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...
rolling your own Node CLI tools
Most modern libraries and frameworks have a command line interface that will make it easier to build your own applications using the particular framework. Look at Angular CLI or Polymer CLI for an...
PWA Starter: The PWA Checklist
Text from Google's PWA Checklist used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Google's PWA checklist presents both a basic and an advanced set of requirements for Progressive Web...
PWA Starter: More APIs to make an even better PWA
Before we jump into the PWA checklist we'll talk about APIs we can use in PWAs to enhance performance beyond the basic functionality of PWAs we've discussed so far. Background Sync # The background...
PWA Starter: Automating Service Worker Creation with Workbox.js
SW-precache and SW-toolbox made creating Service Workers with dynamic caching much easier but there were two separate libraries and SW-precache required a separate file with all the SW-toolbox...
PWA Starter: Caching Strategies
Jake Archibald's Offline Cookbook provides additional ideas of when to cache data and different caching strategies. We'll concentrate in the later and talk about caching strategies. Cache only # Use...