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Last updated about 2 months ago
Video with alpha transparency on the web
about 2 months ago
I've been helping some teams at Shopify improve page load performance, and...
Garbage collection and closures
about 2 months ago
Me, Surma, and Jason were hacking on a thing, and discovered that...
HTML attributes vs DOM properties
5 months ago
Attributes and properties are fundamentally different things. You can have an attribute...
View transitions: Handling aspect ratio changes
7 months ago
This post assumes some knowledge of view transitions. If you're looking for...
The case against self-closing tags in HTML
about 1 year ago
Let's talk about /&gt <input type="text" /> <br /> <img src="…" />You'll...
The gotcha of unhandled promise rejections
over 1 year ago
Let's say you wanted to display a bunch of chapters on the...
Getting the correct HTML codecs parameter for an AV1 video
almost 2 years ago
This post is mostly for my own reference, but I couldn't find...
Drawing a star with DOMMatrix
almost 2 years ago
I recently recorded an episode of HTTP 203 on DOMPoint and DOMMatrix...
Avoiding layout shifts: aspect-ratio vs width & height attributes
about 2 years ago
By default, an <img> takes up zero space until the browser loads...
Cross-fading any two DOM elements is currently impossible
almost 3 years ago
Ok, it isn't always impossible. Be amazed as I cross-fade the word...
How to win at CORS
almost 3 years ago
CORS is hard. It's hard because it's part of how browsers fetch...
Writing great alt text: Emotion matters
about 3 years ago
If you prefer videos to articles, there's an episode of HTTP 203...