I’ve been a fan of Tejas’ podcast since he started it. He is an extremely gracious host that asks interesting questions and brings out the best in the people he has on. I was thrilled when he asked me to record an episode with him.
I was invited to the JS Party podcast to talk about all things Polypane, from the business side of things to nitty-gritty features that I’ve been working on. I had a lot of fun and I think Nick and Jerod did as well.
As someone building a browser I need to parse a lot of URLs. Partially to validate them, but also to normalize them or get specific parts out of the URL. The URL API in browsers lets you do that, but it’s ergonomics aren’t ideal.
Yesterday on Mastodon we had a short discussion about the (terribly named) overflow media feature. Because it has the same name as a CSS property it’s easy to think it has more power than it really does. Underlying that is the issue that your page can’t change the value of a media feature: media features say something about the medium: the device, browser or user preferences.