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Can we quickly appreciate how powerful CSS has become and what a beautiful snippet this is? 👏

https://una.im/range-style-queries/

/* Range style query in an if() statement */ .weather-card { background: if( style(--rain-percent > 45%): blue; else: gray; ); }
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One for your bookmarks... 🫣

https://stopcitingai.com/

“But ChatGPT said…” You’ve been sent here because you cited AI as a source to try and prove something.
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TIL — the CSS working group is working on appearance: base; which will give us:

  • Identical styles across all browsers
  • 100% WCAG 2.2 compliant controls
  • Easy ways to customize all these form elements 💯

This talk is time very well spent. 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgSiqSqxTxw&t=59s

Example showing how `appearance: base;` provides base styles across browsers which are also customizable.
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For the bloggers: the W3C WebDX Community Group released a web component to display web feature baseline info. Drop baseline-status into your HTML and display some juicy browser compat data. 💯

https://github.com/web-platform-dx/baseline-status

`baseline-status` web component rendering browser support info.
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@stefan@front-end.social avatar stefan , to random

This is pretty wild — our friends at "Read The Docs" saw file download traffic drop by 75% after blocking AI bots.

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/

By blocking these crawlers, bandwidth for our downloaded files has decreased by 75% (~800GB/day to ~200GB/day). If all this traffic hit our origin servers, it would cost around $50/day, or $1,500/month, along with the increased load on our servers.
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