Building a TODO App from Scratch — Step 2 — HTML

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OK it’s HTML time! I love HTML time. We’re laying down a foundation that makes everything feel very real. Is HTML jumping the gun? Nah. The reason that we can jump to HTML right away is that it is common to any other future choice we make. As I mentioned, we might just stay in […]

The Case For Design Engineers

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I like the case Jim Nielsen makes here in Part 2 of his series on why a role of “Design Engineer” makes a lot of sense. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either […]

Harmful design in browser choice

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Props to Cennydd Bowles and Harry Bringnull for calling out this poor behavior on Microsoft’s part. Microsoft Edge is literally injecting a big banner on Chrome’s download page telling people that Edge is better. Of all Microsoft’s tactics, the most objectionable for me is their dissuasive messaging injected directly into the Chrome download page. As […]

Playing with Raster to SVG to 3D Tools

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I happen to have bookmarked a few new-to-me SVG tools that all seemed to fit together in interesting ways, so I thought I would have a play and share. Raster to SVG One type of these tools is Raster-to-SVG. That is, taking something like a photo and “vectorizing” it. I happen to have my multivitamin […]

Velvette

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While I was over on Codrops reading Adam’s article about Scroll-Driven animation, I also read Noam Rosenthal’s article about View Transitions. Noam is also at Google and working on the View Transitions API, so knows it pretty intimately, and found enough gaps that a library around it was warranted. That’s what Velvette is: a library […]

Comparing Interop 2024 Choices to the Popular Vote

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Here’s what made the list this year: A little while back I measured the “popular vote” on features based on positive GitHub emoji reactions on the threads. So! How well did what was actually chosen stack up to the popular vote? Let’s see. Interesting results I’d say! It’s kind of all over the map. By […]

Compare Web Animation Techniques

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Looks like the nice folks at Sparkbox put this animation comparison page together a few years ago. I love how extremely comprehensive it is. Of course we can animate things on the web with CSS, and there is a whole JavaScript API for it, and loads of JavaScript libraries all with different characteristics, but don’t […]