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Can generative AI help write accessible code? – TetraLogical
February 19, 2024
Léonie Watson asked three free Generative AI tools some typical questions about accessible code. The tools were Bard (now Gemini) from Google and ChatGPT 3.5 from OpenAI, as representatives of tools ...
Read MorePaying people to work on open source is good actually – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
February 19, 2024
My fundamental position is that paying people to work on open source is good, full stop, no exceptions. We need to stop criticizing maintainers getting paid, and start celebrating. Yes, all of the mec...
Read MoreUnion, intersection, difference, and more are coming to JavaScript Sets | Sonar
February 19, 2024
The JavaScript Set was introduced to the language in the ES2015 spec, but it has always seemed incomplete. That’s about to change.Sets are collections of values where each value may only appear ...
Read MoreThe Case for Design Engineers – Jim Nielsen’s Blog
February 15, 2024
If I had to put myself into one of the buckets that constitute job titles, “Design Engineer” might be closest to my own sense of self-identification. That or just plain old “Web Designer”—th...
Read MoreCreating effective technical documentation | MDN Blog
February 14, 2024
Effective feature documentation is important in enhancing a user’s experience with the feature. Good documentation is like a piece of the puzzle that makes everything click — the key for encou...
Read MoreGetting into web components – an intro | utilitybend
February 14, 2024
For those who are utterly clueless about web components – no need to feel ashamed; I’m catching up myself. In this article, I want to delve into the theory and some basic terminology that was ...
Read MoreThe original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it?
February 14, 2024
The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it? The W3C has a page with the original WWW proposal from Tim Berners-Lee. One of the downloads says The origina...
Read MoreHow To Center a Div
February 14, 2024
For a long time, centering an element within its parent was a surprisingly tricky thing to do. As CSS has evolved, we’ve been granted more and more tools we can use to solve this problem. These ...
Read MoreInteraction to Next Paint becomes a Core Web Vital on March 12 | Blog | web.dev
February 13, 2024
Interaction to Next Paint will officially become a Core Web Vital and will replace First Input Delay on March 12. Source: Interaction to Next Paint becomes a Core Web Vital on March 12 | Blog |...
Read MoreEncryption Lava Lamps – San Francisco, California – Atlas Obscura
February 13, 2024
WHAT’S ENCRYPTING YOUR WEB TRAFFIC as you surf the internet? An advanced algorithm created by a supercomputer? Actually, if the site you’re visiting is encrypted by the cybersecurity firm Cloudfla...
Read MoreThe internet used to be fun
February 13, 2024
I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, better piece that someone else has alread...
Read MoreGoodnotes everywhere (bringing an iPad app to the Web with WASM)
February 12, 2024
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Read MoreWe need to talk about digital ownership
February 12, 2024
We need to talk about digital ownership.You might have been told you should seek to “own your own data”. That the future of the web itself is the prophesied “ownership era”, wh...
Read MoreWhy Your Cached JavaScript Is Still Slow and Incurs Performance Overhead
February 12, 2024
Joe Liccini discusses the overhead associated with loading JavaScript, even if it’s loaded from Browser Cache. Caching assets is a fantastic way to optimize the network overhead of your web appl...
Read MoreDon’t Disable Form Controls — Adrian Roselli
February 12, 2024
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Read MoreOn Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed — MatthewBall.co
February 9, 2024
As computer networking, graphical user interfaces, and games entered the mainstream in the 1980s and early 1990s, there was a rash of terms and ideas put forward to describe what we were doing, would ...
Read MoreDesign Patterns Catalogue
February 8, 2024
The Design patterns catalogue is curated by IF to help teams design trustworthy services that work for people. Think of it as the opposite of deceptive patterns....
Read MoreGoing beyond pixels and (r)ems in CSS – Relative length units based on font – iO tech_hub
February 7, 2024
There are a lot of CSS units available at the moment and we mostly still rely on pixels and (r)ems for our sizing and fonts. I say it’s time to do a little freshening up. Instead of writing a list o...
Read MoreSpeedCurve | Mobile INP performance: The elephant in the room
February 7, 2024
However, after several months of discussing the impending change and getting a better look at INP issues in the wild, it’s hard to ignore the fact that mobile stands out as the biggest INP offen...
Read More“AI Inside” | Adam Stoddard
February 6, 2024
Tech companies are scrambling to stake their claims in the AI gold rush, and — on top of the legal and ethical woes they’re leaving in their wake — a lot of them are shipping surprisingly bad pr...
Read MoreBasic Dialog Usage and Gotchas To Watch For – Frontend Masters Boost
February 6, 2024
The element in HTML is tremendous. We’ve got support across the board now, so using it is a smart plan. Just with basic usage, you get a centered modal dialog experience that comes up when you call ...
Read MoreThe web just gets better with Interop 2024 | WebKit
February 6, 2024
The Interop project aims to improve interoperability by encouraging browser engine teams to look deeper into specific focus areas. Now, for a third year, Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and ...
Read Moredrab
February 6, 2024
drab focuses on providing JavaScript functionality where it’s most useful. Many of the elements are helpful wrappers around browser APIs. Here are some of the features of the library. Source: drab...
Read MoreIgalia Chats: A Lighter Shade of DOM | Igalia – Open Source Consultancy and Development
February 6, 2024
Igalia’s Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Miriam Suzanne about the Shadow DOM, use cases, and ‘open styling’ problems Source: Igalia Chats: A Lighter Shade of DOM | Igalia R...
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