A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Jon Henshaw, writing for Coywolf: WebKit added support for the AVIF image format in April 2021, but it’s still unavailable in Safari. Its absence is because Apple chose an unconventional method for decoding images in its browser. Long story short: Safari does not decode images using WebKit — its underlying rendering engine — but delegates …
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Coming late October; Pretty excited about it as it’s directed by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Blade Runner 2049, Arrival, …) and features Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name, Beautiful Boy, …). Although subtle at times, the Teal and Orange is very present in this one …
Perry Sun: Safari is very good web browser, delivering fast performance and solid privacy features. But at the same time, the lack of support for key web technologies and APIs has been both perplexing and annoying at the same time. The enormous popularity of iOS makes it all the more annoying that Apple continues to …
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useUnmountSignal() — A React Hook to cancel promises when a component is unmounted
A React Hook that wraps around the almighty AbortController. It will automatically call abort() on the created AbortSignal instance when the component unmounts. import useUnmountSignal from 'use-unmount-signal'; function Example() { const unmountSignal = useUnmountSignal(); return ( <button onClick={() => fetch('https://ping.example.com', { signal: unmountSignal }) }> Ping </button> ); } Installation per NPM: npm i use-unmount-signal …
size-adjust @font-face descriptor
You know something good’s landed when two out of the three great Web/CSS resources — here Smashing Magazine and web.dev (*) — write about the same topic: the size-adjust descriptor for @font-face. To improve font rendering, a great technique is font swapping. The problem however, is that sometimes when the web font loads, it shifts …
In the post on TablesNG, we looked at some of the features this under-the-hood rewrite for tables in Chromium provides us. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg, as the Chromium team have also been working on a whole new rendering engine architecture, named RenderingNG. In 2021, we will largely complete the process of …
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I don’t know exactly how she does it, but apart from all the work on her side projects, newsletter, family, etc. Stephanie Eckles also hosts a show named “Dev Roulette Live” Dev Roulette is a conversation between Stephanie Eckles and up to two mystery guests about topics that are particularly important to front-end developers including: …
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Kilian Valkhof recently needed to check if prefers-reduced-data was supported by the browser or not For this, I couldn’t use just @media (prefers-reduced-data: no-preference) because that would be false if either there was no support (since the browser wouldn’t understand the media query) or if it was supported but the user wanted to preserve data. …
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