CSS
Beyond Market Intelligence keeps CSS in one place: 4 stories so far. The section currently leads with “Design components that adapt to their container, not the screen”, “Transforming Cache Storage with Smarter Compression for Greater Capacity”, and “Explore SMIL animation for SVG without JavaScript and inside img tags”. Container queries have been supported in browsers for years, yet most of us still reach for media queries out of habit. Cloudflare's prototype Cache Transcoding takes a straightforward, promising step: compress uncompressed text like HTML and JSON with Zstandard before it hits disk. Acme AI is the next-generation, AI-powered spreadsheet platform built to replace Excel and redefine how analysts, data scientists, and enterprise teams work… The list below is every CSS story on Beyond Market Intelligence, newest first.
Design components that adapt to their container, not the screen
Container queries have been supported in browsers for years, yet most of us still reach for media queries out of habit. That's a missed opportunity. Container queries let components respond to their parent's width, not the viewport's, which makes them far more natural for reusable UI. Use media queries for page-level layouts, but reserve container queries for the pieces that travel. It's a small mental shift with a big payoff.
Transforming Cache Storage with Smarter Compression for Greater Capacity
Cloudflare's prototype Cache Transcoding takes a straightforward, promising step: compress uncompressed text like HTML and JSON with Zstandard before it hits disk. The potential is real, with petabytes of extra effective capacity on the table, though broader testing remains the next hurdle. It's a pragmatic move that quietly rethinks storage efficiency, and that kind of focus matters. For more on how Cloudflare pushes performance through data innovation, our piece on its Big Pineapple DNS cache redesign offers a useful parallel.
Explore SMIL animation for SVG without JavaScript and inside img tags
Timing Charts offers a clear, practical blueprint for mastering SMIL, the often-overlooked method for animating SVGs directly inside `<video>` tags. It's refreshing to see a guide that proves you can fully animate every element of an SVG without a single line of JavaScript. For anyone tired of complex scripting, this is an accessible path forward. We've touched on simplifying tech workflows elsewhere, like in our piece on vector spaces, so this feels like a natural next step.
Cloudflare moves 9 billion daily CDN requests to its developer platform
Cloudflare has moved cdnjs, its open source CDN for JavaScript and CSS libraries, onto its Developer Platform, and the scale is striking: 9 billion requests a day now run on Workers, R2, KV, Workflows, Queues, Durable Objects, and Containers. That's not just a hosting swap; it's a consolidation of publishing and delivery into one architecture, all while keeping URLs and SRI hashes intact. For teams wrestling with legacy tools, this shows what's possible when infrastructure steps forward. Curious about similar migration thinking?