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Temani Afif

I was expecting some new properties but I see properties that have at least 5 years old so please avoid the "awesome" and "you didn't know". It's only clickbait ..

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juz14girl

It's not clickbait for me as he puts the words "for beginners" and that alone is enough to understand that it is not for experienced one but rather for a people like me who's really new in this. Those that he mentioned above are really cool/awesome because it is for BEGINNERS and it isn't for people who's been in the industry for five years as you have stated.

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Temani Afif

the title and the article was edited after my comments so your comment is irrelevant now since you don't know the original title and content I commented for (the word beginners didn't exist)

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juz14girl

I see, I get your point now. Thank you for clarifications.

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Tapajyoti Bose

These properties aren't used often, hence the name. I mentioned at the beginning as well

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Pierre Vahlberg

A bit pessimistic, but your point is sort of valid. Even though these features are not brand new, a few searches on caniuse lets you know that a lot of cool css features are not very well supported. If something gains traction after 4 years however, i would approve it as "something new" since its recently been made usable.

Clip-path here is one such, not 100% supported but well adopted nowadays.

Also, an addition to the article. Css variables can be adjusted with javascript, which allows you yo create really cool color pickers that can generate conplementary colors or re-theme a UI based on a multi color selection that is applied from js :)

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Temani Afif

not pessimistic but I hate clickbait title. We can simply say "5 CSS properties for beginner" or "5 CSS properties to start you CSS journey", etc ... the "Awesome" "that you don't know" lead us to think that we will discover something innovative while it's not.
Clip-path exist since 2013 and is widely supported in major browsers since a lot of years.


Let's suppose all those properties are new and innovative, I don't see any detailed explanation on how to use them. I simply see the basic definition and 50% of the article is self-promotion and affiliate links.

Check the clip-path part, the "simple example" is leading to his personal website (a way to track more visitor) and he ended with a complex example taken from the Net. I doubt it's useful for beginner to get such example to better understand how to use clip-path

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Tapajyoti Bose • Edited

I appreciate that you invested so much time in helping me improve the blog. Thankyou! :)