The Document Object Model, or the “DOM”, is an interface to web pages. It is essentially an API to the page, allowing programs to read and manipulate the page’s content, structure, and styles. Let’s break this down. How is a web page built? How a browser goes from...

In my article yesterday, I wrote about the problem I was trying to solve with my caniuse embed. To recap, I was trying to create a fallback image for the live embed and I did this by taking a screenshot of the page using puppeteer. Yesterday, I covered how to...

A headless browser is a browser without the graphical user interface. It is a way to navigate the web via the command line. Headless browsers are useful for automating tests of websites as it allows us to navigate to a page and perform actions without having to manually open up...

WebP is an image format developed by Google in 2010. It was created to be an alternative to formats like PNG and JPG, producing much smaller file sizes while maintaining similar image qualities. Why use WebP? WebP is an incredibly useful format because it offers both performance and features. Unlike...

Web workers, service workers, and worklets. All of these are what I would call “Javascript Workers”, and although they do have some similarities in how they work, they have very little overlap in what they are used for. Broadly speaking, a worker is a script that runs on a thread...