dead framework theory | AI Focus
This is depressing.
Operators in JavaScript—handy! I didn’t know about most of these.
This is depressing.
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.
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
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Responses to my thoughts on why developers would trust third-party code more than a native browser feature.
I’m trying to understand why developers would trust third-party code more than a native browser feature.
Abstracting common interaction patterns as a starting point for accessible components.
An interface pattern for Ajax interactions that’s borrowed from video games.
Kicking the tyres on a declarative Web Share API.