Dave Rupert recently made a bit of a stir with his post “If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?” . I’ve been working with web components for a few years now, so I thought I’d weigh in on this. At the risk of giving the most senior-engineer-y “It depends” answer ever: I think web components have strengths and weaknesses, and you have to understand the tradeoffs before deciding when to use them....
Image: Google wants to remove bots from the web, but the technical community says its approach is “completely unethical" A working draft specification for a new browser API from Google has raised outcry from the technical community about ethics, trust and adding DRM to the internet. The Web Environment Integrity API (WEI) is not a heavily promoted project - the documentation is only hosted on an employee’s personal Github account , rather than an official repo - but there are signs that Google is actively working to build the feature into Chrome now....