Designing a service worker
Since I decided to do an app shell architecture for the project we'll have to split the way we cache content with service worker. We'll use both sw-precache to cache the app shell and sw-toolbox to...
Reading for everyone
Third in a series. Other two parts are What kind of web do we want? and Who are the next billion users and how do we accommodate them How we build content that will be read wherever and whenever we...
Who are the next billion users and how do we accommodate them
Where are the next billion users for our applications come from? When answering this question we have to be careful. The answer itself is easy, the implications of the answer, not so much. I'll...
What kind of web do we want?
The web, technology wise, is in a great place. We’ve grown closer to parity with native apps, that’s the gist of progressive web applications, we can have pretty close to the same experience form web...
Progressive and Subcompact Books: Technical notes
Progressive and Subcompact Books: Technical notes # This is meant as living document. Feedback is appreciated and will be incorporated when appropriate. The idea is to use this and its sister...
Progressive and Subcompact Books: Philosophy
This is meant as living document. Feedback is appreciated and will be incorporated when appropriate. The idea is to use this and its sister technical document as the basis for a proof of concept...
W3C + IDPF = a different experience
I’ve been reading the different positions in the debate started when the International Digital Publishing Forum and the W3C started talking about merging. I’ve also purposefully stayed quiet as I...
ES6, Babel and You: Modules, the what and the how
Thanks to Ada Rose Edwards for pointing me to rollup.js and providing examples of how to configure it. I’ve always struggled to understand the differences between modules and classes and I’m still...
Case Study: Building Polymer Applications, Part 3
project-list # The project-list element is the meat of the application and uses some interesting techniques I've learned from working on creating Polymer elements. This is an example of the JSON model...
Case Study: Building Polymer Applications, Part 2
project-menu # project-menu is a presentational element that only contains icons, links and linkable icon elements. It’s a good example of how we can compose custom elements with regular HTML...