Tag: web
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Running Code Over Time
Eric Meyer finds a long-standing bug in his aging personal website, and Dan uses it as an excuse for yet another rant about Web standards and longevity.
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This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
Dan looks at what Jeff Huang's manifesto means for him individually as a blogger.
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Third party
Jeremy Keith wonders if the Web would have third-party cookies and JS at all if it were invented today, and Dan weighs in.
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Should accessibility features be optional?
Go Make Things talks about the duty of library developers to add on-by-default accessibility features, and Dan summarises the conclusion.
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Consume less, create more
We should spend less time reading and more time writing online. Dan's comments on an inspiring essay.
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Using the Web for Exhibition Interactives
As he writes up notes for his successor, Dan explains how the Bodleian's interactive digital signage uses the power of the Web.
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Proposal to allow specifying a text snippet in a URL fragment
Chrome's implemented an experimental feature to allow deeplinking to arbitrary text content, which is awesome (with Dan's comments).
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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
Carter Sande observes that MDN ran faster on old-fashioned hyperlinks than it did with Javascript background loading, and explains why.
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DanQ.me Ecosystem
Dan explains how he produces content for the Web, and his blog's place in the ecosystem of the places his content can be seen.
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#TodayILearned that if you get a perfect 100-100-100-100 + #PWA score from @Google's site performance/accessibility/best practice/SEO tool "@____lighthouse" then you're treated to an animated fireworks display alongside your scores. (Yes, this is for danq.me.)
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Remember NonStopHammerTi.me? By order of the Queen, Dan will Remain committed to an idea.
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The problem with single page apps
Chris Ferdinandi shares his concerns about SPAs, and I echo with my own.
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BBC News... without the sport
A lightweight Ruby program to republish the BBC News RSS feed... but without the sports articles.
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remysharp comments on "Bringing back the Web of 1990"
A MetaFilter comment I somehow missed in which Remy Sharp acknowledges my debugging of the CERN hackathon to reimplement WorldWideWeb. Squee!
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Edge Blink and Progressive Web Apps
Dan investigates the pioneering Progressive Web App features of Edge Dev.








