- Start with mostly static HTML.
- Progressively enhance the dynamic parts.
- Pick small, focused tools.
This really gets to the heart of one of the biggest benefits of HTML web components: composability. You can nest your regular markup inside multiple custom elements; something that is can’t do.
The other exciting approach doesn’t exist yet: custom attributes. Again, they’d be a great way of using composability to turbo-charge your existing HTML in all sorts of ways.
Hallelujah! Support for sizes="auto" is finally landing in Firefox and Safari! Praise be!
This is such a brilliant idea! Why not allow an img element inside video element in order to provide a responsive, accessible poster image?
Here’s another nice progressive web component for your forms, this time for showing error messages.
Here’s an excellent progressive web component from Aaron—wrap a custom element around your exising form and your good to go:
At its core,
form-saveris a small web component that wraps a form, keeps an eye on it, stores values inlocalStorage, and restores them when the page loads again. Better yet, it clears out saved data after a successful submission so you’re not accidentally resurrecting stale information the next time someone stops by.
How I’m prioritising performance when it comes to typography on The Session.
Knock, knock! Who’s there? Control freak (now you say “control freak who?”)
Here’s an HTML web component you can use if you’re participating in the origin trial for the Web Install API.
Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.
A redesign with modern CSS.