Baseline Web Components
Baseline is an interesting initiative The Web Platform Developer Experience group created the baseline-status web component to display data regarding the baseline status of a given feature. This could...
Research for the blog - Color.js Web Components
Warning: These components are under development and they may change without notice. If the current version of the components meets your needs you may want to pin to the specific version you're...
Default Parameters and Sibling Parameters
We can use special types of parameters to protect ourselves when writing code. This post will cover two defensive coding strategies: default parameters and what I call sibling parameters. Using...
Using Module Exports to Organize Your Code
Most of the time I work with ES Modules as a consumer, only using the import side of the equation. However there is another side to modules when working in creating reusable code libraries. This post...
Configurable Reading Options
In Using Sliders in Javascript we saw how we can use sliders to control aspects of a user interface. This post will expand on the content from the previous post and build a full configuration panel...
Using Sliders in Javascript
When doing interactive demos or building preferences panels we may need to create sliders to set values for the associated properties. This post will cover how to configure an HTML slider and how to...
The future of Firefox
A while back I came across Firefox on the brink?. In the article, the author wonders if we're seeing the final decline of Firefox. According to the article, the US Web Design System provides a set of...
Creating Gradient-Colored Text
In addition to black and white or single, solid-color text, we can also use gradients to color the text. The process is slightly more complicated than just assigning color to the desired element. We...
Publishing NPM modules
Publishing NPM modules has become progessively more complex over time (go figure). We now have to contend with ESM versus Common JS, Typescript versus Javascript, setting a default module type, and...
Alt text in CSS background images
One of the biggest issues I have when using CSS background images, is that we can't add alt text to images used as background image sets. a new feature has become newly available in Baseline that...