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Igalia Chats: Polyfills, Trust and Progress
July 16, 2024
Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat about the history and evolution of polyfills and somehow related efforts in the wake of recent events surrounding the transfer of ownership of the polyfill.io domain ...
Read MoreIsland Architecture with Web Components
July 16, 2024
Island Architecture is a concept first described by Katie Sylor-Miller and later expanded upon by Jason Miller in his post. Island Architecture, as described by Jason, involves server-rendering HTML a...
Read More15 page speed optimizations that sites ignore (at their own risk)
July 16, 2024
A recent analysis of twenty leading websites found a surprising number of page speed optimizations that sites are not taking advantage of – to the detriment of their performance metrics, and more im...
Read MoreZoom, zoom, and zoom
July 12, 2024
In brief: there is wide support for three different types of ‘zoom’ – available both to site visitors and (to some extent) CSS authors: Page zoom is the default with a handy keyboard shortcut, a...
Read MoreWebNN Developer Preview
July 12, 2024
Run ONNX models in the browser with WebNN. The developer preview unlocks interactive ML on the web that benefits from reduced latency, enhanced privacy and security, and GPU acceleration from DirectML...
Read MoreDebugging Checklist – Ryan Bigg
July 10, 2024
In a work discussion yesterday we talked about debugging checklists and I wrote up one with what I could think of. I’m sharing it here as it might be useful to others. Maybe there’ll be more signs...
Read MoreA language model in your browser, accessible as a Web API?
July 10, 2024
AI, these days, is all about cloud services. You chat with a bot, you ask a voice assistant for something, etc. All of which happens to be powered by some AI model that’s running on a server som...
Read MoreExplainer for the Prompt API
July 10, 2024
This proposal is an early design sketch by the Chrome built-in AI team to describe the problem below and solicit feedback on the proposed solution. It has not been approved to ship in Chrome. Source: ...
Read MoreThe Silent Crisis in Open Source: When Maintainers Walk Away
July 10, 2024
In May 2022, Dane Springmeyer, the primary maintainer of node-pre-gyp, a critical tool in the Node.js ecosystem, announced his decision to step down. This wasn’t just another developer moving on...
Read MoreHuman Who Codes Newsletter – Node.js, Deno, and Bun
July 9, 2024
For well over a decade, if you wanted to run JavaScript on the server, your only choice was Node.js. It has been battle-hardened by some of the most demanding companies in the world, many of whom paid...
Read MoreWhat the internet looked like in 1994, according to 15 webpages born that year – Fast Company
July 9, 2024
What was the World Wide Web like at the start? Long before it became the place we think and work and talk, the air that we (and the bots) now breathe no matter how polluted it’s become? So much of t...
Read MoreScript Integrity – Frontend Masters Boost
July 9, 2024
There is a web platform feature that can help against a third party changing the code they are providing. It’s the integrity attribute on or elements (which are rel=”stylesheet”, rel=&#...
Read MoreThe Frontend Treadmill – These Yaks Ain’t Gonna Shave Themselves
July 9, 2024
Companies that want to reduce the cost of their frontend tech becoming obsoleted so often should be looking to get back to fundamentals. Your teams should be working closer to the web platform with a ...
Read MoreThe Internet is a Series of Webs
July 8, 2024
The future of the internet seems up in the air. Consumed by rotting behemoths. What we have now is failing, but it is also part of our every-day life, our politics, our society, our communities and ou...
Read MoreHow People with Disabilities Use the Web
July 5, 2024
How do people who cannot move their arms use your website? What about people who cannot see well or at all? Or people who have difficulty hearing, or understanding, or have other disabilities? This re...
Read MoreHow to use container queries now
July 5, 2024
Recently, Chris Coyier wrote a blog post posing the question: “Now that container queries are supported in all browser engines, why aren’t more developers using them?” Chris’s ...
Read MoreBlazing Fast Websites with Speculation Rules
July 5, 2024
This post introduces speculation rules, a new web platform feature that allows developers to deliver instant page navigations after the initial page load.By the end of this post, you will: Understand ...
Read MoreIt’s about time I tried to explain what progressive enhancement actually is – Piccalilli
July 5, 2024
I’m a long-time proponent of progressive enhancement to the point where readers are almost certainly bored, but I am like I am because it’s important. I’ve been saying the following for years: W...
Read MoreWeb Performance Guide | SpeedCurve
July 5, 2024
New to the world of web performance? Welcome! Here’s everything you need to know to master website monitoring, analytics, and diagnostics. Learn how to deliver a fast, joyous experience to all ...
Read MoreTurning the Tables on AI
July 5, 2024
Now, with a tool that might help us think… How about using AI not to think less but more? But I don’t know where to start. But I really like that ChatGPT sentence there. But I can’t say it bette...
Read MoreAnnouncing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
July 4, 2024
Ladybird uses a brand new engine based on web standards, without borrowing any code from other browsers. It started as a humble HTML viewer for the SerenityOS hobby project, but since then it’s ...
Read MoreNew JavaScript Set methods | MDN Blog
July 4, 2024
New JavaScript Set methods are arriving! Since Firefox 127, these methods are available in most major browser engines, which means you won’t need a polyfill to make them work everywhere. This ar...
Read MoreBe Careful Using ‘Grid’
July 4, 2024
TL;DR: Be careful when using the word grid on its own. Be certain you have chosen the term that accurately describes the pattern you want. Source: Be Careful Using ‘Grid’...
Read MoreAbout Omatsuri
July 3, 2024
Omatsuri translates to «festival» from Japanese (お祭り) and here we have a small festival of applications. It was built with strong respect to your privacy – you will never see ads and it does...
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