On the origin of cascades
This is a great talk by Hidde, looking at the history and evolution of cascading style sheets. Right up my alley!
Polyfilling The HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript
An in-depth look at browser polyfills: what they are, how they work, and how you can make your own.
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More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Resource Hints - Speaker Deck
Slides from Harry’s deep dive into rel values: preconnect, prefetch, and preload.
The Critical Request - Speaker Deck
There are some handy performance tips from Ben in this slide deck.
In this talk we’ll study how browsers determine which requests should be made, in what order, and what prevents the browser from rendering content quickly.
HTML5 Constraint Validation
The slides from a presentation by Drew on all the functionality that browsers give us for free when it comes to validating form inputs.
Half the battle of the web platform is knowing what technology is out there, ready to use. We’re all familiar with the ability to declare validation constraints in our HTML5 forms, but were you aware there’s a JavaScript API that goes along with it?
What We Don’t Know // Speaker Deck
The slides from Chris’s presentation on the known unknowns of the web.
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Speaking at Web Day Out
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Move Fast and Don’t Break Things by Scott Jehl
A presentation at An Event Apart Seattle 2019.
A polyfill for button type=”share”
Kicking the tyres on a declarative Web Share API.
Reasoning
In which I find a tagline for Web Day Out and a tagline for React.
The ghost of browsers past
Delving into old-fashioned parsing rules.