🆕 blog! “How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?” A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - […]

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That’s a first: GitHub’s Advisory Database (incorrectly) flags Puppeteer as malware. github.com/github/advis... We are no longer able to publish new releases. Are there any GitHub or Microsoft folks here who can help escalate this?

Temporal is now Stage 4 at TC39 🎂🎂🎂 Thanks to all the other champions of JavaScript's new date-time API. It has been a wild ride over many years! I wrote a blog post explaining how we got here 📜 bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post...

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...

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CSS uses a complex algorithm to decide how to animate transforms. If you get it wrong, as many folks do, you end up with an unnatural animation. Here's how it works, and how to avoid the pitfalls. jakearchibald.com/2025/animati...

✍️ I did an explainer on the CPU and GPU and how they coordinate tasks between them. Going to a series on rendering💥

Here's the new 2025 reset.css: h1 { margin-block: 0.67em; font-size: 2em; } Thank you for adopting this on all your sites! See github.com/whatwg/html/...

Uplevel your regex-fu with my deep dive into JS regex history on Smashing Magazine. www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/08/hist... Lots of new and powerful regex features you might have missed from recent versions of JavaScript!

Re: Opera bug: For more coolness, play around with the size of the tab bar: https://imageshack.com/ /re @mathias /cc @vasilis @brucel

@Heilemann Blank page with 500 Internal Server Error == syntax error. Which editor are you using? Some of them have built-in syntax checking

@rem …make sure the *end user* gets the best experience possible. If bytes can be omitted without affecting performance, do it. /re @mathias

@rem Re: remove comment info — Yeah, good point. Using rem.im to shorten the URL would save some extra bytes ;) /re @mathias

Looks like @jdalton made a shorter version of @rem’s HTML5 enabling shim/shiv: https://gist.github.com/296128 41 characters less, yay!

Photoshoot effect using jQuery and CSS: https://demo.tutorialzine.com/2010/02/photo-shoot-css-jquery/demo.html

Oh wow — Google uses a proprietary algorithm to determine which businesses are hidden from Maps results. http://to./iw2 /via @netlash

How to test your JavaScript code with QUnit: https://code.tutsplus.com/how-to-test-your-javascript-code-with-qunit--net-9077t

@roy <div id="content"> → <section> <div id="sidebar"> → <aside> <div class="blog-post"> → <article> /re @mathias

@roy “…to use elements of the appropriate rank for the section’s nesting level.” Another good read: http://is.gd/7FSrC /re @mathias

@roy …no harm is done, right? /re @mathias

@jamespadolsey Do yourself a favor, and stop using the Twitter web interface. Get a Twitter client!

@roelvangils “Wij adviseren niet om bezoekers met Internet Explorer 6 te weren. […]” /cc @vasilis /re @mathias

Worst URL shortener ever: https://www.godaddy.com/forsale/nig.gr?utm_source=TDFS_BINNS2&utm_medium=parkedpages&utm_campaign=x_corp_tdfs-binns2_base&traffic_type=TDFS_BINNS2&traffic_id=binns2&

An HTML5 offline image editor and uploader application: http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/imageUploader/

‘Life Below 600px’: http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/ /by @paddydonnelly

In LOTR3, when Theoden (→ interwebs) is dying, the Witch King (→ Steve) says to his steed (→ iPad), “Feast on his flesh (→ Flash)”. Om nom^3

Quickly look up jQuery method sources using the jQuery Source Viewer: https://j11y.io/jquery/ /by @jamespadolsey

View anyone’s Facebook friends list (hidden or not) based on user ID: https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/facebook-friends #privacy #fail

Unless you check the ‘Public Search Results’ checkbox on Facebook, anyone could retrieve your friend list—hidden or not: https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4726/view-facebook-friend-list-hidden-or-not-hidden

Just launched the new @toykyokids website/shop: http://toykyokids.be/ Design by @geldwolf. #html5

Google’s internal data suggests that Unicode is nearing 50% of the web: https://is.gd/7la7Y UTF-8 ftw, y’all.

@ara_p You can load jquery.js several times, it will just overwrite the jQuery namespace. http://output.jsbin.com/uhawa But why would you want to?

As of March 1st, Google drops support for IE6: https://is.gd/7jVIm /via @krijnhoetmer

Anyone looking for a free CeBIT 2010 ticket? I’m giving away two.

Forgot your Windows password? No problem. https://i.imgur.com/utaj2.gif

Dynamic dummy image generator: https://dummyimage.com/ Example: https://dummyimage.com/640x480 /via @krijnhoetmer

SublimeVideo, a beautiful HTML5 video player: https://www.jilion.com/ More info: http://is.gd/76rRN

Pure CSS coke can: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/pure-css-coke-can/

WTF of the day: whois google.com https://i.imgur.com/XMEhZ.png

@davidhund I assumed it was, since they store the data on Google servers and all… #omfg #didijustgetphised #confused /re @mathias

YouTube is about to suck: https://i.imgur.com/MNaIu.jpg

WTF: “Hello Sir, Would you be interested in selling your twitter name @mathias? :) Thank you for answer. Best regards, Mathias Mikkelsen.”

YouTube launches an opt-in beta of an HTML5-based video player: https://is.gd/6IQwM

if(!+'\v1') { alert('Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera rule — get one of them!'); }; /cc @codepo8

The new JS Bin is live: http://jsbin.com/

iTunes Library Dead Files Fixer app: http://itunes.pornel.net/ /by @pornelski

HTML5 Placeholder jQuery Plugin: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-placeholder Based on @paul_irish’s supah hawt snippet: https://www.northyorkshirehotels.net/en/jquery14.html

.@Castemelijn …account could use password recovery to get the plain password sent over. Reversible or no encryption doesn’t really matter.

.@Castemelijn That still wouldn’t be very secure, now would it? The problem is that anyone with (temporary) access to someone else’s mail…