はてなブックマーク

Warning This article was written over six months ago, and may contain outdated information. With the release of version 30, Firefox becomes the latest browser to support CSS Blend Modes (Chrome has had them for a few months, and support is on the way in Safari 8). But what are blend modes? What is blending, for that matter? If you’ve ever used image editing tools like Photoshop, Sketch or GIMP, yo

Warning This article was written over six months ago, and may contain outdated information. I don’t write much in the way of production-ready code at the moment, so some of the cooler recent developments in JavaScript have passed me by. In this post I want to address that with a look at a couple of nice new(-ish) features: mutation observers and object observers. I remember reading about mutation

Warning This article was written over six months ago, and may contain outdated information. On the 21st of March I had the pleasure of participating in the Web Components panel at Edge Conf, and the privilege of giving the introduction to the panel. I’m a strong advocate of Web Components and it was great to be able to provide my opinion on them, alongside some real experts in the field, as well a

Warning This article was written over six months ago, and may contain outdated information. It can’t have escaped your notice that iOS7 was recently released, and with it a new version of Safari. Among many additions and changes to its standards support comes (partial) implementation of the new Web Speech API. This API has two core features: speech recognition, which uses a web service to transcri

Warning This article was written over six months ago, and may contain outdated information. You may have heard of Web Components, a suite of emerging standards that make it possible to build secure reusable widgets using web platform technologies. One of the first specs to make its way into implementation is HTML Templates, embodied by the template element, which as I write this is implemented in

Warning This article was written over six months ago, and may contain outdated information. I’ve been really excited about the @supports rule since I first heard the proposal for it, and now that an implementation has landed in Firefox Nightly (and is on it’s way in Opera) my excitement has only increased. You can think of @supports as a native implementation of Modernizr – and hopefully that desc

Warning This article was written over six months ago, and may contain outdated information. I recently became the owner of an Android phone* and found that, despite it being listed as a feature of the browser, the HTML5 video element didn’t work for almost all of the examples I tried. I’ve just done some experimentation with this and think I’ve found a solution, so this post is offered in the hope