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Issue with css variables and button background styling
This little doozey hit me, so I'm documenting incase anyone else has the same issue
Hello. I am Paul Kinlan.
I lead the Chrome and the Open Web Developer Relations team at Google. Exploring the intersection of modern web design and future-facing technologies.
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Creating a share button web component
My adventures in creating resuable web components around sharing.
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Detecting text in an image on the web in real-time
I'm excited to share the latest addition to the Shape Detection API: the Text Detection API! This API allows you to detect text within images in real-time, right in the browser. It's still experimental and currently works on Chrome Canary for Android, but it opens up amazing possibilities. Imagine real-time translation, assistive technologies for parsing image content, or even grabbing URLs from slides at conferences. I've built a demo where the API detects text, draws a box around it, and reads it aloud when clicked. Check out the code and demo to experiment yourself. I can't wait to see what you build with this!
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How should we load web components?
I'm exploring the best way to load web components, focusing on how to include styles and templates without creating uncontrolled blocking requests. I've experimented with using a single JavaScript file that encapsulates everything, including styles and a dynamically created template element. This approach avoids external requests but raises questions about extensibility and best practices. Should we revive HTML imports, embrace ES modules, or find a common model for handling templates and styles? Is inlining templates a reasonable solution? I'm looking for community input on how to balance performance and developer experience when deploying web components.
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3 predictions for the web and platforms in 2017
Following on from my list of the things that I am [excited about on the web in 2017](/2017-exciting-times/) here are three predictions of things that I think will happen in 2017 based off reading tea-leaves and random musings of things that I have 0 direct knowledge of but I might do if I was 'them'.
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Exciting times: 2017 and the web
There are lots of things happening on the web, and this is just a small list of what excites me.
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Whither Flash. Now what?
It's the end of the road for Flash and plugins on the web, what do we do now on the web?
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Experimenting with Cloud Functions for use in Web Push
This blog post describes an experiment using Google Cloud Functions to handle web push notifications for services that don't natively support them. I needed a way to process incoming webhooks from various sources like Travis CI and GitHub, transform their payloads into a consistent format for web push, and ensure the system could scale and remain isolated. Google Cloud Functions provided a serverless solution, allowing me to create separate functions for each webhook source. The front-end receives the webhook, pushes the data to a designated Pub/Sub queue, and the corresponding cloud function processes the message and publishes the transformed data to another queue for sending the web push notification. This setup allows for flexibility, scalability, and isolation, fulfilling all my initial requirements.
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2016: Chrome and Web Developer Relations year in review
Thoughts on the year on the web for our team