A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Very cool project by Jo Francetti in which she created a live captioning service. She uses a webpage on a phone to capture her speech — using getUserMedia() — which she then sends over to Azure Cognitive Services’ “Speech to Text” Service to get back the text. The text eventually ends up on the flexible …
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Few tips by Jake Archibald — as presented at #ChromeDevSummit — on how you can use some of the new and upcoming web features to improve the performance of your page. Covered are the aforementioned content-visibility, Font metric override descriptors, the Back/Forward Cache, Portals, and Preloading
One of the side-effects when drawing things with a Houdini Paint Worklet and relying on Math.random() in your code, is that your layout might be jumpy. Check out my CSS Houdini Paint Worklet that draws colorful circles for example: whenever you resize the available space or change one of its properties — or some of …
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css-houdini-circles — A Houdini Paint Worklet that draws Colorful Background Circles
Last night — inspired by the Paint Worklet demos on Houdini.how — I decided to give Houdini a spin myself and created my own Paint Worklet. The result is css-houdini-circles which draws a bunch of random circles on the background. As a user you can configure the number of circles, the size range, the opacity …
In this video from #ChromeDevSummit 2020, Una walks us through Houdini and the aforementioned houdini.how CSS Houdini is an umbrella term that describes a series of low-level browser APIs and worklets which enable developers to hook into the browser’s rendering engine and extend the styling capabilities of today. Learn about the various Houdini API’s, as …
During #ChromDevSummit, Houdini.how got announced: Houdini.how is a library and reference for Houdini worklets and resources. It provides everything you need to know about CSS Houdini: browser support, an overview of its various APIs, usage information, additional resources, and live paint worklet samples. Each sample on Houdini.how is backed by the CSS Paint API, meaning …
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Will Boyd: CSS custom properties can hold all sorts of things. Some of these things were not obvious to me, which is why I decided to write this. In short: they can contain just about everything. It’s only until CSS Custom Properties are used in a certain context as a CSS Variable — using var() …
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When mentioning CSS Custom Properties here on bram.us I do tend to name them like that — and not CSS Variables — as that’s their official name. I always thought the terms could be used interchangeably — with CSS Variables simply being the unofficial name — but as detailed by Šime Vidas on Web Platform …
squoosh-cli
To compress and compare images with different codecs right in your browser there’s squoosh.app that you can use. Announced at the still ongoing Chrome Dev Summit 2020 is Squoosh v2 with new codecs support (AVIF!), an updated design, and the release of CLI version! Squoosh CLI is an experimental way to run all the codecs …
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