A newsletter by Anselm Hannemann
Every other week, a hand-picked list of articles about building the web: CSS, accessibility, performance, tooling and the human side of the work. Each link with a few words on why it matters.
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Thanks to the Open UI working community group, there’s a new element on the horizon, <selectmenu>, that will make styling this type of form control a whole lot better. Let’s walk through an early implementation of this new experimental element by creating a pattern that you would never have thought possible with CSS alone — a radial selection menu.
Working with Figma? Here are some great tips that your developers will love you for while your design will look more awesome. Remember that you can use Figma like a static px-based tool that’s not much better than Photoshop or like a web-tool that’s really useful for developers.
Stefan Judis wrote a nice View Transitions example with only a few lines of code.
Ideas don’t stand on their own. When a good idea turns into a good thing, it’s because structure and systems. The discipline of design is the commitment to structuring and systematizing good ideas. I’ve seen just too many ideas failing because of a lack of structure and commitment.
Learn how to build tooltips, menus, and more with the new popover API, available in Chrome and coming to others soon. Exciting times ahead!
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Fantastic week full of super news by Anselm again. This newsletter is added to my RSS feed and it’s one of the best sources of news for devs. Huge huge respect for putting these things together for us mate!
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