A brief review of 2013: OddBird, year six.
As we wrap up our sixth year, it seems like a good time to share our first-ever year-end retrospective. Here’s 2013, OddBird style:
Thanks for a great year, everyone. See you around in 2014!
— the Odds Bird
Are we responding to the right inputs?
For many years, it has been ‘best practice’ to use relative units (especially em and rem) for sizing text. That’s great! But after playing around with my user preferences, I think we can improve on the common approaches.
How to find an anchor element
It is frustrating to track down why an anchor isn’t being found. I’ve found a simple way that should work in most cases. If that doesn’t work, step through the checklist, and then dive in to get a better understanding of how Anchor Positioning works.
New layouts will be possible
The more I play with it, the more convinced I am that anchor positioning is going to unlock some surprising new layouts.