A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
No more hacking around with the inadequate JSON.parse() or bouncing data to a Web Worker in order to deep clone an object, as there’s now structuredClone() For the longest time, you had to resort to workarounds and libraries to create a deep copy of a JavaScript value. The Platform now ships with structuredClone(), a built-in …
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:has() selector is way more than a “Parent Selector”
Safari TP 137 just dropped with unflagged support for :has(). Often dubbed “the parent selector”, :has() is way more than that …
An issue with linear gradients in CSS is that they often have hard edges where they start and/or end or transition from one color to the other. In 2017, Andreas Larsen wrote about them on CSS-Tricks, eventually leading him to create a nice editor to generate them. Sparked by that post, a CSSWG Issue to …
Embrace the Platform — My submission for CSS-Tricks’s End of Year series, answering “What is the one thing people can do to make their website better?”
This is wild: while writing his own parallel-decodable PNG implementation, David Buchanan discovered he had a bug in his code. Soon after, he found out Apple has the same bug in their implementation which ships with macOS and iOS. As a result, it’s possible to craft a PNG in such a way that Apple’s decoder …
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Rik Schennink: If we show a modal on iOS we need to prevent events inside the modal from interacting with the page behind the modal. On a previous episode of “Fun with Safari” we could use preventDefault() on the touchmove event but on iOS 15 that no longer works. Here we go. The solution lies …
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Can’t follow there with Jamstack’s SSG, ISR, DPR, DSG abbreviations? And what about Edge Rendering? Brian Rinaldi has a nice post explaining them all, and guiding you when to choose which. static rendering – Use this as your default. deferred rendering – Use this when you have to render a lot of pages. server-side rendering …
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Last week React Conf 2021 took place, focussing on the upcoming React 18 release. I especially liked these talks, all before the 2:00:00 mark: 15:00 — React 18 Keynote 48:55 — React 18 for app developers (useDeferredValue 🔥) 1:08:03 — Streaming Server Rendering with Suspense 1:26:40 — React Developer Tooling 1:54:12 — React without memo …
12 Days of Web is Stephanie Eckles‘s “advent” calendar. A year-end celebration of fundamental web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Three days in, and she has already covered Intersection Observer, <details> + <summary>, and CSS Custom Properties. Good stuff. 12 Days of Web → Related: Find more web advent calendars here.