New Promise methods
There have been new additions to the promise arsenal that warrants a deeper look so we're ready to use them when they are stable enough to do so. What we started with # promise.all returns a single...
Native Internationalization
Making web content work across locales, each with it's own way to display dates, time is a challenge. Most of the time, when I hear about internationalization or locale aware data manipulation I hear...
Noto Fonts: Same family, multiple languages
One of the limitations of the World Wide Web is the lack of fonts for all the world languages. Even if we were to find fonts for all the languages we want to use it's unlikely that we'll find fonts...
When is an é not an é? Working with Unicode on the web
There are times when working with non-English languages on the web can be a real problem. We'll look at what's the historical background for the issue, how different encodings have tried to solve it,...
Getting into a performance mindset
Web performance is hard. There is no one size fits all solution and the amount of work we do to make our content performant is more than what we may want to do. This post will explore the process of...
A-frame: 3D Markup
a-frame addresses a different problem space in VR and AR: Authoring WebGL is really hard. We will skip the raw WebGL version, don't want to scare readers away by talking about shaders and compiling...
WebXR and <model-viewer>
WebXR is an evolutionary development of the old WebVR APIs that addresses user feedback and additional use cases that were not available when the original WebVR APIs were created. The Immersive Web...
Open Type Features in CSS
I've been playing a little with Open Type font variations (and their CSS equivalents) for a few weeks now and I've revisited a few areas I had played with before and left because, at the time, I...
WebAssembly: A new Swiss Army Knife
WebAssembly and its predecessor asm.js provide a portable target for compilation of high-level languages like C, C++, Go, and Rust among others, enabling deployment on the web for client and server...
Fetch and Axios: When and How
Fetch, the replacement for XmlHTTPRequest object (xhr for short) has been around long enough for me to consider it well baked into the platform and safe to use. As a quick refresher, this script will...