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Since we’re still stuck with a small percentage of users still on various versions of Internet Explorer and other older browsers, a good way to deal with those seems to be to only serve most or all of our JavaScript and CSS to browsers that cut the mustard, leaving the older set with a basic but functional experience, without risk that our newer, shiny stuff will inevitably break, or the need for polyfills that may or may not work.

See also: Cutting the mustard with only CSS

More evidence that we don’t fully control our web pages and that a non-zero number of page views don’t execute JavaScript fully or correctly, despite it being enabled.

Says @ianfeather at #AllDayHey — “our monitoring tells us that around 1% of requests for JavaScript on BuzzFeed timeout. That’s around 13 million requests per month.” A reminder if one were needed that we should design for resilience

This excellent video by Physics Girl breaks down some of the misconceptions about what we programmers actually do and why we do what we do, with a focus on women and femme people in the field. I could relate especially to the discussion about it being very much about enjoying problem solving.

Stencil is a compiler that generates Web Components (more specifically, Custom Elements). Stencil combines the best concepts of the most popular frameworks into a simple build-time tool.

Stencil takes features such as

• Virtual DOM
• Async rendering (inspired by React Fiber)
• Reactive data-binding
• TypeScript
• JSX

and then generates standards-based Web Components with these features baked in.

There’s something appealing about the roundness of this font, especially at heavier weights.

Here’s a pretty awesome open source, MIT-licensed icon pack.

This is a great resource that lists which ServiceWorker features are supported by which major browsers.

A great discussion thread at the Web Incubator Community Group on creating a standardized way requesting that the browser lazy load images.

See also: Preventing downloading images or objects until they are visible in the viewport - WHATWG