This is an interesting API that just landed in the newest version of Chrome behind a token—it gives you programmatic access to the OS’s share functionality via a (secure) website.
Paul finishes this rundown with the interesting bit:
Future work will also level the playing field for web apps, by allowing them to register to be a “share receiver”, enabling web-to-app sharing, app-to-web sharing and web-to-web sharing.
Maybe I’ll get to see a native “huffduff this” option in my lifetime.
When I was in Amsterdam I was really impressed with the code that Rose was writing and I encouraged her to share it. Here it is: drop this script into a web page with a form to have its values automatically saved into local storage (and automatically loaded into the form if something goes wrong before the form is submitted).
Max describes how he does bookmarking on his own site—he’s got a bookmarklet for sharing links, like I do. But he goes further with a smart use of the “share target” section in his web app manifest, as described by Aaron.
By the way, Max’s upcoming talk at the Web Clerks conference in Vienna sounds like it’s going to be unmissable!
Well, this could be very handy for Huffduffer!
One dev team made the shift from React’s “overwhelming VDOM” to modern DOM APIs. They immediately saw speed and interaction improvements.
Yay! But:
…finding developers who know vanilla JavaScript and not just the frameworks was an “unexpected difficulty.”
Boo!
Also, if you have a similar story to tell about going cold turkey on React, you should share it with Richard:
If you or your company has also transitioned away from React and into a more web-native, HTML-first approach, please tag me on Mastodon or Threads. We’d love to share further case studies of these modern, dare I say post-React, approaches.
The thinking behind the minimal JavaScript framework, Strawberry:
Even without specialized syntax, you can do a lot of what the usual frontend framework does—with similar conciseness—just by using
ProxyandWebComponents.
An alternate route to a declarative version of the Web Share API.
Ideas for some declarative shortcuts.
Something about a browser that grinds your gears? Share it!
Here’s a little thing I learned.
Messing around with Intl.RelativeTimeFormat on The Session.