🆕 What Defines “Modern” CSS Today?
Tags: css, design, web3, frontend
Published: 2023-11-09 17:00:00

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🔎 Designing Forms  
👀 CSS Functions That Might Surprise You  
🌐 Defining "Modern" CSS

Enjoy this weeks edition 👋 - Adam at Unicorn Club.  

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### 🎨 Design

[**The design manager’s toolkit**](https://uxdesign.cc/design-managers-toolkit-ebd88688a2ff?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Take the best of being a designer and create a durable playbook for handling challenges as a manager

[**Why designers design forms**](https://grillopress.github.io/2023/10/27/why-we-design-forms.html?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Designers make sure policies, products and people are as successful as they can be

### 🖌️ CSS

[**A Couple of New CSS Functions I’d Never Heard Of**](https://chriscoyier.net/2023/10/17/a-couple-of-new-css-functions-id-never-heard-of/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

The article discusses several new CSS functions including light-dark() that simplifies theme handling, xywh() for creating basic shapes

[**What Exactly is “Modern” CSS?**](https://geoffgraham.me/what-exactly-is-modern-css/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

I was flipping through my RSS feed, noticing how many times “Modern” is popping up in post titles.

[**CSS Selectors/Combinators Classifier**](https://selectors.info/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Organize and highlight CSS selectors and combinators by types.

### 🧑‍💻 Browser

[**You're Gonna Need A Bigger Browser**](https://berjon.com/bigger-browser/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

If we're agreed that the Web is for user agency, then in order to figure out where the Web goes next we should probably spend some time looking at user agents a.k.a. browsers.

[**Select element: now with horizontal rules**](https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/hr-in-select/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

The select element gets a small but mighty upgrade in Chrome 119, with a feature that also landed in Safari 17.

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