Revisiting Webpack
I've done some prior work with Webpack and, while I still have my reservations, it's worth taking a look at it again from a different perspective. As I was working on my research on how to automate UI...
Machine Learning Image Enhancement
The following tweets, products of an earlier request for comments on an essay about ebooks, started an interesting line of thinking. Re: image quality, as a book publisher whose backlist is...
Puppeteer: Automating Tasks With Headless Chrome
Puppeteer is a project from Chrome's Devtools team to provide a high-level way to automate running Chrome in Headless mode (Chrome running without a graphical user interface. Headless browsers provide...
Globalize Content: Caching localization assets with service workers
Since we've already used Webpack to build our localization assets it's easy to use Workbox.js to precache assets using a service worker. const webpack = require( "webpack" ); const CommonsChunkPlugin...
Globalize Web Content: Globalize and Webpack
### Adding Webpack to the mix The second example is more complex and uses Globalize, the CLDR data files, IANA timezone data and Webpack-specific tools, including a custom...
Globalizing web content: Globalize.js
GLobalize is the heavy gun in the i18n world. It'll automate most of the i18n work and integrate ICU and CLDR into one application. npm install --save globalize or build from the Github development...
Globalize Web Content: Basic Strategies
Quick and Dirty: JS Template String Literals # This is a quick recap of an earlier post that described Javascript Template String Literals and one way to use them to provide content...
Globalizing Web Content
I've always been interested in internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) and how they relate to the web. My interest got picked again when I started wondering how much extra work would it be...
JS Template Literals
If you've worked with Javascript for a while you've probably hit the nightmare of string concatenation and how error prone the process is and how hard it is to troubleshoot if you're not careful. var...
More on Font Subsetting
Idea from Bram Stein's Webfont Handbook I've discussed font subsetting regarding ebooks. This post will review how do we load multiple fonts and how we subset fonts. Loading multiple font-faces # This...