#Web Components

#Web Components

As CSS patterns go these days this one is delightfully low-tech, but in my work I've seen it have an outsized impact in ensuring usable experiences for increasingly-heavy websites when network or device conditions aren't ideal. This notion of delivering "optimistically" while planning for failure is something I've written about before, but the set-it-and-forget-it nature of this latest stab at it makes it my favorite yet.

Earlier this week, I took a look at parsing electronic comic books and sending them to GenAI as a way to get summaries of stories. That was a fun experiment and it actually worked quite well. I thought I'd take a stab at trying a similar approach with Chrome's Built-in AI support as well when I discovered that... wait... I don't actually have a way to view comics on the web. Or so I thought.

KelpUI is being designed to leverage modern CSS features and Web Components, while emphasizing utility, customizability, and simplicity in naming and specificity.