Because best practice is a conversation…
Hi, OddFriends! Join OddBird for conversations at the cutting edge of front-end web development – from CSS, HTML, and JavaScript to UX design and team process. Streaming live the third Tuesday of each month.
Learn how to declaratively add behavior to buttons with the Invoker Commands API. Join James Stuckey Weber and Miriam Suzanne for a live conversation with special guest Luke Warlow, Web Platform Engineer at Igalia.
Miriam’s been asking questions about fluid typography, and how a website design should plan for (and respond to) user preferences. And we’re not the only ones thinking about it! This month we continue the conversation with Richard Rutter from Clearleft, the experts behind excellent resources like Utopia.fyi and WebTypography.net.
It is frustrating to track down why an anchor isn’t being found. James and Miriam talk with Tab Atkins-Bittner about ways to troubleshoot CSS Anchor Positioning issues, and dive into the details to get a better understanding of how Anchor Positioning works.
Join Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, and special guest Alan Stearns – typography enthusiast, co-chair of the CSS Working Group, and self-described CSS Panjandrum – for a conversation about typography. Responsive Typography has been around for at least a decade in various forms, but has become even more popular with tools…
On December 17, 1996, the W3C published the first standard for CSS, and we celebrated the anniversary on Winging It! Michelle Barker, Stephanie Eckles, Kevin Powell, and Henri Helvetica joined us for our “CSS Is Awesome” game. If you love CSS as much as we do, we hope you will…
What happens when you set out to categorize every API and property of the web? OddBird has been documenting CSS for the Web Features project. Join us as we explore some fascinating rabbit trails, edge cases, and insights into the web platform that we’ve encountered along the way.
In July we talked with Stephanie Eckles about how (and why) you can get started working grids into your CSS toolkit. As requested, this is part two of our dive into CSS grids. We address your questions about strategy – demoing how we plan and apply grid layouts, starting with…
Web Components are a polarizing feature that seem simultaneously old news and not quite ready for production yet. But we’ve been making things with Web Components, and finding some areas where they really work well. Join us, along with special guest Zach Leatherman of 11ty, to hear more about how…
We talk with Stephanie Eckles – the brain behind ModernCSS.dev and SmolCSS.dev – about CSS grids. We look at a few of the most common grid patterns, to show you how (and why) you can get started working grids into your CSS toolkit!
Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, and James Stuckey Weber demo how to use new color formats with OddContrast, a color tool for previewing, accessibility testing, and selecting the format/space.
What is Anchor Positioning? Why is it exciting? What can you use it for? How does the polyfill work? Join James Stuckey Weber and Miriam Suzanne as they talk through these questions and answer yours in our monthly live stream.
Miriam Suzanne and Stacy Kvernmo talk about CSS Container Queries and the unexpected things that happen when you add containment. Some elements completely collapse! What’s going on there? We had questions and thought you might too. So we talk through the issue in our monthly live stream.
For simple interactive sites, using a proxy to manage your state and side effects may be enough.
Join us for a dynamic exploration of FastAPI, a modern Python framework for API development.
An object map is a place to document information about objects in your digital system, keeping everyone involved on the same page. During our conversation, we walk through examples and discuss the benefits of using object maps.
During our conversation we look at 3 examples of unintuitive web design, and learn how to create websites and apps that are more intuitive using object-oriented user experience (OOUX) design strategies.
During our conversation, we discuss what htmx is, how it improves user experience, and walk through some examples of common UI patterns using htmx.
If you’ve ever found yourself in a specificity war, you’ll understand how important having control over style priority can be. During our conversation, we discussed what CSS Layers are and how you can use them in your project.