Thoughts From Eric

The proposal period for Interop 2027 closed in late September, which means the Interop team is now in the process of working through all the proposals and ultimately deciding which will be taken on next year.

Earlier this month, I returned to CSS Day for the first time since 2018 to deliver my first in-person talk since 2022.

Today is very much like it was twelve years ago, warm but not hot and cool in the shade, the sky a kind of clear you don’t often get in Cleveland.

My colleague Chris Griffith, with whom I collaborated to put The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Third Edition (1977) online, is also a spaceflight enthusiast (and an urban trails hiker: check out his new book!).

Over the years, I’ve created an experiment or two that drew stuff to a <canvas> element: a wave function collapse experiment here, a crystallizing palette there.

I’ve long made it clear that I don’t particularly care for the whole Shadow DOM thing.

Previously on meyerweb, I crawled through a way to turn parenthetical comments into sidenotes, which I called “asidenotes”.

It’s not really a secret I have a thing for sidenotes, and thus for CSS anchored positioning.

What happened was, I wrote a bookmarklet in early 2024 that would load all of the comments on a lengthy GitHub issue by auto-clicking any “Load more” buttons in the page, and at some point between then and now GitHub changed their markup in a way that bro…

It’s uncommon, but not unheard of, for a GitHub issue to spark an uproar.

Previously on meyerweb, I explored ways to do strange things with the infinity keyword in CSS calculation functions.

I was on one of my rounds of social media trawling, just seeing what was floating through the aether, when I came across a toot by Andy P that said: Fun #css trick: width: calc(infinity * 1px); height: calc(infinity * 1px); …and I immediately thought, This

There’s a layout type that web designers have been using for a long time now, and yet can’t be easily done with CSS: “masonry” layout, sometimes called “you know, like Pinterest does it” layout.

I’m a little (okay, a lot) late to it, but meyerweb is now participating in CSS Naked Day  —  I’ve removed the site’s styles, except in cases where pages have embedded CSS, which I’m not going to do a find-and-replace to try to suppress.

Back in 2023, I belatedly jumped on the bandwagon of people posting their CSS wish lists for the coming year.

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