Six questions for Paul McFedries, author of Web Design Playground: HTML and CSS the Interactive Way
Paul McFedries is a web designer, instructor, and the author of more than 100 books. You can find him all over the internet, including his own website.
From Web Components in Action by Benjamin Farrell
This article covers:
• Component and Class Encapsulation
• How the Shadow DOM Protects Your Component’s DOM
• The Open and Closed Shadow DOM
• Shadow DOM Terminology: Shadow Root, Shadow Boundary, and Shadow Host
• Polyfilling With the Shady DOM
From Web Components in Action by Ben Farrell
This article walks you through the creation of your first web component.
From CSS in Depth by Keith J. Grant
Just what is Modular CSS? Read this article and find out!
From CSS in Depth by Keith J. Grant
This article takes a look at the three principles of responsive design. We will start building a responsive page, and I’ll unpack each of them as we go. After that, we’ll take a look at images, which require some special considerations on responsive sites.
From CSS in Depth by Keith J. Grant
This article delves deep into grid layout in CSS, how it works, and how you can make it work for you. Grid layout is also contrasted and compared to Flexbox.
From Progressive Web Apps by Dean Hume
In this article, we are going to learn about what makes a web app “progressive” and how you can unlock the powerful functionality that already lies within your browser. We will also delve into “Service Workers” – the new feature that makes PWAs possible in the first place.
From CSS in Depth by Keith J. Grant
In this article we’ll begin with the “C” in “CSS”, the cascade. I’ll articulate how it works, then show you how to work with it practically.