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Bram Smulders, Front-end UI developer

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CSS Cascade Layers

CSS Cascade Layers, another tool in the box for working with specificity & the cascade. And a very welcome one at that! I’m collecting helpfull resources on the topic: A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers by Miriam Suzanne Hello, CSS Cascade Layers by Ahmad Shadeed The Future of CSS: Cascade Layers (CSS @layer ) by Bramus Van Damme CSS Cascade Layers: An overview of the new @layer and layer()…

In defence of the URL

On August 12 2020 the Chrome security team posted an article about how people and users perceive URLs . In short they are currently running an experiment in Chrome 86: In Chrome 86, we’re likewise going to experiment with how URLs are shown in the address bar on desktop platforms. Our goal is to understand -- through real-world usage -- whether showing URLs this way helps users realize they’re…

Structured Front-end components

This article is an in depth follow up on the talk I gave at the Fronteers meetup at e-sites . In 2013 I wrote an article about structuring CSS with Smacss & Sass . Since then I read up on new techniques and changed my workflow here and there to accommodate modern web projects. Many things have changed over the years, but the basics remain the same. The problem with Smacss In that time I found…

Atomic Design talk at Fronteers meetup

On the 24th of January in 2017 I will be talking about Atomic Design at the Fronteers meetup at E-sites . It will be the first time I‘ll speak at such an event so I‘m very excited! Talking about structured Front-end workflows however is in my nature and part of my daily work. My talk The talk will be about Atomic Design and how to incorporate this methodology into your front-end workflow. I will…

How I improved my workflow with SMACSS & Sass

Update: 27-02-2017 I wrote an extensive new article about Structuring Front-end Components . A couple of months ago I passed by Jonathan Snook's SMACSS website while browsing the web. After reading the SMACSS core articles I felt a bit awkward about how I organised and crafted my CSS. My CSS was quite unorganised and the only pattern used was the waterfall pattern; Work your way from the header…