Just two short long years ago, I wrote an article here called Document Collaboration (with Comments!). As a long-time blogger who helps others with their articles too, I’ve played with lots of tools to help with this flow. I put some options in that post, but none are perfect. The big names come with baggage […]

When you make a Web Component for a form element, you've got a bit of extra work to do to make sure they participate on the form in expected ways.

The new .setHTML() method in JavaScript, part of the Sanitizer API, can be a one-to-one replacement for .innerHTML(), making sites more secure from XSS attacks. I think that’s pitch-perfect feature branding from Mozilla on this: Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148. Listen to Frederik Braun go deep into this on ShopTalk […]

It's a strange situation where some CSS is disallowed, some is allowed but breaks the button, and some is capped.

As it stands, you have to think about the layout engine and whether an element is "fully laid out" before an anchor is allowed to apply to it. Boooooo.

A Brief History of JavaScript from the Deno team, celebrating JavaScript being 30 now. Interesting that the first web request tech was Internet Explorer 5 in 1999, then it took 5 years to get Gmail in 2004, then we started calling it AJAX in 2005, and by 2006, we got jQuery’s $.ajax which made it […]

A framework-agnostic component library, designed to be styled. It can be done.

We can take a value set in an HTML attribute and use it in CSS, even extracting each individual digit in order to animate separately.

Loren Stewart built the same (kanban) app 10 times and wrote about it, trying to figure out which JavaScript framework is best for his team. The focus is on mobile web performance. The implementations were reviewed by others. Here’s my own summary of his summary:

A list of items with thumbnails that flip into place as needed. Can we ditch the JavaScript?