Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. This show records LIVE on Thursdays at 1pm US/Eastern time. Panelists include Jerod Santo, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Kevin Ball, Amelia Wattenberger, Nick Nisi, Divya Sasidharan, Mikeal Rogers, Chris Hiller, and Amal Hussein. Topics discussed include the web platform (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, etc), front-end frameworks (React, Ember, Angular, Vue, etc), Node.js, web animation, SVG, robotics, IoT, and much more. If JavaScript and/or the web touch your life, this show’s for you. Some people search for JSParty and can’t find the show, so now the string JSParty is in our description too.
All the stale things
Divya leads a deep discussion with Jerod, KBall, and Nick on what’s stagnating in browsers. What has remained the same in browser tech over the last 20 years that remains a pain point in working with browsers? For example - Focus in browsers hasn’t changed much in 20 years. Why is that and how do we go about making all the stale things in browser tech better?
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Featuring
- Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub
- Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Notes and Links
Segment 1: APIs that were not developed
- [Proposal] Focus Traversal API
- Input elements are still terrible; CSS appearance property
- Container queries
- Dates still suck, but they are being fixed
- Luxon
- Web Components (RIP?)
- BUT Shadow DOM
- Consistency of CSS Properties BUT Houdini
- Button cursor — why do still have to do
button { cursor: pointer; }??? - SVG amazing but still 2nd class citizen
- Accessibility should be down in the browser
Segment 2: Hypothesizing
- Why didn’t these APIs get anywhere?
- What would’ve needed to happen for them to have progressed?
- Browser wars; the move towards chromium
Segment 3: Shout-outs!!
(in order of appearance)
- KBall: Rachel Andrew’s CSS Grid articles: Understanding CSS Grid: Creating A Grid Container and Understanding CSS Grid: Grid Lines
- Jerod: Justine Haupt’s open source DIY rotary cell phone
- Nick: Tatiana Mac’s talk titled How Privilege Defines Performance
- Divya: Understanding the ECMAScript spec, part 1