Notes on upgrading to Babel 7
After a long time, Babel 7 has been released. If you use Babel at all, it's important to do the following things to make sure you're good to go: Make sure that the project's package.json file points...
TODO with Indexed DB
IndexedDB (currently version 2) provides client-sided database storage for web applications. From the specification: This document defines APIs for a database of records holding simple values and...
CSS Houdini Properties & Values
If you haven't read my prior articles about CSS Houdini, I'll point you to the video below by Tab Atkins where he talks about Houdini as a (far) future combination of CSS and Javascript (he should...
Design for the lower end of the spectrum: Part 3
Ideas for client-side # So how do we address some problems of the web? There are aspects that go beyond PWAs and contribute to the bloat of the web and, I would imagine, the large size of apps. For...
Design for the lower end of the spectrum: Part 2
Framing the issue through social lenses # Bruce Lawson's presentation about the web around the world and it being our responsibility to keep in mind those people who are not in the wealthy western...
Design for the lower end of the spectrum: Part 1
Ever since I've been on the web (1994) I've been a part of a tension between the right and the easy way to do things, between tables and CSS, between frameworks, between techniques, between...
Revisiting Bibliotype Part 3: Future Enhancements
These are things that will take a while to work through either because the APIs are harder to work with or because I'm not certain of the status of the API and research plus implementation will take...
Revisiting Bibliotype Part 2: Manifest and Service Worker
The rest of the project deals with additional "nice to have" items that will make this into a full-fledged PWA. Remaining issues with (S)CSS and Javascript # The function that makes the font...
Revisiting Bibliotype: Version 1
I've been meaning to update Bibliotype to more modern technologies and document the process. The original # In 2011 Craig Mod published Bibliotype, a demo and an article in a List Apart. The article...
Using LocalStorage
The idea behind local storage (also known as web storage) is that we can save key/value pairs of data in the browser for later retrieval and use. A good example of where this may be useful is to set...