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This proposal is exactly what I was asking for!
C’mon browsers, let’s make this happen!
New Web Development. Or, why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev – Baldur Bjarnason
The paradigm shift that web development is entering hinges on the fact that while React was a key enabler of the Single-Page-App and Component era of the web, in practice it normally tends to result in extremely poor products. Built-in browser APIs are now much more capable than they were when React was first invented.
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“Just” One Line - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s a big difference between the interface to a thing being one line of code, and the cost of a thing being one line of code.
A more acute rendering of this sales pitch is probaly: “It’s just one line of code to add many more lines of code.”
And as Chris puts it:
Every dependency is a potential vulnerability
Futuristic Progressive Enhancement - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
We’re all tired of: write some code, come back to it in six months, try to make it do more, and find the whole project is broken until you upgrade everything.
Progressive enhancement allows you to do the opposite: write some code, come back to it in six months, and it’s doing more than the day you wrote it!
Untapped – Using Simple Tools as a Radical Act of Independence
It would be much harder for a 15-year-old today to View Source and understand the code structure that built the website they’re on. Every site is layered with analytics, code snippets, javascript plugins, CMS data, and more.
This is why the simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.
Intent to Ship: View Transitions Same-Origin Navigation
Finally! View transitions for multi-page apps (AKA websites) will be landing in Chrome soon—here’s hoping other browsers follow suit. Mozilla are up for it. Apple are, as usual, silent on their intentions.
Nice to see a blog post of mine referenced to show that this is a highly-requested feature. Blogging gets results, folks!
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Web App install API
It’s kind of ridiculous that this functionality doesn’t exist yet.
Browser support
Here’s Clearleft’s approach to browser support. You can use it too (it’s CC-licensed).
Speculation rules and fears
Browser are user agents, not developer agents.
Speculation rules
A performance boost in Chrome.
Baseline progressive enhancement
If a browser feature can be used as a progressive enhancement, you don’t have to wait for all browsers to support it.