For upcoming blog, @npub1es9e...9npy's latest in flow-chart form:

Mu-An Chiou

JavaScript dos and donts @ Mu-An Chiou

Do When the core functionality of a feature cannot function with only HTML. When the core functionality of a feature can benefit from some JavaScr...

"The framework isn't the problem!" is something I've been hearing the apologists for lemon vendors spout for going on a decade now, and I think we need to decapitate this zombie idea once and for all. First, *I know* that 45KB of JS isn't going to break the bank. Duh. That's not the point. The point is that the apologists *don't even have budgets*. Which means that *every* increment above zero is *a priori* too much! Folks that can't say "when" aren't sophisticated enough to be using JS.

This, by @npub1es9e...9npy , should be on every wall in every tech office:

Mu-An Chiou

JavaScript dos and donts @ Mu-An Chiou

Do When the core functionality of a feature cannot function with only HTML. When the core functionality of a feature can benefit from some JavaScr...

A brief work interlude: we're hiring a lead Web Platform PM! A chance to work closely with Edge's platform (and Chromium) team in a strategic role, working closely with me and other PM leads:

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*All* of this is JS-optional, progressively enhanced HTML. All of it.

Hachyderm.io

Joe Lanman (@joelanman@hachyderm.io)

so with the GOV.UK platform you can now: - send emails, texts and letters - take payment, including recurring card payments - make accessible in...

Platforms are competitions, and the web is losing. We need to do a very concrete, relatively easy set of things to claw our way back. So why aren't we? A consolidated thread from last week:

Infrequently Noted

Platform Strategy and Its Discontents - Infrequently Noted

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.