Making intrinsic ratio elements with a max height
Here's something that took me longer than I care to admit to figure out how to do. I have a photoblog where I post the photos I take; I like to display them at high resolution, but when they're in a portrait orientation (like this one), you...
Build iOS-like transparency effects with CSS
Like the existing -webkit-filter property, -webkit-backdrop-filter allows you to apply effects such as blur, grayscale, hue-rotate, and others, only instead of applying them to the element itself, they’re applied to whatever is behind the element.
Take a peek at the code that powered The Verge 50
Last December, The Verge published The Verge 50, one of our earliest examples of our Editorial Apps system built by VP of Technology Pablo Mercado during last October's VAX hackathon, inspired by the work done by the NPR Visuals team. In a...
Bigger, faster, leaner: The Verge 1.8 brings many improvements to its front page
Written by Brent Laverty, Steve McKinney, and Guillermo Esteves Our recent front page redesign can trace many of its roots to the CES 2013 hub we launched in January to cover all the developments out of the show. We used the hub, more or less, as...
Introducing CampfireBot: how our robotic assistant fosters productivity and team-building
Written by Guillermo Esteves, Front-end Engineer, The Verge If you’ve been following this blog for a while, then you’ve already been acquainted with many of our Product Team members in previous posts, but today, we’d like to introduce one of our...