The first draft of the service worker spec was published today! It's been a collaborative effort between Google, Samsung, Mozilla and others, and implementations for Chrome and Firefox are being actively developed. Anyone interesting in the web competing with native apps should be excited by this.

iOS has hidden the pathname of URLs for some time now, but recently Chrome Canary introduced something similar behind a flag.

I'm not involved in the development of Chrome experiment at all, but I've got more than 140 characters worth of opinion on it…

If you set an element to display: none the browser ignores all of its children, if a child sets itself to display: block it will remain hidden. This isn't true of visibility.

They're brilliant. They're brilliant and I want laws changed so I can marry them.

When I first started working with promises I had the overly simplistic view that passing a value into reject would mark the promise as "failed", and passing a value into resolve would mark it as "successful". However, the latter isn't always true.

Jake, why are your blog posts always so depressing?

— Domenic Denicola (@domenic)

Well, I wouldn't want to disappoint…

When I was building this blog I tried to use flexbox for the overall page layout because I wanted to look cool and modern in front of my peers. However, like all of my other attempts to look cool and modern, it didn't really work.

Progressive enhancement has become a bit of a hot topic recently, most recently with Tom Dale conclusively showing it to be a futile act, but only by misrepresenting what progressive enhancement is and what its benefits are.

Let's look at the real-world benefit of progressive enhancement.

Did you know that this works in every browser?

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