Plus Equals #3, September 2021
Want to take a deep dive into tiling images? Like, a really deep dive. Rob has you covered.
Link tags: backgrounds
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Basic Pattern Repository
A nice little collection of very simple—and very lightweight—SVGs to use as background patterns.
Remove Background from Image – remove.bg
Well, this looks like it could come in handy—no more tedious time in Photoshop trying to select turn a person into a separate layer by hand; this does it for you.
Lisbon Azulejos
When I was in Porto a few weeks back, I took lots of pictures of the beautiful tiles. They reminded me of the ubiquitous repeating background images that were so popular on the early web. I was thinking about abstracting them into a collection of reusable patterns but now it looks like I’ve been beaten to it!
Enhancing a comment form: From basic to custom error message to BackgroundSync | justmarkup
This is a truly fantastic example of progressive enhancement applied to a form.
What I love about this is that it shows how progressive enhancement isn’t a binary on/off choice: there are layers and layers of enhancements here, from simple inline validation all the way to service workers and background sync, with many options in between.
Superb!
ServiceWorker: A Basic Guide to BackgroundSync
A nice introduction to using Service Workers to enable syncing in the background: when the user is offline, tasks get queued up and then when the user is back online, those tasks execute.
Multiple Backgrounds and Borders with CSS 2.1 – Nicolas Gallagher — Blog & Ephemera
A clever technique to create the effect of multiple background images using the :before and :after pseudo-elements.
Meme Scenery - Waxy.org
There's something haunting about this: the physical settings of internet memes with the protagonists removed.