Recreating the button. Fascinating article from Doug Bowman on the work that went in to creating custom CSS buttons for use across Google’s different applications, avoiding images to improve performance ensure they could be easily styled using just CSS. I’d love to see the Google Code team turn this in to a full open source release—the more sites using these buttons the more familiar they will become to users at large.
Recent articles
- Hacking the WiFi-enabled color screen GitHub Universe conference badge - 28th October 2025
- Video: Building a tool to copy-paste share terminal sessions using Claude Code for web - 23rd October 2025
- Dane Stuckey (OpenAI CISO) on prompt injection risks for ChatGPT Atlas - 22nd October 2025