A first look at the Web Install API

By Chris Coyier on

Bruce Lawson: I was excited to see that the proposed new Web Install API has entered Origin Trial in Chromium. It kind of works in Chromium Canary, but is most complete in Microsoft Edge beta […] The reason I was excited is because I read the Web install API explainer when it was announced a few months ago: The […]

Preserve State While Moving Elements in the DOM

By Chris Coyier on

Bramus wrote this almost a year ago, but I’d still call it a relatively new feature of JavaScript and one very worth knowing about. With Node.prototype.moveBefore you can move elements around a DOM tree, without resetting the element’s state. You don’t need it to maintain event listeners, but, as Bramus notes, it’ll keep an iframe loaded, animations […]