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An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements
13.2.2023
We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance.
Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently set about writing a simple auto-loader: Whenever a custom …
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Using Web Components With Next (or Any SSR Framework)
5.10.2022
In my previous post we looked at Shoelace, which is a component library with a full suite of UX components that are beautiful, accessible, and — perhaps unexpectedly — built with Web Components. This means they can be used …
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Introducing Shoelace, a Framework-Independent Component-Based UX Library
4.10.2022
This is a post about Shoelace, a component library by Cory LaViska, but with a twist. It defines all your standard UX components: tabs, modals, accordions, auto-completes, and much, much more. They look beautiful out of the …
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Building Interoperable Web Components That Even Work With React
7.6.2022
Those of us who’ve been web developers more than a few years have probably written code using more than one JavaScript framework. With all the choices out there — React, Svelte, Vue, Angular, Solid — it’s all but inevitable. One …
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Creating Native Web Components
4.3.2022
Learn how to create and use native web components with the Minze JavaScript framework.
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Web Component Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements are Easier Than You Think
28.2.2022
We’ve discussed a lot about the internals of using CSS in this ongoing series on web components, but there are a few special pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes that, like good friends, willingly smell your possibly halitotic breath before you go …
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Context-Aware Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
21.1.2022
Another aspect of web components that we haven’t talked about yet is that a JavaScript function is called whenever a web component is added or removed from a page. These lifecycle callbacks can be used for many things, including making …
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On Yak Shaving and md-block, a new HTML element for Markdown
29.12.2021
Lea Verou made a Web Component for processing Markdown. Looks like there were a couple of others out there already, but I agree with Lea in that this is a good use case for the light DOM (as opposed …
Spicy Sections
7.12.2021
What if HTML had “tabs”? That would be cool, says I. Dave has been spending some of his time and energy, along with a group of “Tabvengers” from OpenUI, on this. A lot of research leads to a bit …
Supercharging Built-In Elements With Web Components “is” Easier Than You Think
3.9.2021
We’ve already discussed how creating web components is easier than you think, but there’s another aspect of the specification that we haven’t discussed yet and it’s a way to customize (nay, supercharge) a built-in element. It’s similar to …
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Using Web Components in WordPress is Easier Than You Think
12.8.2021
Now that we’ve seen that web components and interactive web components are both easier than you think, let’s take a look at adding them to a content management system, namely WordPress.
There are three major ways we can add them. …
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Awesome Standalone (Web Components)
26.5.2021
In his last An Event Apart talk, Dave made a point that it’s really only just about right now that Web Components are becoming a practical choice for production web development. For example, it has only been about a year …
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Links on Web Components
26.5.2021
How we use Web Components at GitHub — Kristján Oddsson talks about how GitHub is using web components. I remember they were very early adopters, and it says here they released a <relative-time> component in 2014! Now they’ve got a
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Platform News: Using :focus-visible, BBC’s New Typeface, Declarative Shadow DOMs, A11Y and Placeholders
16.4.2021
There’s a whole lot of accessibility in this week’s news, from the nuances of using :focus-visible and input placeholders, to accessible typefaces and a Safari bug with :display: contents. Plus, a snippet for a bare-bones web component that supports …
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Interactive Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
25.3.2021
In my last article, we saw that web components aren’t as scary as they seem. We looked at a super simple setup and made a zombie dating service profile, complete with a custom <zombie-profile> element. We reused the element …
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Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
8.3.2021
When I’d go to a conference (when we were able to do such things) and see someone do a presentation on web components, I always thought it was pretty nifty (yes, apparently, I’m from 1950), but it always seemed complicated …
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Responsible Web Applications
12.2.2021
Joy Heron bought a cool domain name and published an article there:
Luckily, with modern HTML and CSS, we can create responsive and accessible web apps with relative ease. In my years of doing software development, I have learned some
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Styling Web Components
29.1.2021
Nolan Lawson has a little emoji-picker-element that is awfully handy and incredibly easy to use. But considering you’d probably be using it within your own app, it should be style-able so it can incorporated nicely anywhere. How to allow …
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How You Might Build a Modern Day Webring
20.11.2020
I’m sure different people picture different things when they think about webrings, so let me clarify what I picture. I see an element on a website that:
Signifies this site is part of a webring
Allows you to move to the next or previous site of the webring
Maybe has other functionality like...
The failed promise of Web Components
20.10.2020
Lea has some words:
Perusing the components on webcomponents.org fills me with anxiety, and I’m perfectly comfortable writing JS — I write JS for a living! What hope do those who can’t write JS have? Using a custom element from the directory often needs to be preceded by a ritual of...