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A curated roundup of recent CSS and web development resources covering view transitions for maintaining video state across pages, techniques for naming media queries using cascade layers, CSS resets, browser internals, CSS layout fundamentals, upcoming CSS masonry (grid-lanes), theming animations with relative color syntax, overlay UI patterns (modals vs pages), and text scaling support being trialed in Chrome Canary.

What’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More

Maintaining video state across different pages using view transitions

CSS masonry is (probably) just around the corner

Theming animations using relative color syntax

Modals vs. pages (and everything in-between)

Text scaling support is being trialed in Chrome Canary