RPX Blog
The RPX Blog is a collection of links, articles and videos related to web development that we find useful, interesting or relavent to our clients. We'll try and contribute our own thoughts whenever possible.
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Back to School
Monday, September 1, 2025
There has been a ton of really high-quality front-end design courses (by some of the best educators in the field) set to release over the next few months. And we're always on the lookout for ways to grow and evolve our skill set. Here are a few we're especially interested in.
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Conditional statements coming to CSS
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Una Kravets from the Chrome team has posted a new blog detailing conditional IF statements coming to CSS. They will look something like this:
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6 CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Adam Argyle over at Nerdy.dev has just posted a great list of CSS Snippets, including a cross-page implementation for View Transitions (we have been messing around with that a little here on RPX.dev), Custom Properties and some very cool transitions for the popover and dialog elements.
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CSS 2024 Round-Up
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
The results from this year's State of CSS survey are in (also HTML and JavaScript). This year 9,704 developers from over 20 countries responded. Some of this years most popular features were CSS Filter Effects (contrast/blur) and the :has() pseudo-class. Take a look at the full results here:
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The WordPress Drama, Explained
Sunday, December 1, 2024
It's unlikely to really effect WordPress or it's popularity, but for anyone wondering what is currently going on with WordPress and it's parent company Automattic, here's a quick explination via The Verge.
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CSS Scroll-Driven Animations
Monday, November 18, 2024
CSS champion and educator Kevin Powell has posted a great in-depth video on scroll-timeline and creating scroll-based animations using the new scroll() and view() functions.
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Extremely Cool 1-Bit Dithering Effect
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
We came across this incredibly cool 1-bit style code pen awhile back and wanted to share.It uses a CSS dithering technique to create a halftone pattern. Notice the submit button even has a roll-over effect.