Elsewhere

Things we find interesting we think you might too. Grab the RSS feed for your newsreader of choice.

Interaction 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 More

Encryption 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 More

The 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 More

Goodnotes everywhere (bringing an iPad app to the Web with WASM)

February 12, 2024

Source: Goodnotes everywhere  |  web.dev...

Read More

We 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 More

Why 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 More

Don’t Disable Form Controls — Adrian Roselli

February 12, 2024

Source: Don’t Disable Form Controls — Adrian Roselli...

Read More

On 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 More

Design 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 More

Going 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 More

SpeedCurve | 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 More

Basic 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 More

The 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 More

drab

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 More

Igalia 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...

Read More

X marks the spot: Landmark elements

February 5, 2024

Imagine you had to describe the way through a building to someone without being able to point out certain things that the person could use for orientation: “First you go through the thing to get...

Read More

SpeedCurve | The psychology of site speed and human happiness

February 2, 2024

In the fourteen years that I’ve been working in the web performance industry, I’ve done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why ...

Read More

The Good, The Bad, The Web Components—zachleat.com

February 2, 2024

WEB COMPONENTS ARE ALREADY A SUCCESS STORY Despite some notable criticism, web components are already widely used across the web.In August 2023, Chrome Platform Status reports that 19.4% of page loads...

Read More

It feels like React is getting a bit of a kicking recently – Piccalilli

February 1, 2024

I talk about an apparent attitude shift in attitude towards React in the community and also make some recommendations about decision-making for your projects. Source: It feels like React is getting a ...

Read More

How we reduced CSS size and improved performance across GOV.UK – Government Digital Service

February 1, 2024

We recently reduced CSS size and improved performance across GOV.UK pages by moving away from bundling all CSS into a single stylesheet served to all pages to serving smaller stylesheets containing o...

Read More

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 – Infrequently Noted

February 1, 2024

The global device and network situation continues to evolve, and this series is an effort to provide an an up-to-date understanding for working web developers. So what’s changed since last year?...

Read More

How Core Web Vitals affect application SEO: Understanding Google page experience ranking and Lighthouse scores – Vercel

January 31, 2024

Core Web Vitals influence how your application’s pages rank on Google. Here, we’ll dive into what they are, how they’re measured, and how your users and search ranking are impacted by th...

Read More

Field-sizing just works! | Polypane

January 31, 2024

field-sizing is wild. It’s a new CSS property that makes input and textarea automatically scale to the size of their content. Source: Field-sizing just works! | Polypane...

Read More