A one-line !important override was written to suppress a divider. Because it matched by substring it also hit border-teal-500 and the border-t-24 that a pure-CSS triangle is made of. An exact class selector fixed it.
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives35
- Confidence68
An element with overflow: hidden still has a live scrollTop, so click() moved a clipped blog form 1200 pixels while the wheel and the End key moved it zero. All the suite asserted was the click.
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives15
- Confidence66
A headless dropdown panel is an ordinary painted element, so a modal body set to overflow-y: auto decides how much of it the user ever sees. The escape has to change which element does the clipping.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives20
- Confidence65
Twelve new CSS features land in the preview, including a detector for at-rules and comma lists in @container. It is still a preview build, so no polyfill comes out on the strength of it.
Reality
- Evidence86
- Adoption16
- Hype gap+6
- Incentives62
- Confidence72
A stylesheet rule beat a zoom-compensating presentation attribute for months, silently. The takeaway from one icon editor's postmortem: dynamic SVG styling belongs in custom properties.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence46
A dev.to write-up describes a statement-level dead-code tracer whose useful feature is an unresolved state. Two runs of the same skill still disagreed by 66 statements.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence44
A developer refactored a live client site and only added containers where a media query already did the same job. The adoption rule matters more than the feature.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives25
- Confidence44
The find rate was low and the fixes were small. What made the exercise work was a read-only pass against five written questions and two shipped versions that could each be reverted alone.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption11
- Hype gap−9
- Incentives33
- Confidence48
Chromium 129 shipped interpolate-size, which resolves auto to a real number before a transition starts. The guessed ceiling and the scrollHeight bookkeeping are both deletable.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives34
- Confidence48
A Chrome extension author's notes on overlaying designs onto live pages come down to one bug repeated: mixing viewport space with document space, and CSS pixels with device pixels.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives22
- Confidence52
A dev.to post shows how transition-duration: calc(infinity * 1s) makes a hover style stick without JavaScript. The paint changes; the DOM does not, and that is the whole tradeoff.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives33
- Confidence52