Custom Elements revisited (once more)
This post will look at technologies allow us to create fully encapsulated and accessible web content. Custom Elements allows developers to create specialized elements for the web Shadow DOM gives us...
Better Links for Print
When we print web pages we see links as underlined text either black or, if we printed in a color printer, blue or whatever color we made our links. That doesn't help us know what the actual links...
Generating screenshots
I'm documenting behaviors that I take for granted and then forget just when I need them. The question is How do I generate screenshots of what I'm working on? The answer is It depends How to generate...
Measuring your site's performance with Lighthouse
As developers, we are fixated with performance and rightly so. But we also tend to put web performance in a vacuum and not worry how our site's performance got to where it is today. In this post,...
Trying to understand DRM on the web...
We've had DRM in browsers for a while now in the shape of EME and its associated technologies but we haven't asked ourselves what does it do or if it works or not. To help frame the issue I've taken a...
Combining Houdini APIs
I've written about Houdini before and how awesome it is. The articles I've written are: CSS Houdini: Present and Future of CSS CSS Houdini: Properties & Values CSS Houdini: CSS Typed Object...
Additional updates for my Gulp build scripts
I finally decided to update my build to work with Gulp 4.x instead of 3. I'm familiar with gulp.series and gulp.parallel changes that are necessary for the build file to work in the new format. What I...
Compiling Chromium From Source
Note: This post discusses the compilation process in a Macintosh. Instructions for other operating systems can be found at Get the code A few months ago Quora started posting questions about the...
Further thoughts on performance
In the time I've been researching performance I've become even more convinced that it's not just an issue with Javascript, CSS, images, HTML or what framework you're using, although any one of those...
A new baseline for front-end development
In 2012 Rebeca Murphey wrote A baseline for front-end developers as a minimum of what people should know to work in front-end development back in the day. I went back to the article and was surprised...