Sunrise run to beat the heat. Still pretty warm.
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Rachel Andrew
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Content lead for Chrome DevRel at Google. Opinions (and cats) my own.
I didn't intend to spend my lunchbreak bathing a cat, but when you can smell the cat before you see the cat, it's time.
Happy to publish a post from the Microsoft team about the work to implement gap decorations for multicol, grid, and flex layouts. You'll soon be able to add a border round grid items, for example! Check out the demos in Chrome Canary https://developer.chrome.com/blog/gap-decorations
AI6YR BenThis is great!
Flightaware: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
My talk from CSS Day covering multicol, fragmentation, the new gap decorations spec, why printing from the browser sucks despite the fact we have specs that could make it better, exclusions, and regions.
https://noti.st/rachelandrew/mI9WWD/multicol-and-fragmentation
Multicol and Fragmentation by Rachel Andrew
I’m the cheerleader for boring things in CSS, the bits of connective tissue that enable other things. This talk shares just some of the things I’ve been thinking about. Starting with multicol and fragmentation, through CSS for print, gap decorations for grid, and what happened to exclusions and regions.
Patrick BrossetThe ability to style grid and flex gaps is coming fast in a browser near you!
Bubbling with ideas for what this will be useful for!
Code: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/Demos/tree/main/css-gap-decorations
Take a look at my talk from I/O along with the companion blog post that rounds up all of the links mentioned. It's been a very exciting year for the web, and all the new Baseline tooling we've just announced can help you understand when to adopt these new features. https://web.dev/blog/whats-new-in-web-io2025
