Posts

Jan 11, 2026
A Case for poster on Canvas

The HTML <canvas> element has a gap that <video> solved years ago: there's no declarative way to provide a static visual representation. When JavaScript hasn't run, can't run, or the pa...
Dec 23, 2025
Breaking into realism with AI

AI isn't magic. It hallucinates, misses context, and confidently produces junk. But if you understand where it's useful, it becomes powerful for amplifying what you do.
Apr 4, 2017
Containers website assignment

At Mozilla we have been working on a feature called containers, which gives users the ability to separate their lives online to prevent being tracked.
May 16, 2016
role="password" is not wise

TL;DR: ARIA is a hack on real accessibility, reimplementing HTML in ARIA is silly, subverting password managers is evil, expecting the developers to start using role="password" likely wont happen, ...
Mar 2, 2015
Client side armour

As web attacks become far more common place, specifications are quickly getting ratified to stop the common attack vectors from being used. W3C has set up a Security Working Group just for improvin...
Feb 22, 2015
Out of the shadows

Disclaimer - This article discusses topics which are not cemented yet, may change and likely won't work without browser shims / hacks. This article uses <"shadow-tree"></> syntax like t...
Jul 16, 2014
Making a dynamic palette today

Creating dynamic CSS doesn't sound exciting, however it is certainly a time management issue of large scale sites on the web. This has lead to the advancement of preprocessing CSS and other methodo...
Jul 10, 2014
VALIDATE me baby

There are many times that I have been writing sites with the desire for the client side to call the server in a safe and idempotent way with a request body for sending more data than a GET can, or ...
Jun 25, 2014
Google as a Service (GaaS)

Google appears to be pushing further into the open internet platform in a land grab bid against closed source providers. As other articles are suggesting, Google is pushing the 'Android everywhere'...
Jun 20, 2014
My new favourite colour

The all new CSS colour: 'rebeccapurple' which is backed with one of the most moving stories I have heard in a long time.
Mar 5, 2014
Making a performance

Don't over optimise too earlyA common trend I see more in JavaScript, than in any other language is to over optimise every line of code.This comes in many flavours but the two most common are:
Mar 3, 2014
Why I now love CSS Values and Units module

What I first thought
Nov 8, 2013
Give the world back FollowRedirects XMLHttpRequest

So having written enough heavy AJAX applications I can tell you that a massive frustration is that there isnot any ability to detect natively when the browser follows a redirect over AJAX, this mak...
Oct 25, 2013
Trialling laravel PHP

Laravel was suggested to me last week and I have only just got time to take a look at it properly.
Oct 21, 2013
Pushing restart on blogging

I have been inspired to write blogs over the years, without ever making more than several posts before quitting.