Web Components have taken longer than any of us would like to emerge as viable alternatives to proprietary systems that lock teams into choices they can't revisit as necessary, but that day is now here, and it couldn't come at a more appropos point in the arc of mobile's growth.
Web Components Are Not the Future
A few years ago I wrote an article suggesting that Web Components might not be the most beneficial...
Web components are okay
Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a…
Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first, so photosynthesis is no longer asymmetric. It is symmetric competition.
Making the Jump: How Desktop-Era Frameworks Can Thrive on Mobile
How do tools that grew up on the desktop, like Ember, Angular and React, make the jump to the mobile future?
Use web components for what they’re good at
Dave Rupert recently made a bit of a stir with his post “If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?”. I’ve been working with web components for a…
Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile - The Intercom Blog
Proclamations of an all-native mobile app world ignore the fact that browsers and the web are fast becoming the mobile operating system of the future.
Swift 6.2 WebAssembly Revolution: Redefining Platform Boundaries
The mobile development landscape has witnessed numerous paradigm shifts, but few have been as...
Reckoning: Frontend's Lost Decade | Alex Russell | performance.now() 2024
The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com
A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.
WebAssembly’s post-MVP future: A cartoon skill tree – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
People have a misconception—they think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—is the final version. In fact, we still have many use cases to unlock, from heavy-weight ...
Web Platform: What are we working on?
Web Platform What are we working on? Simone Onofri WebEngineHackFest 2025
FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
FlyWeb is an experimental project we’ve been prototyping from within the depths of Mozilla’s platform division. It started as a side-project late last year, and since then a small, ad-hoc ...
Why You Should Pay Attention to WebAssembly
There may come a day when the humble web browser – having already yielded enterprise grade server side technologies like Firecracker, Isolates and Node.js – has nothing of interest left for the industry to extract. But that day has certainly not arrived yet, as the increasing chatter around WebAssembly (WASM) proves. The fact that people
WebAssembly Browser Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Since the last WebAssembly milestone we reached in March, we’ve been hard at work in the WebAssembly Community Group to define a standard and to implement that standard in our ...
Object-Oriented UX
We know big, monolithic webpages won’t meet the needs of responsive sites and endless screens. But we’re often still quilting together design patterns and content modules, rather than truly thinkin…
Minimum Viable Infrastructure
Minimum Viable Infrastructure Innovation often emerges not solely from brilliant ideas but from the infrastructure readiness that makes those ideas viable. Consider the progression of mobile consumer internet applications over the past two decades: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok. Their lau...
