Prototypal Inheritance and Classes
If you're working with modern evergreen browsers, classes are the preferred way to create reusable code. They work in all modern browsers according to caniuse.com out of the box. Prototypal...
AMP: Hope and Fears (Part 3)
Conclusion # I wrote the tweet below as a response to my original tweet. No, @AMPhtml hasn’t fully sold me on it. Too many open issues in AMP that are easy to do in non-amp. Looking at component...
AMP: Hope and Fears (Part 2)
Technical questions # There are technical questions that came up when researching AMP and writing this post a few more technical questions Converting your content? # In talking to people at the...
AMP: Hope and Fears (Part 1)
This essay has evolved from my notes and comments from the AMP Roadshow in Sunnyvale on April 4 and feedback received since. Any factual errors are mine. Feedback is always welcome. The...
Using video instead of animated gifs
Animated GIFs are a good way to demonstrate short sequences of events or actions in your browser or application. The flipside is that the files tend to be unnecessarily large. One way to reduce the...
Async and Defer Scripts
Loading Javascript may slow down your page as the browser will follow several steps for each script the page links to and not continue until the script is fully parsed and all the associated resources...
Evolving Complexity: Conclusion
Over the years the sheer number of tools that are available has become staggering; at least it was for me. I had to consciously make a choice about what I really wanted to work with and in what areas....
Evolving Complexity: Design
I've always believed that there is no reason not to make our designs look like print. What makes a good print design (and an acceptable web equivalent) has changed over time. What looked good in...
Evolving Complexity
There are many different things that have made me tired as a developer lately. I've seen that we've chosen to specialize in one or more frameworks either because the products you work with are moving...
Technical Training and The Training Manifesto
Sam Dutton, a Developer Advocate at Google, wrote A Manifesto For Teaching Web Development as a way to write down his ideas for explaining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to absolute beginners. As an...