Chris Coyier

An overview of what’s new in language features, frameworks, runtimes, build tools, testing, and more.

There is a category of apps that help record short-form videos, mostly screencasts. For those of you who work on products that you need to showcase/teach people how to use, video can be super effective. Here’s a list of the ones I’ve seen for reference: I’ve been trying them out for videos like this, but […]

Josh Tumath: Have you ever noticed that when you increase the system text size in your iOS or Android phone’s accessibility settings, the text gets bigger everywhere except on the web? On Safari and Chrome, it makes absolutely no difference. New thing: <meta name=text-scale>  This isn’t page zoom, which scales everything, it’s just respects the […]

An image gallery is a nice example of AIM, where the larger version of an image can “morph” out from the smaller one when opened, and back in when closed.

There is so much new web technology happening all the time, it is definitely not your fault if you feel like you can’t keep up with it. Big thumbs up to the new service BaseWatch, which will let you know when web technologies you care about become widely available, and thus potentially close enough to […]

Just two short long years ago, I wrote an article here called Document Collaboration (with Comments!). As a long-time blogger who helps others with their articles too, I’ve played with lots of tools to help with this flow. I put some options in that post, but none are perfect. The big names come with baggage […]

The new .setHTML() method in JavaScript, part of the Sanitizer API, can be a one-to-one replacement for .innerHTML(), making sites more secure from XSS attacks. I think that’s pitch-perfect feature branding from Mozilla on this: Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148. Listen to Frederik Braun go deep into this on ShopTalk […]

It’s a strange situation where some CSS is disallowed, some is allowed but breaks the button, and some is capped.

As it stands, you have to think about the layout engine and whether an element is “fully laid out” before an anchor is allowed to apply to it. Boooooo.

A Brief History of JavaScript from the Deno team, celebrating JavaScript being 30 now. Interesting that the first web request tech was Internet Explorer 5 in 1999, then it took 5 years to get Gmail in 2004, then we started calling it AJAX in 2005, and by 2006, we got jQuery’s $.ajax which made it […]