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That HTML Blog #19: Just a Spec, Interop 2024 Focus Areas, & TC39 Proposals

Friday, April 19, 2024 Here in Portland, spring is in full bloom 🌸, and what is also in full bloom is the effort to (see what I did there?) equalize the rollout of awesome new web specs across all browsers. I am of course talking about Interop 2024, and who better to discuss these exciting developments for #WebDev with than my good friend Ayush. That's right my friends, Just a Spec is back! 👏 And in 🎙️ Episode 14 of Just a Spec, we pulled out some of our favorite focus areas from the Interop...

20 days ago • 1 min read

Friday, March 29, 2024 Hello Web friends! I've been a busy beaver this month. We kicked off the version 2 development cycle of Bridgetown, a site generator & fullstack framework I help maintain, and I've been deep in the throes of that effort. In addition, I launched (rebooted in a way) a new general fediverse-friendly tech blog called The Internet Review. It draws from various archives I have stretching all the way back to 1996! (gawd I feel old now. 😋) But you're here to talk #WebDev, so...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Friday, March 8, 2014 In a World… …Where No Selectors Can Be Applied Based on a Single Variable Value… …One Specification Emerges…One Which Will Change Everything… …And That Specification Is… Container Style Queries. 💥 All right, well maybe this doesn't rise to the excitement level of an 80s action movie, but I think it's pretty amazing. Read below to learn how you can add superpowers to your CSS variables. I also talk about a fresh look at the question of if "Jamstack" can be rehabilitated...

2 months ago • 1 min read

Friday, February 23, 2024 Web development news seemed sluggish earlier this month (plus I spent the better part of February very sick!), but now I'm seeing things picking up again—not the least of which is that Firefox 123 is out which finally offers native support for Declarative Shadow DOM (DSD)! Now we can state with confidence that all modern browsers support DSD, and the days of reaching for a polyfill are numbered. 🎉 There's also been a ton of content and conversation floating about...

3 months ago • 2 min read

Friday, January 19, 2024 I've been thinking a lot about blogs and publishing lately, due to various projects I have going on, so it should come as no surprise that one of our news stories today is all about feeds and how to style them. Wait, what? I know, I keep forgetting this is a thing too. I definitely need to grab a coffee, settle in my chair, and write some XSLTs for my blogs! In other news, I've also been starting to play around more with the Matrix chat protocol and various web...

4 months ago • 1 min read

Friday, January 5, 2024 Happy New Year! 🎉 It's been a little while since I sent out a digest, so I'll keep this brief and let you get onto the meat of the newsletter. Let's just say this is quickly shaping up to be a year of massive gains when it comes to the web platform. Not only do we have a plethora of existing APIs which have reached maturity (see the top link below), but new ones are coming online which just might alleviate the need for whole categories of libraries & frameworks. It's...

4 months ago • 2 min read

Friday, December 8, 2023 So I don't know about you, but I'm feeling pumped for what the web can do as we head into 2024. As the CSS Wrapped: 2023 post linked below demonstrates, this year has been absolutely bananas in terms of what's landed in most or all browser engines. And I think the platform is in a tremendous position of strength for more innovation at the core HTML + CSS level to wean us off an unhealthy dependency on oodles of client-side JavaScript. Maybe — just maybe! — we will...

5 months ago • 1 min read

Friday, November 10, 2023 Based on everything I'm seeing, 2024 is shaping up to be an incredible year for fans of vanilla web development. 💥 Lots of features will be entering production-ready status based on browser stats, and I'm betting CSS Nesting will be one of those. We've already had nesting in evergreen browsers, and even now browsers are rolling out "relaxed" nesting which feels even more like the Sass syntax of old. Yet if you stick with the stricter nesting (aka needing to use & in...

6 months ago • 1 min read

Friday, July 28, 2023 Well folks, we made it to newsletter #2, which means it's a trend not a fluke! 😄 By the way, I've been enjoying some good conversation around some of these topics in The Spicy Web Discord, so if you're not on there already, you might want to join. One topic we're still keeping on eye on is Google's proposal to add "attestation" checking to Chrome for "web environment integrity" which has gotten a ton of people rightly concerned. It looks like they're dialing back an...

10 months ago • 1 min read
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