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# Importing vs fetching JSON
Posted 22 October 2025

They behave differently, so make sure you pick the right one.

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# The present and potential future of progressive image rendering
Posted 15 October 2025

Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.

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# Fetch streams are great, but not for measuring upload/download progress
Posted 15 September 2025

They're inaccurate, and there are better ways.

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# Making XML human-readable without XSLT
Posted 02 September 2025

JavaScript is right there.

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# Give footnotes the boot
Posted 01 July 2025

I hate footnotes, and hopefully by the end of this, you will too.

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# Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes
Posted 17 June 2025

How to get the right transform animation.

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# Firefox + custom elements + iframes bug
Posted 14 February 2025

A tricksy Firefox bug and how to work around it.

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# How should <selectedoption> work?
Posted 18 October 2024

It's part of the new customisable `<select>`, but there are some tricky details.

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# Video with alpha transparency on the web
Posted 05 August 2024

It's better to do it yourself.

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# Garbage collection and closures
Posted 30 July 2024

GC within a function doesn't work how I expected

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Hello, I'm Jake and that's me there. The one that isn't a cat. I'm a developer of sorts, working on Firefox.

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