Layout recalculations, or “reflows”, happen when we change a layout-related property, such as an element’s width, height, or margin. Reflows can happen accidentally or on purpose.   For instance, you might want to have a feature that switches from a grid view to a list view.  In that case, triggering a reflow is essential for […]

HTML has a color input that is pretty decent: That’s it. Support across the board. However, browsers can and do have different approaches to what happens when the input is used. Ultimately: the user activates the input, may choose a color using the provided UI, and the color becomes the inputs value. It’s not my […]

As you continue to evolve in your career to a senior/lead developer, you may stop and wonder what the next step is for you to continue moving forward. “Should I pursue a leadership role?” It’s important to understand that if you do decide to pursue management, that it’s a role change, not a promotion. It’s […]

Sometimes when crafting up some quick interactive vanilla JavaScript, I add an event listener and write the functionality I want to happen right there. For example, here’s a super basic character counter: Totally works. But, you won’t see any character count until you start typing something. That’s probably not ideal. It should count the characters […]

Google has this little UI widget called Baseline that is intended to show you when Web Platform features are supported across a “baseline” of browser support. I’m a little confused by it. It could just be me. I suppose I’m looking either to be enlightened, or to offer this as feedback in case others share […]

I think the styling story for Shadow DOM Web Components is not great. I’ve got what seems to me like a simple idea that would help that. Fair warning: I’m just some dude on the internet with an opinion here. I’m coming at it from an author’s perspective who has only written a handful of […]