Baseline

Posts tagged Baseline

Posts about web platform features that include a Baseline status banner that indicate feature availability.

Intl.Segmenter for l10n in JavaScript

Earlier this year, JavaScript Intl.Segmenter gained support in all three major browser engines, meaning it’s achieved Baseline status of “newly available”. Now, your applications can natively retrieve meaningful information from strings in a variety of locales in the latest browsers.

- 6 min read

New exclusive accordions in HTML

Giving the same name to a group of <details> elements makes them behave like exclusive accordions. This is good news for developers who have been writing custom accordions from scratch because it’s soon supported across all major browsers. Let’s explore what this means with some quick examples.

- 5 min read

New JavaScript Set methods

There’s some fresh JavaScript Set features that have just achieved cross-browser support, so let’s have a look at what they can do. Read on if you’re new to Set in JavaScript and you’re curious how to use these new JavaScript methods. I’ll highlight some advantages with basic examples to show why you might reach for these instead of building your own implementations.

- 13 min read

Page Visibility API usage & hints

Checking document visibility gives you insight into how visitors are interacting with your pages and can provide hints about the status of your applications. This post takes a look at what page visibility is, how you can use the Page Visibility API in your websites, and describes pitfalls to avoid if you build features around this functionality.

- 7 min read

JavaScript console methods

Earlier in the year, I wrote about using grep on the MDN Blog for code search under the “developer essential” category. I categorize it this way because I think it will give people unfamiliar with grep a massive productivity boost and exposure to skills like working on the command line and regular expressions. This looks like it’s becoming a series of posts on “essentials” (or what I think are incredibly beneficial skills, at least) for working effectively as a web developer.

- 1 min read

CSS hues with hsl()

After deep-diving into color functions like lab(), lch() and color(), I realized that hue was actually a great topic to update across MDN Web Docs. I am pretty happy with the outcome and there was a lot of interesting findings, updated pages, and new examples that should help beginners get started using hues in CSS.

- 2 min read

CSS color functions and color spaces

In March of this year, I was assigned a Firefox 111 release task to document lab(), lch() and color() functions that were shipping in the stable release. This was an interesting one for me to work on and I learned a lot of new things about color spaces, color science, and plenty about color in CSS.

- 2 min read