Frontend development is experiencing a quiet renaissance. While frameworks and build tools constantly cycle in and out of the spotlight, the foundational language of the web—Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)—continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. Modern CSS has quietly expanded far beyond basic layout and coloring, encroaching upon territory once exclusively reserved for JavaScript and […]
Moving Beyond JavaScript: A Deep Dive Into the W3C’s Proposed CSS Navigation and Route-Matching Spec
The evolution of modern web development has long been characterized by a division of labor: layout and aesthetics belong to CSS, behavior and application state belong to JavaScript, and structure belongs to HTML. Over the last decade, however, that boundary has begun to blur. Features that once required heavy scripting—such as animations, scoping, layout containment, […]