StyleURL - share CSS tweaks instantly
This is an interesting tool: mess around with styles on any site inside Chrome’s dev tools, and then hit a button to have the updated styles saved to a URL (a Gist on Github).
SCALABLE: Save form data to localStorage and auto-complete on refresh
When I was in Amsterdam I was really impressed with the code that Rose was writing and I encouraged her to share it. Here it is: drop this script into a web page with a form to have its values automatically saved into local storage (and automatically loaded into the form if something goes wrong before the form is submitted).
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Service Worker Registration | Web Fundamentals | Google Developers
Hmm …seems like I should probably wait for the load event before triggering navigator.serviceworker.register().
The Service Worker Lifecycle
The life cycle of a Service Worker—with all its events and states—is the one bit that I’ve never paid that much attention to. My eyes just glaze over when it comes to installation, registration, and activation. But this post explains the whole process really clearly. Now it’s starting to make sense to me.
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Debating complexity is pointless because it’s a subjective metric. Every developer has a different gut feeling about simplicity, complexity and the appropriate amount of complexity for a given task. When people try to find an objective definition, they come to wildly different results. And that’s okay.
Instead, we should focus on hard metrics from a user perspective. Performance, efficiency, compatibility, accessibility and fault-tolerance can be measured, tested and evaluated, automatically and manually.
Any amount of complexity is fine as long as these goals are met.
The State of ES5 on the Web
This is grim:
If you look at the data below on how popular websites today are actually transpiling and deploying their code to production, it turns out that most sites on the internet ship code that is transpiled to ES5, yet still doesn’t work in IE 11—meaning the transpiler and polyfill bloat is being downloaded by 100% of their users, but benefiting none of them.
Related posts
Registering service workers
Pour one out for rel=”serviceworker”
Displaying HTML web components
You might want to use `display: contents` …maybe.
Switching costs
The enshittification of React …which was already pretty shitty for users.
JavaScript
Inside me there are two wolves. They’re both JavaScript.
Bugblogging
Also, tipblogging.