CSS-Only Scroll-Driven AnimationsScroll-linked animations look slick, but until now it often meant writing a fair amount of JavaScript, scroll event listeners, getBoundingClientRect(), class toggling and so on, with UX benefits often offset by performance downsides.
CSS scroll-drive...
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Daniel Cranney
Tether Elements Without JavaScript with CSS Anchor PositioningConsidering how powerful CSS is, positioning elements relative to other ones for components like tooltips has often involved JavaScript along the way, revealing a weakness in the CSS spec.
Well, baseline since 2026, CSS anchor positioning makes it mu...
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Daniel Cranney, Chris Heilmann
The Overflow: AI and Agentic CodingIn this week’s Overflow - where we shared links we just couldn’t fit in the Dev Digest but were too good to ignore - we’re looking at what’s been happening in the world of AI, coding agents and automation.
As always, you can see this in video form or...
The Overflow: 5 CSS Generators and Visual Design ToolsIf you’ve read The Overflow before you’ll know it’s where we take some time you show you our favourite tools from around the web that we simply couldn’t fit into the always-packed Dev Digest.
This time, we’re looking at five tools for generating CSS ...
Why We Should Be Using the <search> Element MoreWhen you consider how integral search elements to user interfaces and user experience more general, you might be surprised to learn they were only introduced to the HTML spec in 2023.
If you’ve ever built a search bar in HTML, it could well have look...
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Daniel Cranney
Dev Digest 211: Securing Agents, Top AI Apps and Lost Readers…Inside last week’s Dev Digest 211 .
🏗️ Can the infrastructure keep up with AI growth?
📱 Top 100 GenAI consumer apps
🪱 Wikipedia hit by worm and AI slop
🔍 The results of Codex Security scanning 1.2M commits
🧹 Bye bye innerHTML, welcome setHTML()
🔄 Cl...
