Jake Archibald

Surma @surma.dev [ View ] May 02, 2024 at 11:25 UTC

ICYMI: In the most recent OTMT podcast episode, @jakearchibald.com and I talk about putting React in the browser.

While that’s good clickbait, the episode is about about past and present platform proposals that aim to help frameworks with managing the DOM.

offthemainthread.tech/episode/putt...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 08:34 UTC

We use self-closing syntax in HTML where it doesn't do anything. People see it and assume it does something.

Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

www.reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 07:20 UTC

Yeah, I considered it, but it just didn't seem like it mattered

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 11:32 UTC

📝 HTML attributes vs DOM properties.

They're completely different, but often coupled.

Here's the difference, and why it matters: jakearchibald.com/2024/attribu...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Apr 22, 2024 at 13:35 UTC

🧶 What would it mean to "put React in the browser"?

Can something like element.replaceHTML(html) be added to the platform to perform diffing and update the DOM?

Me and @surma.dev talk it through: offthemainthread.tech/episode/putt...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Apr 05, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

🧶 ICYMI, here's the latest episode of OTMT, where me and @surma.dev chat about service worker static routes, and whether it's ever ok to throw away most of the web platform and do everything in <canvas>.

Listen here: offthemainthread.tech/episode/canv...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Mar 06, 2024 at 10:08 UTC

Ok, so if `display: block` makes the thing full width, `block-size` will change the width. lol no guess again!

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Mar 06, 2024 at 10:08 UTC

I get it. I get the whole point of it. But CSS logical properties are so confusing. Even after reading the first two paragraphs of developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... I'm left thinking ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKIN RIDDLES.

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 11:47 UTC

The only recent spec activity on this is a `headinglevelstart` attribute which can be set to a number. I proposed an 'auto' value for this, but it was dismissed for the initial feature (but may happen later) github.com/whatwg/html/...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 11:41 UTC

It's such a mess that we still can't use headings in HTML fragments, and have the heading structure be local to that part of the document. It's so shit that browsers shipped the styling part of <section> + <h1> but not the accessibility part. That was the important bit.

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

Thankfully most of it is still relevant

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 16:36 UTC

Apple are no longer going to unship web app features for EU users following the release of this podcast.

Coincidence?

yes

developer.apple.com/support/dma-....

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 11:23 UTC

very

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 11:09 UTC

🔊 Apple is removing web app features from Safari in the EU, rather than allowing other browsers to have those features on iOS.

Here's a new episode of OTMT with all the details, and what you can do about it:

offthemainthread.tech/episode/the-...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Feb 21, 2024 at 14:28 UTC

Writing is one of the few things I miss from devrel life. Felt good to get a post out.

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Feb 21, 2024 at 13:42 UTC

📝 New post: Handling aspect ratio changes in view transitions.

Lots of tips on customising view transitions, and of course, live demos.

jakearchibald.com/2024/view-tr...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Feb 21, 2024 at 12:44 UTC

See open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attemp... for the actions. They're talking to regulators, but they need evidence from more developers.

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Feb 21, 2024 at 09:13 UTC

Rather than allow other browser engines to install-to-homescreen on iOS, Apple is removing the feature entirely in the EU.

Some features are tied to install-to-homescreen, such as push messages. Apple is unshipping those for EU users.

We need to act now: open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attemp...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Feb 02, 2024 at 07:55 UTC

View transitions isn't being included either, but I'm less sad about that, because it can be used as progressive enhancement. github.com/web-platform...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Feb 02, 2024 at 07:54 UTC

Really sad that the Navigation API isn't being included in interop 2024. This API makes a night-and-day difference to handling navigations. It cannot be polyfilled, and cannot really be used as progressive enhancement. We need it yesterday.
github.com/web-platform...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Feb 01, 2024 at 09:51 UTC

This always catches me out:

When specifying grid-template sizes, if values aren't wrapped in minmax(), then they're implicitly minmax(auto, value).

So 1fr is implicitly minmax(auto, 1fr).

If you actually want 1fr, you need to use minmax(0, 1fr).

codepen.io/jaffathecake...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com [ View ] Jan 24, 2024 at 13:16 UTC

📴🧵 OMGOTMT it's a new episode of Off The Main Thread!
In this episode, @surma.dev talks about Bevvy, an ECS game engine written in Rust, then we take a look at TC39 Stage 3 stuff that hasn't yet gone into browsers, and pick some favourites.

offthemainthread.tech/episode/tc39...

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