From their humble beginnings, the specifications that make up web components have become more complex and flexible at the same time. This post will cover the APIs and specifications that make web...

The attr allows developers to pull data from HTML attributes into CSS. The idea is that, like data attributes and custom properties, you can use these bits of custom data to provide limited ways to...

When we work with content for the web, we usually don't worry about the reading flow of a document, based on writing mode and writing direction. In Latin languages, we're used to right to left, to...

In the last post we discussed encoding video using the FFmpeg command line tool as a way to compress video and test the results. We used h.264 (AVC), h.265 (HEVC), VP9 and AV1. This post will explore...

One of my current projects is to create a journaling system similar to Hi did. The idea is described in Full stack writing (and publishing): Welcome to Hi. The Idea # The idea of this application is...

Ever since we've had responsive images we've been able to add media queries to control the conditions that will trigger a match for a specific child element. But we haven't been able to do the same...

The picture element was added to the HTML specification as part of the responsive images effort. This post will dive into the picture, source and img elements along with the srcset property and...