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Nov 24 2020

Responsive Snakes! And what they can teach you about CSS 🐍

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Responsive Snakes! And what they can teach you about CSS 🐍
Let's talk about four responsive snake implementations, see how they were made and what they can teach us.
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"It will reference previous work, but mostly I am just going to show you the bare minimum you need to make a WCAG-compliant responsive HTML table."
Let's build a tiny browser-based office suite - a text editor, a spreadsheet, a drawing app, and a presentation maker - all in four lines of code.
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