News Jace Pro
News, acquisitions, companies, people, events, and public filings in one searchable place. No vendor press-release fog.
The signal desk
What are you trying to understand?
The latest
We know that everything on the web is a box by default, but you’ll find many animated <div>s pretending to be circles. But if you’ve ever met a real <circle>, you’ll know that they’ve got a lot more going for them. Dressed in SVG, they fit into a wider rang...
Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re always poking at but always putting under a “lack of browser support” caveat? The Big Th...
Like ’em or loath ’em, whether you’re showing an alert, a message, or a newsletter signup, dialogue boxes draw attention to a particular piece of content without sending someone...
I mentioned [last time](https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-css-border-image/) that I’ve been working on a new website for Emmy-award-winning game composer Mike Worth. He hired me...
In my last article on [“Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout”](https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-css-multi-column-layout/), I mentioned that almost twenty years have flown by sinc...
Honestly, it’s difficult for me to come to terms with, but almost 20 years have passed since I wrote my first book, _Transcending CSS_. In it, I explained how and why to use wha...
SVG animations take me back to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons I watched as a kid. Shows like _Wacky Races_, _The Perils of Penelope Pitstop_, and, of course, [_Yogi Bear_](https://e...
The SMIL specification was introduced by the W3C in 1998 for synchronizing multimedia. This was long before CSS animations or JavaScript-based animation libraries were available...
Despite keyframes and scroll-driven events, CSS animations have remained relatively rudimentary. As I wrote in [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/smashing-animati...
Browser makers didn’t take long to add the movement capabilities to CSS. The simple :hover pseudo-class came first, and a bit later, the transitions between two states. Then cam...
