Some interesting experiments in web typography here.
Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Jay Hoffmann and Jeremy Keith about Shadow DOM’s backstory and long origins
I enjoyed this chat, and it wasn’t just about Shadow DOM; it was about the history of chasing the dream of encapsulation on the web.
There’s really good browser support for display-mode media queries and this article does a really good job of running through some of the use cases for your progressive web app.
I like the idea of adding this to personal websites:
Mastodon shows an “Alt” button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image.
- Building HTML pages is easy
- Pure HTML is evergreen
- Bloated web pages are too slow
- I can host it anywhere, often for free
- Accessibility and SEO benefits are automatic
- It won’t need security patches
- There are no build steps
Why single-page apps are just not worth it:
Here’s the problem: your team almost certainly doesn’t have what it takes to out-engineer the browser. The browser will continuously improve the experience of plain HTML, at no cost to you, using a rendering engine that is orders of magnitude more efficient than JavaScript.
Meanwhile, the browser marches on, improving the UX of every website that uses basic HTML semantics. For instance: browsers often don’t repaint full pages anymore.
Here’s an HTML web component you can use if you’re participating in the origin trial for the Web Install API.
The sixth speaker is revealed—only two more to go!
In which I find a tagline for Web Day Out and a tagline for React.
This line-up just gets better and better! You’ll want to be in Brighton on March 12th, 2026.
Some buggy behaviour has been fixed in iOS 18 but now there’s a new bit of weirdness.