In The Shadow, In The Light: DSD is Here

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:

• 30th anniversary of licensing the web for general use and at no cost
• Comments by Coralie Mercer of the W3C
• Declarative Shadow DOM (WebKit blog)
• Declarative Shadow DOM (Chrome blog)

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:17 Happy Birthday, Open Web!
• 10:49 No longer lurking in the shadows…DSD is here!
• 13:37 The history of shadow DOM
• 17:06 Pendulum swing back to server-side rendering
• 22:32 Use cases for shadow DOM techniques
• 28:42 Yay for progressive enhancement and readable HTML
• 30:13 Mini rant about React et al. =)
• 35:04 DSD-oriented frameworks are coming…
• 38:42 How to deal with shared or global CSS
• 47:40 You can never go wrong learning vanilla specs!
• 49:27 Outro