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In The Shadow, In The Light: DSD is Here

May 23, 2023 Jared White & Ayush Newatia Episode 2
In The Shadow, In The Light: DSD is Here
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In The Shadow, In The Light: DSD is Here
May 23, 2023 Episode 2
Jared White & Ayush Newatia

Not just a great Enigma song, shadow and light is the theme today as we dive deep into an exciting new frontend web specification: Declarative Shadow DOM (DSD). Having just landed in Safari as well as Chrome (crossing our fingers for Firefox support soon!), DSD has the potential to transform how we build UI for the web. We also take the opportunity in this episode to wish the World-Wide Web a happy birthday, which was gifted to the public 30 years ago, and to touch on some of the highlights as well as the perils of having a global information network.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush

Show Notes:

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Not just a great Enigma song, shadow and light is the theme today as we dive deep into an exciting new frontend web specification: Declarative Shadow DOM (DSD). Having just landed in Safari as well as Chrome (crossing our fingers for Firefox support soon!), DSD has the potential to transform how we build UI for the web. We also take the opportunity in this episode to wish the World-Wide Web a happy birthday, which was gifted to the public 30 years ago, and to touch on some of the highlights as well as the perils of having a global information network.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush

Show Notes:

Introduction
Happy Birthday, Open Web!
No longer lurking in the shadows…DSD is here!
The history of shadow DOM
Pendulum swing back to server-side rendering
Use cases for shadow DOM techniques
Yay for progressive enhancement and readable HTML
Mini rant about React et al. =)
DSD-oriented frameworks are coming…
How to deal with shared or global CSS
You can never go wrong learning vanilla specs!
Outro