Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Issue with css variables and button background styling

Paul Kinlan

This little doozey hit me, so I'm documenting incase anyone else has the same issue

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Creating a share button web component

Paul Kinlan

My adventures in creating resuable web components around sharing.

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Shadow DOM and Progressive Enhancement to create a Sharing component

Paul Kinlan

I explored building a progressively enhanced sharing web component using Shadow DOM. My focus was on URL visibility and manipulation within web apps, even when they behave like native applications. The component is designed to be customizable and work across browsers, with or without JavaScript, by leveraging existing elements like anchor tags. It uses a Twitter intent as a fallback sharing mechanism when Web Components aren't supported. I'm excited about the potential of web components, even without widespread custom element support.

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