Inline rendering with document.currentScript

A tutorial on using document.currentScript to render small bits of dynamic content inline in plain HTML without IDs, classes, querySelectors, or a templating engine, with real-world examples like random greetings and auto-updating footers, plus the catch around synchronous helper scripts.

Tutorial · Web Development · Programming · Tutorials

Website footers are (literally) bigger than ever. Here's why

Elizabeth Goodspeed on The Big Footer™: full-viewport logos at the bottom of sites, how print/fashion logo culture and better screens revived ornate marks, and why footers became the unexpected stage for brand recognition.

Blog post · Design · Web Development · User Experience

RSS Feed Best Practices

Kevin Cox's technical checklist for publishing a blog feed: pick RSS 2 or Atom, serve the right content type, use absolute URLs, discovery tags, HTTPS, full content, stable entry IDs, caching and conditional requests, and sensible pagination.

Tutorial · Web Development · Writing · Tutorials

Rendering untrusted HTML email, safely

Close's Phil Freo explains how the sales CRM renders synced, untrusted HTML email safely inside its single-page app entirely on the client side, comparing server-side sanitizing and other approaches to the sandboxed iframe technique it uses, along with handling iframe height and a secure WYSIWYG editor for composing.

Blog post · Security · Web Development · Email · Frontend