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HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998
5.12.2025
It's easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998.
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Kritická chyba v Next.js – umožňuje RCE
4.12.2025
Vývojáři Next.js oznámili kritickou zranitelnost v protokolu React Server Components, která nese skóre CVSS 10.0 a může za určitých podmínek umožnit vzdálené spuštění kódu na serveru. Zranitelnost pramení z chyby v implementaci RSC…
Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse
14.11.2025
The extremely new framework that caught lots of attention will continue as a personal project.
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Building a Honeypot Field That Works
20.10.2025
Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field.
Building a Honeypot Field That Works originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean...
On Accessibility Conformance, Design Systems, and CSS “Base” Units
14.8.2025
My brain can’t help but try to make connections between seemingly disparate ideas. And that’s what happened yesterday when I read:
Hidde’s “Can components conform to WCAG?”
Joas’s “Automating Design Systems”
Zell’s “We Might Need...
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements”
13.8.2025
I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when creating reusable components.
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements” originally published...
KelpUI
26.6.2025
KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I've enjoyed following Chris as he's published an ongoing series of articles detailing his thought process behind the library, getting deep into his approach. You really get...
Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript
1.4.2025
One thing we can do to help teams code consistently is provide type-checking so that all of the configurable options for a specific component are available while coding. Bryan demonstrates how he does this with TypeScript when working with Astro components.
Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components...
Web Components Demystified
14.3.2025
Scott Jehl released a course called Web Components Demystified. This is my full set of notes from Scott's course. You'll still want to take the course on your own, and I encourage you to because Scott is an excellent teacher who makes all of this stuff extremely accessible, even to noobs like...
Baseline Status in a WordPress Block
5.2.2025
The steps for how I took the Baseline Status web component and made it into a WordPress block that can be used on any page of post.
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CSS Wrapped 2024
6.12.2024
Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome and the web platform in 2024, highlighting 17 new features
That breaks down (approximately) as:
Five components
Interactions
Developer experience…
CSS Wrapped 2024...
Getting Started with Piecesjs: Building Native Web Components with a Lightweight Framework
21.10.2024
Piecesjs is a lightweight JavaScript framework built upon native web components, offering a suite of tools and utilities tailored for creative websites
The selectmenu Element is No More…Long Live select!
23.9.2024
I was looking over an older article Patrick Brosset penned for us introducing <selectmenu>, a new proposal at the time for a more style-able cousin to <select>. From there, I clicked the linked-up <selectmenu> explainer and got… this:…
The selectmenu Element...
Quick Hit #16
5.9.2024
“Never, ever hire for JavaScript framework skills. Instead, interview and hire only for fundamentals like web standards, accessibility, modern CSS, semantic HTML, and Web Components.” — Alex Russell…
Quick Hit #16 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Introducing <shelly-wc>
28.8.2024
I created a little library at work to make those “skeleton screens” that I’m not sure anyone likes. […] We named it skellyCSS because… skeletons and CSS, I guess. We still aren’t even really using it very much, but it
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Quick Hit #12
23.8.2024
Giant kudos to Scott Jehl on releasing his new Web Components De-Mystified online course! Eight full hours of training from one of the best in the business.…
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Callbacks on Web Components?
22.8.2024
A gem from Chris Ferdinandi that details how to use custom events to hook into Web Components. More importantly, Chris dutifully explains why custom events are a better fit than, say, callback functions.
With a typical JavaScript library, you pass
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Callbacks on Web Components? originally...
Server-first Web Components with DSD, HTMX, and Islands
20.8.2024
A simple yet powerful approach to Web Component server-rendering, declarative behaviors, and JavaScript islands
HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and CSS Encapsulation Easier!
1.8.2024
I have to thank Jeremy Keith and his wonderfully insightful article from late last year that introduced me to the concept of HTML Web Components. This was the “a-ha!” moment for me:
When you wrap some existing markup in a
…
HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and...
Smashing Hour With Dave Rupert
30.7.2024
Smashing Magazine invited me to sit down for a one-on-one with “Uncle” Dave Rupert to discuss web components, yes, but also check in on Dave’s new Microsoft gig and what the ShopTalk co-host is working on these days.
I first …
Smashing Hour With Dave Rupert originally...