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Probability distributions over CSS codes: two-universality, QKD hashing, collision bounds, security
Pete Rigas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02402 https://arx…

Probability distributions over CSS codes: two-universality, QKD hashing, collision bounds, security
We characterize novel probability distributions for CSS codes. Such classes of error correcting codes, originally introduced by Calderbank, Shor, and Steane, are of great significance in advancing the fidelity of Quantum computation, with implications for future near term applications. Within the context of Quantum key distribution, such codes, as examined by Ostrev in arXiv: 2109.06709 along with two-universal hashing protocols, have greatly simplified Quantum phases of computation for uncondi…

TFW you're spelunking through generated HTML/CSS trying figure out where the unwanted white space is coming from…

Got bored. Made this. #CSS

Remember how grumpy I was with CSS making things `inert` (for CSS carousels)?
Well, CSSWG is doubling down, using it to justify more wrongness.
Brian notes the false equivalency:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13040#issuecomment-3487102861

[css-ui] `interactivity: focusable` · Issue #13040 · w3c/csswg-drafts
Motivation The ability to make elements focusable via CSS has come up before by @frivoal. There is already precedent in controlling focusability via CSS, just not directly, but as a side effect of ...

Schaut mal hier .. so einfach kann Anis mit SVG sein ;D
#svg

A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau
SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most important fundamentals, and show you some of the ridiculously-cool things we can do with this massively underrated tool. ✨

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
CSS:
🎵 Rat Is Dead (Rage)
#CSS
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AOXozfpnC78IryKqkS8Ys

I refactored another one of my small intranet tools to get rid of jQuery. I have to say, it's a bit of a chore to write document.getElementById() so much. jQuery's $("#...") is so much shorter. Likewise, addEventListener() is longer than on(). That sucks a bit.
But apart from that it's nice to remove a framework and lots of <div> tags and replace it with techniques that browsers have built into them like CSS (or accordion widgets using the <details> tag…

strongest mind in the history of compiler development howeve,r it is so fragile as to shatter at the lightest touch of a css layout issue

“Honestly, I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. When the discourse is being dominated by people invested in frameworks and libraries, all our default thinking will involve frameworks and libraries. That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”
Mic drop by @…

Simplify
Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

The Smashing Magazine comment form is still broken, so I’m memorializing the comment I _wanted_ to leave about CSS carousels:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html#Update06 (anchor)
Includes quote fr…

My Request to Google on Accessibility
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…

I know you people learnt #frontend #WebDevelopment mostly online...
But could any of you recommend a **GOOD** book on #CSS (preferably as up to date as possible)?

Question for the ether: I have an *old* WordPress site backed up. Not sure on exact version, but from 2009. I have all of the files, but no database (or at least no .SQL export file; I may have the literal files of the db, not sure).
I want to run the site locally on Windows, so that I can see what it looked like. Don't really need content, just mainly the layout and page structure, CSS, basically the theme is what I want to recover. Is this possible? #wordpress #indieweb

CSS gone wrong. #uxfromhell

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic' https://www.404media.co/automattic-automatic-trademark-matt-mullenweg-kevin-geary/

when the paywall CSS is accessible but also inaccessible

On Website Technicals (2020-08) - Tech updates: Review rework, CSS contain and large pages, AutoAds and floats, moar moves, reviews fixed, MODBUS et al, Brotli, FAQ droop. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-39.html

On Website Technicals (2020-08)
Tech updates: Review rework, CSS contain and large pages, AutoAds and floats, moar moves, reviews fixed, MODBUS et al, Brotli, FAQ droop.

I missed this one:
#12886 [css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12886
Essentially a discussion how responsive text can satisfy 1.4.4, especially in this fit-to-container pitch from Google.
I added a comment …

[css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit · Issue #12886 · w3c/csswg-drafts
In the original issue we received valuable feedback that a native fit-to-width solution can potentially introduce a simple way for authors to violate Success Criterion 1.4.4 Resize Text, in the sam...

I hadn't built a website with WordPress for several years, and the truth is that it has advanced a lot.
In my day (cough! cough! cough!), sooner or later I had to touch some PHP, tweak the styles directly in the child theme's styles.css, and even fight with JS.
Nowadays, there's a plugin for everything, all kinds of templates, builders, add-ons for plugins... It's crazy.
What I really don't like is that many paid plugins, which used to be “buy & use…

I appreciate posts that give approaches with reasoning:
https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/visually-hidden/
But I wish these posts would reference prior art, such as:
• Scott’s

Essential Visually Hidden CSS Techniques for Web Accessibility
Fix vanishing focus indicators & conflicting sr-only classes. Learn the 3-state visibility model that transforms CSS hacks into logical accessibility decisions.

somebody should tell rstudio developers about the <style> tag

thinking abt the time a random 14 year old nonbinary aspiring video editor in sacremento stumbled on my site thru neocities like 3 years ago and emailed me telling me i was the coolest person theyd ever seen online and asked for css advice for their wip site and i gave it and never heard from or saw them again

A Pearl in the Shell: an ultra-compact dwarf within the tidal debris surrounding spiral galaxy NGC 7531
David Mart\'inez-Delgado, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Yimeng Tang, Joanna D. Sakowska, Denis Erkal, Juan Mir\'o-Carretero, Giuseppe Donatiello, Sepideh Eskandarlou, Mark Hanson, Dustin Lang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14038

A Pearl in the Shell: an ultra-compact dwarf within the tidal debris surrounding spiral galaxy NGC 7531
Stellar substructures within tidal debris preserve information about their progenitor galaxies' properties, offering insights into hierarchical mass assembly. We examine a compact stellar system (CSS) around the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 7531, including the shell-like tidal debris. Our goals are to determine the nature of the CSS, reconstruct the accretion history, and understand how the large, diffuse shell-like structure formed. We present photometric measurements of the shell-like debris and …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
CSS:
🎵 Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
#CSS
https://cocolah.bandcamp.com/track/lets-make-love-and-listen-to-death-from-above
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Jd9W7k8DTnBSovDSxK77n

»Just use HTML — JavaScript is…
- Slower to load
- Slower to run
- More prone to breaking
- Harder to read and reason about
- Doesn’t actually look like the final output«
Don't use JavaScript for the design, because CSS as well as SVG images can create a lot of animation and the ability to create a dynamic web interface.
🧑‍💻

Just use HTML
I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way. I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and enhancing what’s already there, and adding interactivity that canno…

@… the last time I tried to do a CSS in Tailwind it had that same look

WebKit Bug 277290 AX: Scrolling containers inoperable with keyboard (July 2024, critical):
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277290
I’m betting if we can convince the Google Chrome team that this is preventing uptake of CSS carousels they’ll dispatch an engineer to fix i…

Get half off CSS in Depth eBook (and all other Manning eBooks) today only!
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Reminds me of a tactic I used in my adapted Suckerfish fly-outs a millennia ago (b&w arrows for nested items so clients could use any color).
“Taking a shot at the double focus ring problem using modern CSS”
https://piccalil.li/blog/taking-a-shot

Taking a shot at the double focus ring problem using modern CSS
A double focus ring is really useful in general but especially so with complex, themed systems. Eric Bailey shows us how to develop a really smart system, using modern CSS.

If you are watching CART via Otter•ai and need the scrollbars at all (to scroll, to see where you are in the page, etc), then you can fix the WCAG SC 1.4.11 and 2.5.5 failures by adding this CSS to the page:
```
.otter-scrollbar {
scrollbar-width: unset;
scrollbar-color: unset;
}
```

ugh wikipedia’s css has disabled my browser zoom feature so the font size is fixed at tiny even tho my appearance preferences say “large” :-(

Well this is disappointing.

Please add this tiny bit-o-CSS for stable scrollbar gutters to your Reset Stylesheets
https://www.zachleat.com/web/stable-scrollbar-gutters/

Praxisbeispiel, wie man mit CSS einen Artikel anschaulich macht.

✍️ New post: Visu­al Regres­sion Testing for Exter­nal URLs With Playwright
#blogtober #webdev #css #testing

Visual Regression Testing for External URLs With Playwright · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

AI: use "minimal utility CS classes" like one class to set padding right, another for margin top, one more for height,...
Me:
(ofc this styling approach didn't start with AI)
#webdev #CSS #AI #LLM #sarcasm #opinion

Had an amazing time speaking about Web Design Engineering at @… Freiburg last week! 🎉 It was an honour to be invited and to meet so many wonderful people and good friends there – a truly smashing experience! Thank you, everyone! 🤗💚🎈
📸 Photos by @…

I, too, think some of the efforts of the CSSWG have gotten ahead of the use cases and I, too, think catching our breath would be good.
“Chris’ Corner: Stage 2”
https://blog.codepen.io/2025/10/20/chris-corner-stage-2/

✍️ New post: Linear() Is Not Linear
#blogtober #CSS #animations #easing

Linear() Is Not Linear · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

When I see “accessible by default” I am broadly wary:
https://cdpn.io/jh3y/debug/JoGpOGV
I found a WCAG violation in about four seconds (2.4.7). Never mind aria-hiding those up/down arrows (who doesn’t like to mess with sighted SR users?).
Anyway “accessible by default” from CSS influencers…

A read-only text field is focusable. And confusing to users.
If you add `tabindex="-1"` and/or `pointer-events: none`, admit it’s wrong and make it plain text instead.
If you use it anyway, style it so it’s clear (good luck). Here are my shitty styles: https://adrianroselli.com/…

Under-Engineered Text Boxen
Others in this sorta-series: Under-Engineered Custom Radio Buttons and Checkboxen Under-Engineered Toggles Under-Engineered Toggles Too This is the latest, and not last, in my informal series of posts on under-engineered controls. Generally I am looking at the minimum amount of CSS necessary to style native HTML controls while also retaining…

Tell me you don’t understand ARIA (nor accNames) without telling me.
#a11y #accessibility #ARIA #CSS