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Tag: web

  • Image representing post: Running Code Over Time

    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.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (578 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 9 January, 2020
  • 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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    • Repost
    • 2 comments
    • posted 3 January, 2020
  • 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.

    Read more (435 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 15 November, 2019
  • 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.

    Read more (278 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 8 November, 2019
  • Image representing post: Consume less, create more

    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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    • 2 comments
    • posted 2 October, 2019
  • Annabel explores the Talking Maps digital interactives.

    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.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1480 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 20 September, 2019
  • Chrome's experimental fragment text link targetting

    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).

    Read more (407 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 17 September, 2019
  • 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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    • Repost
    • posted 22 July, 2019
  • Diagram illustrating the relationships between DanQ.me and the satellite services with which it interacts.

    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.

    Read more - about 8 minutes (1869 words)

    • Article
    • 9 comments
    • posted 15 July, 2019
  • DanQ.me scoring 100/100 in all four Lighthouse categories

    #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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    • 3 comments
    • posted 6 July, 2019
  • We Will Rock . EU

    Remember NonStopHammerTi.me? By order of the Queen, Dan will Remain committed to an idea.

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    • Note
    • posted 17 June, 2019
  • The problem with single page apps

    Chris Ferdinandi shares his concerns about SPAs, and I echo with my own.

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    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 13 June, 2019
  • Sports on the BBC News site

    BBC News... without the sport

    A lightweight Ruby program to republish the BBC News RSS feed... but without the sports articles.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (619 words)

    • Article
    • 9 comments
    • posted 14 May, 2019
  • 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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    • Repost
    • posted 9 May, 2019
  • Installing NonStopHammerTi.me as a standalone PWA in Edge

    Edge Blink and Progressive Web Apps

    Dan investigates the pioneering Progressive Web App features of Edge Dev.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (712 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 19 April, 2019

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