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V8

V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++. It is used in Chrome and in Node.js, among others. It implements ECMAScript and WebAssembly, and runs on Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.12+, and Linux systems that use x64, IA-32, ARM, or MIPS processors. V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

SpiderMonkey

SpiderMonkey is Mozilla’s JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine, used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects. It is written in C++, Rust and JavaScript. You can embed it into C++ and Rust projects, and it can be run as a stand-alone shell. It can also be [compiled](https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/making-javascript-run-fast-on

Deobfuscating / Unminifying Obfuscated Web App / JavaScript Code

Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

...and obviously we're building a workaround. But I'm absolutely flabbergasted that a standard <input type="date"> HTML field, in a standard browser, from a company that bases its reputation good design, could be so dreadful.

The context

I'm the developer for a startup that sells a genetic test to recommend medications for high blood pressure. For medical reasons we need to know our customers' birth date. Most of our customers are in their 60s or older. We've found that many of them use iPads or iPhones. And they're the ones who complain to our customer support that our site is unusable.

The problem

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

I've been deceiving you all. I had you believe that Svelte was a UI framework — unlike React and Vue etc, because it shifts work out of the client and into the compiler, but a framework nonetheless.

But that's not exactly accurate. In my defense, I didn't realise it myself until very recently. But with Svelte 3 around the corner, it's time to come clean about what Svelte really is.

Svelte is a language.

Specifically, Svelte is an attempt to answer a question that many people have asked, and a few have answered: what would it look like if we had a language for describing reactive user interfaces?

A few projects that have answered this question:

Improved .visually-hidden

Theorically bulletproof CSS class for visually hide anything and keep it accessible to ATs.

A Pen by ffoodd on CodePen.

License.

The issue:

..mobile browsers will wait approximately 300ms from the time that you tap the button to fire the click event. The reason for this is that the browser is waiting to see if you are actually performing a double tap.

(from a new defunct https://developers.google.com/mobile/articles/fast_buttons article)

touch-action CSS property can be used to disable this behaviour.

touch-action: manipulation The user agent may consider touches that begin on the element only for the purposes of scrolling and continuous zooming. Any additional behaviors supported by auto are out of scope for this specification.

@kangax's ES6 quiz, explained

@kangax created a new interesting quiz, this time devoted to ES6 (aka ES2015). I found this quiz very interesting and quite hard (made myself 3 mistakes on first pass).

Here we go with the explanations:

Question 1:

(function(x, f = () =&gt; x) {

	/*
	Made by Elly Loel - https://ellyloel.com/
	With inspiration from:
	- Josh W Comeau - https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/css-for-js/treasure-trove/010-global-styles/
	- Andy Bell - https://piccalil.li/blog/a-modern-css-reset/
	- Adam Argyle - https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/normalize.min.css / https://codepen.io/argyleink/pen/KKvRORE

	Notes:
	- `:where()` is used to lower specificity for easy overriding.
	*/


	// when T is any\|unknown, Y is returned, otherwise N
	type IsAnyUnknown<T, Y, N> = unknown extends T ? Y : N;

	// when T is never, Y is returned, otherwise N
	type IsNever<T, Y = true, N = false> = [T] extends [never] ? Y : N;

	// when T is a tuple, Y is returned, otherwise N
	// valid tuples = [string], [string, boolean],
	// invalid tuples = [], string[], (string \| number)[]