attribute Value Quotes Are Optional Again?There have been a lot of changes to HTML the past decade or so. Some for the better, some not. There are some I take major issue with like making TFOOT before TBODY invalid, since that kind of defeats the point of TFOOT. Aka being efficient when printing since THEAD…HTML4 min readHTML4 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 16Member-onlyCSS Reduces The Need For Images — Part 4, The Actual Application ScriptIn the previous article I created the needed library script for DOM helping and modals. You can review that script here: https://cutcodedown.com/for_others/medium_articles/htmlCSSCalcScripted/scripts/sources/dom.lib.js Now it’s time to build the actual application part of the scripting. I’ll be breaking this down piece by piece, but if you want to look at the…HTML17 min readHTML17 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 16Member-onlyCSS Reduces The Need For Images — Part 3, Let’s Script ItYou ever start playing with something and get carried away on adding stuff? Yeah, this was fun. In the process of implementing this I’ve added more buttons and flags mimicking an old HeathKit calculator I built in the ‘80’s. This includes buttons to switch views between the saved total and…Java Script18 min readJava Script18 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 7Member-onlyHow CSS Is Reducing The Need For Images— Part 2, Eye CandyIn part one I went over how I found someone making a realistic looking styled calculator on Twitter, and how I took my own stab at it without planning. I then started doing it a second time with proper planning and folowing my usual build preocess. We got so far…HTML23 min readHTML23 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 5Member-onlyHow CSS Is Reducing The Need For Images — Let’s Style A CalculatorPart 1 of 3 (planned) Recently I came across this tweet about making a retro looking calculator using just HTML and CSS. It’s a decent implementation though I disliked all the excess “DIV for nothing” and classes. Those of you who regularly read my writings are likely not shocked by…HTML13 min readHTML13 min read
