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Mr. Robert's Blog - a curated collection of the web blogs.

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Chris

A cartoon Chris!!

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Alex A

Alex's blog collection

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Alex E

The cooler Alex

Alex E

April

A sad koala hugging a tree.

April

Bryce franco

A cold cat

Bryce F

Trevor

My personal Gravatar

Trevor

Wyatt Simonar (Ark Racer)

My logo, which I designed myself using Canva and Bitmoji.

Wyatt Simonar (Ark Racer)

Torin

Hornet from video games Hollow Knight & Silksong

Hornet from Hollow Knight / Silksong
(image © Team Cherry)

Torin

Anna

Hi! I'm Anna, please click my links!

Anna

William

Heyo, I'm William

William

Pull Quotes

CSS display: contents is a useful feature when you don’t have control over some parts of the HTML and can make you achieve things that aren’t possible without markup change.

Ahmad Shadeed
CSS Display Contents

Masonry Layout: "the term “masonry” for layout is used to describe the kind of grid layout where instead of items of various heights being aligned in neat horizontal rows, they are shifted to fill the leftover space, effectively creating a brickwork effect."

- Michelle Barker -
CSS Masonry Layout

“A cross-browser feature as of the release of Firefox 128 in July 2024 is a new at-rule - @property - which allows defining types as well as inheritance and an initial value for your custom properties.”

— Stephanie Eckles Modern CSS- #35

“Tables perhaps aren’t the most exciting things to build on the web, but they’re important for certain types of data, and full of little quirks that can trip you up — as well as interesting things to learn!”

— Michelle Barker Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way

“I wish more people took HTML more seriously. I wish more people were good at HTML and understood its power and capabilities. I wish more people knew why HTML is so fast and why it's almost always preferred. It's knowledge that's made me a good living!”

— Harry Roberts HTML is Not a Programming Language

"Halftone is defined as a reproduction of an image in which dark and light variations in tone are produced by variously sized dots. It was originally invented as a technique for printing images in journals and other publications at a time when other printing processes were prohibitively expensive. You might have come across the style in older comic books, where colour reproduction was limited."

— Stephanie Eckles What is Halftone?

“In the article "Pure CSS Custom Checkbox Style," Stephanie Eckles shows us how to create custom, accessible checkboxes without JavaScript. They are themeable, scalable and have cross-browser support.”

— Stephanie Eckles Pure CSS Custom Checkbox Style

"I'm not against front-end frameworks, and, believe me, I'm not naïve enough to believe that the only thing a front-end framework provides is soft navigations, but if you're going to use one, I shouldn't be able to smell it.

If you're going to go all-in on a framework or, heaven forbid, an SPA, give the long term some serious consideration, and make sure you do a really, really good job."

— "Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web" (CSS Wizadry Blog) "Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web"

“For a very long time, the most-requested CSS feature has been container queries. That's been our holy grail, the biggest missing piece in the CSS toolkit. Well, container queries have finally arrived. They've been supported in all major browsers for almost two years. Our prayers have been answered!”

— Josh W. Comeau A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

"Accessibility is a critical skill for developers doing work at any point in the stack. For front-end tasks, modern CSS provides capabilities we can leverage to make layouts more accessibly inclusive for users of all abilities across any device."

- Stephanie Eckles Upgrades To Improve Accessibility

— Josh W. Comeau A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries