Stories by jaffathecake

Give footnotes the boot – alternatives to footnotes on the web

Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important sometimes

How should the new element work?

Video with Alpha Transparency on the Web

JavaScript garbage collection and closures

Handling aspect ratio changes in CSS view transitions

The case against self-closing tags in HTML

The gotchas of unhandled promise rejections in JavaScript

Cross-fading DOM elements is impossible in CSS due to a missing feature

How to win at CORS

JavaScript: `export default thing` is different to `export { thing as default }`

Half the size of images by optimising for high density displays

In JS functions, the ‘last’ return wins

Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams

In JavaScript functions, the last return wins

Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it

Video: How image compression works, and some more advanced encoder settings

DOM event listeners and garbage collection

Who has the fastest website in F1? A deep-dive into real-world web performance

What happens when packages go bad?

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