Grid Lanes – The Future of Masonry Layout
This long-debated solution for masonry layout is now available and it’s time to figure out how to use it. Join us for a deep dive into the workings of Grid Lanes.
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Winging It post typeSurprising Effects of CSS Shorthands
CSS properties come in two excellent flavors – longhand properties have a direct impact on the element, while shorthand properties take a much more convoluted path. There’s a lot going on when we use a shorthand property, with hidden surprises, and reasons we might use one or the other.
Winging It post typeDos & Don’ts of Anchor Positioning
CSS anchor positioning isn’t baseline yet, and there’s good reason for that. You can use it, but it comes with some caveats. James, Stacy, and Miriam cover new resources to make anchor positioning easier, and work through some demos to help you understand how anchor positioning works. We also look…
Winging It post typeQuick & Easy UI Wins (for real)
Hidden gems of UI development
Join Stacy, James, and Miriam as we explore some hidden gems of UI development – from
@starting-stylefor smoother entry transitions to performance boosts with AVIF images and using the browser’s built-in lazy-loading. We cover a variety of quick wins that you can use to make your life easier and…
Winging It post typeResponsive Type Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
Building a type scale for your website
Miriam has spent a lot of time digging into the different approaches, the math involved, the user implications, and the ways modern CSS can help us out. There are equations and graphs! But you don’t need anything that complicated to build a type scale for your next site. With the…
Winging It post typeCSS Scope & Mixins
A chat with Chris Coyier
At the end of 2025, Firefox added the CSS
@scoperule – making the new feature available across all major browsers! Since Chris Coyier has done a fair amount of writing and speaking on the topic, we wanted to talk with him about what that means. Chris has also been…
2025
Winging It post typeCSS IS AWESOME Game 2
With special guests Adam Argyle, Cassondra Roberts, and Dave Rupert
The second annual CSS is Awesome Game was a heated battle between a few of our favorite CSS professionals including Adam Argyle, Cassondra Roberts, Dave Rupert, and Miriam Suzanne. If you love CSS as much as we do, we hope you will play along and enjoy the challenge.
Winging It post typeCross-Browser Anchor Positioning
Anchor Positioning is available in all browsers. What’s next, with Eric Meyer.
It’s finally here! With the release of Firefox 145, CSS anchor positioning is available in all browsers. It’s still behind a flag in Firefox, so it isn’t Baseline Newly available quite yet. Join James Stuckey Weber, Miriam Suzanne, and Eric Meyer of Igalia as they talk about the emerging patterns…
Winging It post typeBad UX Design Patterns
Managing complex navigation with guest Clayton Dewey
OddBirds, Stacy and Sondra, along with special guest Clayton Dewey of Dev Collaborative, face off against bad UX design patterns. They get into the weeds trying to address some of the thorniest, perennial UX design questions - managing complex navigation, intuitive user flow, is there such a thing as a…
Winging It post typeMixins & Functions to Streamline CSS
With special guest Roma Komarov
The CSS Working Group got together in August to discuss a range of old and new issues. The following week, Miriam Suzanne and Stacy Kvernmo chatted with CSS expert Roma Komarov about how to create reusable and more flexible CSS using mixins and functions, what happened in the CSSWG meetings…
Winging It post typeContainer queries are widely available!
Happy 30-month anniversary to Container Queries – shipping in every browser since February of 2023. It was supposed to be impossible, but here we are!
Winging It post typeAvoid this mistake when anchor positioning a popover!
Are you positioning a popover with CSS anchor positioning and
position-area? Make sure to override the default margins on the popover.
Winging It post typeThere’s a new stretch keyword in CSS?
There’s a new stretch keyword that we can use for CSS
heightandwidthproperties. But how is that different from100%? And how is that different from100vhwhen we want a full-height layout?
Winging It post typeTools for Developers
With special guest Kilian Valkhof
Kilian Valkhof, Miriam Suzanne, and James Stuckey Weber talk about developer tools including the Polypane browser and other accessibility tools.
Winging It post typeWhat’s New in CSS
CSS Q&A Party
Miriam Suzanne and Stacy Kvernmo answer questions from listeners about CSS – what the next big evolution for CSS may be, how to make a site more accessible, whether float is still useful, and what’s on their CSS wish list.
Winging It post typeTake Command with Invokers
With special guest Luke Warlow
Learn how to declaratively add behavior to buttons with the Invoker Commands API. Join James Stuckey Weber and Miriam Suzanne for a live conversation with special guest Luke Warlow, Web Platform Engineer at Igalia.
Winging It post typeRevisiting Fluid Type
With special guest Richard Rutter
Miriam’s been asking questions about fluid typography, and how a website design should plan for (and respond to) user preferences. And we’re not the only ones thinking about it! This month we continue the conversation with Richard Rutter from Clearleft, the experts behind excellent resources like Utopia.fyi and WebTypography.net.
Winging It post typeDebugging CSS Anchor Positioning
With special guest Tab Atkins-Bittner
It is frustrating to track down why an anchor isn’t being found. James and Miriam talk with Tab Atkins-Bittner about ways to troubleshoot CSS Anchor Positioning issues, and dive into the details to get a better understanding of how Anchor Positioning works.
Winging It post typeRelative Units & Typography
With special guest Alan Stearns
Join Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, and special guest Alan Stearns – typography enthusiast, co-chair of the CSS Working Group, and self-described CSS Panjandrum – for a conversation about typography. Responsive Typography has been around for at least a decade in various forms, but has become even more popular with tools…
2024
CSS IS AWESOME Game
With special guests Michelle Barker, Stephanie Eckles, Kevin Powell, and Henri Helvetica
On December 17, 1996, the W3C published the first standard for CSS, and we celebrated the anniversary on Winging It! Michelle Barker, Stephanie Eckles, Kevin Powell, and Henri Helvetica joined us for our “CSS Is Awesome” game. If you love CSS as much as we do, we hope you will…
Winging It post typeBaseline and Web Features
What happens when you set out to categorize every API and property of the web? OddBird has been documenting CSS for the Web Features project. Join us as we explore some fascinating rabbit trails, edge cases, and insights into the web platform that we’ve encountered along the way.
Winging It post typeLearn CSS Grid - Part 2
In July we talked with Stephanie Eckles about how (and why) you can get started working grids into your CSS toolkit. As requested, this is part two of our dive into CSS grids. We address your questions about strategy – demoing how we plan and apply grid layouts, starting with…
Winging It post typeWeb Components
With special guest Zach Leatherman
Web Components are a polarizing feature that seem simultaneously old news and not quite ready for production yet. But we’ve been making things with Web Components, and finding some areas where they really work well. Join us, along with special guest Zach Leatherman of 11ty, to hear more about how…
Winging It post typeLearn CSS Grid First
With special guest Stephanie Eckles
We talk with Stephanie Eckles – the brain behind ModernCSS.dev and SmolCSS.dev – about CSS grids. We look at a few of the most common grid patterns, to show you how (and why) you can get started working grids into your CSS toolkit!
Winging It post typeUsing New Color Formats
Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, and James Stuckey Weber demo how to use new color formats with OddContrast, a color tool for previewing, accessibility testing, and selecting the format/space.
Winging It post typeCSS Anchor Positioning in Practice
What is Anchor Positioning? Why is it exciting? What can you use it for? How does the polyfill work? Join James Stuckey Weber and Miriam Suzanne as they talk through these questions and answer yours in our monthly live stream.
Winging It post typeCSS Container Queries in Practice
Miriam Suzanne and Stacy Kvernmo talk about CSS Container Queries and the unexpected things that happen when you add containment. Some elements completely collapse! What’s going on there? We had questions and thought you might too. So we talk through the issue in our monthly live stream.
Winging It post typeProxy State
For simple interactive sites, using a proxy to manage your state and side effects may be enough.
Winging It post typeStreamline Your API Development with FastAPI
Join us for a dynamic exploration of FastAPI, a modern Python framework for API development.
2023
Winging It post typeAlign Designers and Developers with OOUX
An object map is a place to document information about objects in your digital system, keeping everyone involved on the same page. During our conversation, we walk through examples and discuss the benefits of using object maps.
Winging It post typeIntuitive Web Design with OOUX
During our conversation we look at 3 examples of unintuitive web design, and learn how to create websites and apps that are more intuitive using object-oriented user experience (OOUX) design strategies.
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Winging It post typehtmx
During our conversation, we discuss what htmx is, how it improves user experience, and walk through some examples of common UI patterns using htmx.
Winging It post typeCSS Cascade Layers
If you’ve ever found yourself in a specificity war, you’ll understand how important having control over style priority can be. During our conversation, we discussed what CSS Layers are and how you can use them in your project.
