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Container queries without the rewrite: a seven-day migration
Swapping every media query in one afternoon is why teams abandon container queries. Here is the slower path that gets you there with your sprint intact.
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What to use, what to drop, and the browser support behind both. Layout, cascade layers, and the occasional trick we needed to bury.
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Cascade layers, and when they stop helping
Layers fix specificity wars. They do not fix a design system with no opinions.
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Subgrid is here. What it actually replaces
Not "grid, but nested". Subgrid replaces the hacks you wrote to line up things that are not siblings.
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The four CSS properties that trigger layout
Animate the wrong property and every frame re-measures the page. Animate the right one and the compositor handles it alone.
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Writing a design system that survives its second year
Year one is components. Year two is everything the components could not predict, which is where systems die.
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content-visibility, measured on a real page
One property that tells the browser to skip work for anything off screen. The numbers are good, and the caveats are real.
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Dark mode without doubling your stylesheet
If dark mode doubled your CSS, the problem was never dark mode. It was that your colours were never tokens.
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Logical properties, and the day the site went RTL
Writing margin-inline-start instead of margin-left costs nothing today and saves a month the first time somebody asks for Arabic.