Tagged “resilience”

One web component to rule them all? (on Filament Group, Inc.)

11 May 2021 in webcomponents

Scott Jehl has taken a refreshingly Progressive Enhancement -centric look at Web Components.

this pattern provides a nice hook for adding progressive enhancements to already-meaningful HTML contained in these custom elements, leaving them resilient in the case of of script loading failures and allowing the page to start rendering before the JS happens to run.

Progressively enhanced JavaScript In Real Life

22 January 2021 in resilience

Over the last couple of days I’ve witnessed a good example of progressive enhancement “In Real Life”. And I think it’s good to log and share these validations of web development best practices when they happen so that their benefits can be seen as real rather than theoretical.

Thoughts on inline JavaScript event handlers in the <head>

10 August 2020 in javascript

I’ve been thinking about Scott Jehl’s “simplest way to load external CSS asynchronously” technique. I’m interested in its use of an inline (onload) event handler for running JavaScript-based enhancements in the <head>, in the context of some broader ruminations on how best to progressively enhance UI elements with JavaScript (for example adding toggle show/hide) without causing layout jank.