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The platform is quietly absorbing what plugins used to do

Andy Bell builds a checkbox pattern explicitly as a bridge until ::checkmark ships, and Sidebar's numerics piece and Gustavo Fior's Craft both catalogue native CSS (tabular-nums, optical alignment) that used to require JS libraries or hacks. Three separate craft fixes this week are all "just CSS now," which means the workaround libraries in his stack are candidates for deletion, not maintenance.

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Your numbers look wrong CSS font-variant properties align and style them properly

A one-line CSS property fixes a numeric-alignment problem he's likely solved with monospace hacks before.

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Add font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums to one data table in a current project and see if it fixes alignment without touching layout code.

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