CSSence

In my ongoing attempt to tame the Popover API, I’ve encountered another oddity.

Last week, Jeremy Keith tagged me to take part in the Blog Questions Challenge … well, not me per se, but everyone who has read his blog post on the subject, where he did follow suit after being tagged.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on January 27, 2025 at 13:59 Funny indeed.

Ah, the CSS top layer, what a great invention.

Are you aware of Forced Colors Mode?

Matthias Zöchling wrote on December 5, 2024 at 07:11 Is it satire?

Matthias Zöchling wrote on November 30, 2024 at 08:00 As mentioned, 2024 has been my best blogging year so far.

Earlier this week Silvestar Bistrović has been so kind to include one of my articles in his UI Dev Newsletter issue #106.

The strategies Do nothing Hide in plain sight Go the extra mile Use the force Be bold Know where to stop I use Linux on my personal laptop.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on November 27, 2024 at 10:42 I was wondering if there had been any progress on the state of HTML includes, and sure enough @mxbck@front-end.social has written about just that not too long ago. mxb.dev/blog/buildless Matthias Zöchl…

When I wrote about the six (eight) levels of dark mode, I also added an accompanying Extra.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on November 7, 2024 at 09:49 I watched @wesbos.com inspecting a wicked fast website, and now I’m hoping for a future where creating sites that way is the new normal.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on November 6, 2024 at 10:28 #introduction 👋 My name is Matthias, but online you are more likely to know me as @CSSence.

Manuel Matuzović wrote about the difference between :has(:not()) and :not(:has()) almost two years ago.

While using the relatively new color-mix function, I noticed browser differences in Forced Colors Mode that I found worth exploring.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on October 4, 2024 at 04:20 Monospace fonts, what’s not to like?

Matthias Zöchling wrote on October 1, 2024 at 08:18 I bought a new domain without a particular need.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on August 28, 2024 at 17:54 In reply to: @mia@front-end.social, @zachleat@zachleat.com, @Jamessw@mastodon.cloud, @Edent@mastodon.social. resize, and some A11Y fallbacks: cssence.com/2022/pure-css-image-compare James Stuckey Weber w…

Sara Joy wrote on August 24, 2024 at 19:19 This is such a great suggestion, actually.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on August 19, 2024 at 09:58 I was today years old when I learned that the display property’s … inline-flex became inline flex, inline-grid became inline grid, inline-table became inline table, and inline-block became inline flow-ro…

Matthias Zöchling wrote on August 12, 2024 at 08:10 Thanks to the “Recent #CSS Bookmarks” by @kizu@front-end.social (whom I met at this year’s #CSSDay), I stumbled upon developer.chrome.com/blog/reading-flow-display-contents by @rachelandrew@front-end.soc…

Chee Aun wrote on July 29, 2024 at 14:55 the what border-start-start-radius MDN border-start-start-radius Matthias Zöchling wrote on July 29, 2024 at 15:16 In reply to: @cheeaun@mastodon.social.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on July 25, 2024 at 07:56 I started doing this web development thing in the olden days, think tables for layout and years starting with 19.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on July 20, 2024 at 16:12 Interesting read by @j9t@mas.to: “Thoughts on CSS in 2024” I agree with many things in there, though I’m using :where() 4 to 5 times as much as :is(). 😉 Now I have to read the articles he linked to as well,

I was on vacation with my family when the oldest entry on my site turned 5000 days old.

Sara Soueidan wrote on July 11, 2024 at 17:57 Not a day goes by when I work on my website that I don’t wish for a simpler setup.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on July 9, 2024 at 06:22 As of today, the oldest entry on my #blog CSSence.com is 5000 days old.

Another JavaScript-related article in the same month?

Back to the roots.

Once every blue moon a JavaScript-related article ends up on this site.

Sara Soueidan wrote on June 13, 2024 at 06:04 Two videos, same topic.

HTTP status code 426 is Upgrade Required.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on June 11, 2024 at 11:24 Great article: brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet Does your website’s performance budget account for visitors from Antarctica?

Sara Joy wrote on June 7, 2024 at 22:25 From years of being bored, unsatisfied, or struggling in various jobs and industries, I finally feel like I have come home.

Max Böck wrote on June 6, 2024 at 12:58 #CSSDay ist the first conference where I see live-posting on Mastodon the way we used to do on Twitter.

I’ve once again visited Amsterdam, attending the CSS Day conference for the third time.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on May 31, 2024 at 08:01 I’ll admit to updating my /popular/ page rather infrequently, because it’s manual labor to import and crunch the numbers; time I’d like to spend otherwise.

Hyphenation is hard.

On the day this website stood still, which happened almost three years ago, I linked to an article by Ahmad Shadeed, “The State of Mobile First and Desktop First”.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on May 13, 2024 at 14:40 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the power of :has() cannot be underestimated.

The first-ever #11tyConf caught me by surprise, as I only found out about the conference on Mastodon while it was already in progress.

Many years ago, flow-root has been added as another value for the display property.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on May 9, 2024 at 04:44 The oldest piece of content on my site is a link to “The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)”

John Williams wrote on April 30, 2024 at 17:14 So: pointer-hands for buttons on web pages?

Matthias Zöchling wrote on April 30, 2024 at 16:07 I’d like you to check out “The CSScade” by @fonts@sfba.social. www.csscade.com It went live only recently, and already contains loads of great content.

Whoopsie, when I wrote »Is CSS alive?

In case you missed it, my site now distinguishes between regular notes and links.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on April 24, 2024 at 07:18 Ah, yes, the inaugural #JSNakedDay.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on April 19, 2024 at 06:51 What a throwback!

Welcome to level 8 of »Six levels of dark mode«.