Lesser-Known and Underused CSS Features in 2022(smashingmagazine.com)
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Lesser-Known and Underused CSS Features in 2022
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/lesser-known-underused-css-features-2022/
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I've been using currentColor for almost 10 years to implement an animated glow effect when hovering over links.
currentColor comes in handy with SVG's too. https://jsfiddle.net/gRoberts/nsjb2dyp/
D'oh, I couldn't read the article as it was throwing a 500 error but now it's working I see that they highlighted this.
D'oh, I couldn't read the article as it was throwing a 500 error but now it's working I see that they highlighted this.
I still wrestle with just trying to get the basics to do what I expect.
Also, I worry about the efficiency of the engines that handle all this complexity. How much of a CPU is getting used up to render complex CSS?
Modern CSS is already Turing complete. I wonder how much longer before we have to compile our CSS into some VM byte code for acceptable performance.
And at what point do we say this hodge-podged design has gotten out of hand and we need to go back and build from scratch?