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∞ things I didn’t know about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript @ Kod.io 2014

Slides for my talk on random web development fun facts at Kod.io 2014.
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Transcript

  1. @mathias · #kodio_2014 Ten things I didn’t know about HTML

  2. @mathias

  3. Ten things I didn’t know about HTML @mathias · #kodio_2014

  4. ∞ things I didn’t know about HTML, CSS & JavaScript

    @mathias · #kodio_2014

  5. Back to the ’90s kickin’ it old skool

  6. None

  7. Background colors <body bgcolor="pink"></body>

  8. Background colors <body bgcolor="pink"></body>

  9. Background colors <body bgcolor="#ffc0cb"></body>

  10. Background colors <body bgcolor="ffc0cb"></body>

  11. Background colors <body bgcolor="#f3f"></body> " #FF33FF

  12. Background colors <body bgcolor="f3f"></body> " #0F030F

  13. Background colors <body bgcolor="sick"></body> " #00C000

  14. Background colors <body bgcolor="MrT"></body> " #000000

  15. Background colors <body bgcolor="chucknorris"></body> " #C00000

  16. Background colors <body bgcolor="crap"></body> " #C0A000

  17. Background colors <body bgcolor="!"></body> " #000000

  18. Background colors <body bgcolor="kodio"></body> " #00D000

  19. Background colors http://mths.be/bgcolor

  20. Background colors http://mths.be/bgcolor

  21. “Valid HTML” conformance criteria

  22. Document Type Definition

  23. DTD <head> <p>Lorem ipsum.</p> </head>

  24. DTD <kitchensink>

  25. DTD fail <input type="date" placeholder="foo">

  26. DTD fail <input type="date" placeholder="foo"> <table> <tr><td>foo</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">bar</td></tr> </table>

  27. DTD fail <input type="date" placeholder="foo"> → can still be checked

    by a computer <table> <tr><td>foo</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">bar</td></tr> </table>

  28. Computer says no <img src="foo.png" alt=""> <time datetime="2013-10-03">LOL</time> <blockquote>not a

    quote</blockquote>

  29. Computer says no <img src="foo.png" alt=""> → can only be

    checked by a human <time datetime="2013-10-03">LOL</time> <blockquote>not a quote</blockquote>

  30. Take-away Don’t obsess about HTML validation. • not the whole

    story • validators have bugs, too Functionality trumps validation anyway.
 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">

  31. Character references aka. “entities”

  32. Character references <!-- valid and reliable: --> <p>foo &amp; bar</p>

    <!-- renders as “foo & bar” -->

  33. ;

  34. github:twbs/bootstrap#3057

  35. github:twbs/bootstrap#3057

  36. ;

  37. ; PRETENDS TO BE OPTIONAL BREAKS STUFF WHEN OMITTED

  38. Character references <!-- valid and reliable: --> <p>foo &amp; bar</p>

    <!-- renders as “foo & bar” -->

  39. Character references <!-- invalid, but reliable: --> <p>foo &amp bar</p>

    <!-- renders as “foo & bar” -->

  40. Character references <!-- invalid, and confusing: --> <p title="foo&ampbar"> foo&ampbar

    </p> <!-- title renders as “foo&ampbar” --> <!-- text renders as “foo&bar” -->

  41. Character references <!-- valid and reliable: --> <p>foo & bar</p>

    <!-- renders as “foo & bar” --> http://mths.be/bdu

  42. Character references <!-- valid and reliable: --> <p>foo &gt; bar</p>

    <!-- renders as “foo > bar” -->

  43. Character references <!-- invalid, but reliable: --> <p>foo &gt bar</p>

    <!-- renders as “foo > bar” -->

  44. Character references <!-- invalid, and confusing: --> <p title="foo&gtbar"> foo&gtbar

    </p> <!-- title renders as “foo&gtbar” --> <!-- text renders as “foo>bar” -->

  45. Character references <!-- valid and reliable: --> <p>foo > bar</p>

    <!-- renders as “foo > bar” -->

  46. Character references <p>foo&#x85;bar</p> <!-- which symbol is this? --> <!--

    how will it render? -->

  47. Character references <p>foo&#x85;bar</p> <!-- which symbol is this? --> <!--

    how will it render? -->

  48. &#x85; is U+0085, right?

  49. &#x85; is U+0085, right? ✘

  50. Nope, not in HTML!

  51. Nope, not in HTML!

  52. …but it is in XHTML

  53. Character references

  54. Tags

  55. Valid HTML <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>Foo</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 …


    </body>
 </html>

  56. Valid HTML <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>Foo</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 …


    </body>
 </html>

  57. Valid HTML <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>Huh?</title>
 <body>
 …


  58. Valid HTML <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>Huh?</title>
 <body>
 …


  59. Valid HTML <!DOCTYPE html>
 <title>lolwut</title>
 …


  60. None
  61. None

  62. ^ n FTFY

  63. Using CSS without HTML

  64. None
  65. None

  66. CSS without HTML $ curl -i http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/css-without-html HTTP/1.1 200 OK

    Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2013 13:33:37 GMT Link: <css-without-html.css>;rel=stylesheet Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://mths.be/bpe

  67. CSS without HTML $ curl -i http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/css-without-html HTTP/1.1 200 OK

    Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2013 13:33:37 GMT Link: <css-without-html.css>;rel=stylesheet Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://mths.be/bpe
  68. None

  69. Font family names

  70. CSS html {
 font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';
 } “If there’s

    whitespace in the font family name, it must be quoted.”

  71. CSS html {
 font-family: Comic Sans MS;
 } “If there’s

    whitespace in the font family name, it must be quoted.” http://mths.be/bft

  72. CSS html {
 font-family: 456bereastreet;
 }

  73. CSS html {
 font-family: 456bereastreet;
 }

  74. CSS html {
 font-family: \34 56bereastreet;
 }

  75. CSS html {
 font-family: \34 56bereastreet;
 }

  76. CSS html {
 font-family: '456bereastreet';
 }

  77. CSS http://mths.be/bjm

  78. Attribute values

  79. Attribute values <a href="foo">…</a> <style> a[href="foo"] { background: hotpink; }

    </style>

  80. Attribute values <a href=foo>…</a> <style> a[href=foo] { background: hotpink; }

    </style>

  81. Attribute values <a href=foo|bar>…</a> <style> a[href=foo|bar] { background: hotpink; }

    </style>

  82. Attribute values <a href=foo|bar>…</a> <style> a[href=foo|bar] { background: hotpink; }

    </style>

  83. Attribute values <a href=foo|bar>…</a> <style> a[href="foo|bar"] { background: hotpink; }

    </style> http://mths.be/bal

  84. Attribute values http://mths.be/bjn

  85. Handling user input

  86. http://mths.be/bqv

  87. http://mths.be/bqv

  88. Characters in JS

  89. JavaScript string length >> 'A'.length // U+0041 1 >> 'A'

    == '\u0041' true >> 'B'.length // U+0042 1 >> 'B' == '\u0042' true

  90. String length ≠ char count >> 'A'.length // U+1D400 2

    >> 'A' == '\uD835\uDC00' true >> 'B'.length // U+1D401 2 >> 'B' == '\uD835\uDC01' true http://mths.be/bed

  91. Surrogate pairs // for non-BMP code points (> 0xFFFF) function

    getSurrogates(codePoint) { var high = Math.floor((codePoint - 0x10000) / 0x400) + 0xD800; var low = (codePoint - 0x10000) % 0x400 + 0xDC00; return [ high, low ]; } ! function getCodePoint(high, low) { var codePoint = (high - 0xD800) * 0x400 + low - 0xDC00 + 0x10000; return codePoint; } ! >> getSurrogates('A'); // U+1D400 [ 0xD835, 0xDC00 ] >> getCodePoint(0xD835, 0xDC00); 0x1D400 http://mths.be/bed

  92. JS string character count function countSymbols(string) { return punycode.ucs2.decode(string).length; }

    ! >> countSymbols('A') // U+0041 1 >> countSymbols('A') // U+1D400 1 http://mths.be/punycode

  93. JS variable names

  94. Which is invalid? var H ̹̙̦̮͉̩̗̗ ͧ̇̏̊̾ Eͨ͆͒̆ͮ̃ ͏̷̮̣̫̤̣Cͯ̂͐ ͏̨̛͔̦̟͈̻O

    ̜͎͍͙͚̬̝̣ ̽ͮ͐͗̀ͤ̍̀ ͢ M̴̡̲̭͍͇̼̟̯̦ ̉̒͠ Ḛ̛̙̞̪̗ ͥ ͤͩ̾͑̔͐ ͅ Ṯ̴̷̷̗̼͍ ̿̿̓̽͐ H ̙̙ ̔̄ ͜ ; var "_ಠಠ_"; var ໦ϗ îਓƎ ℵೋീΔେ; var ʃː λ ˀπ ᐩᐨᐟᑉᐦᐸᐳ\u200C; var a; http://mths.be/ber

  95. ♥ JS var H ̹̙̦̮͉̩̗̗ ͧ̇̏̊̾ Eͨ͆͒̆ͮ̃ ͏̷̮̣̫̤̣Cͯ̂͐ ͏̨̛͔̦̟͈̻O ̜͎͍͙͚̬̝̣

    ̽ͮ͐͗̀ͤ̍̀ ͢ M̴̡̲̭͍͇̼̟̯̦ ̉̒͠ Ḛ̛̙̞̪̗ ͥ ͤͩ̾͑̔͐ ͅ Ṯ̴̷̷̗̼͍ ̿̿̓̽͐ H ̙̙ ̔̄ ͜ ; // valid var !_ಠಠ_!; // valid var ໦ϗ îਓƎ ℵೋീΔେ; // valid var ʃː λ ˀπ ᐩᐨᐟᑉᐦᐸᐳ\u200C; // valid var a; // syntax error http://mths.be/ber

  96. /^(?!(?:do|if|in|for|let|new|try|var|case|else| enum|eval|false|null|this|true|void|with|break| catch|class|const|super|throw|while|yield|delete| export|import|public|return|static|switch|typeof| default|extends|finally|package|private|continue| debugger|function|arguments|interface|protected| implements|instanceof)$)[$A-Z\_a-z\xaa\xb5\xba \xc0-\xd6\xd8-\xf6\xf8-\u02c1\u02c6-\u02d1\u02e0- \u02e4\u02ec\u02ee\u0370- \u0374\u0376\u0377\u037a-\u037d\u0386\u0388-

    \u038a\u038c\u038e-\u03a1\u03a3-\u03f5\u03f7- \u0481\u048a-\u0527\u0531-\u0556\u0559\u0561- \u0587\u05d0-\u05ea\u05f0-\u05f2\u0620-\u064a

  97. \u20f0\u2cef-\u2cf1\u2d7f\u2de0-\u2dff\u302a- \u302f\u3099\u309a\ua620-\ua629\ua66f\ua674- \ua67d\ua69f\ua6f0\ua6f1\ua802\ua806\ua80b\ua823- \ua827\ua880\ua881\ua8b4-\ua8c4\ua8d0- \ua8d9\ua8e0-\ua8f1\ua900-\ua909\ua926-\ua92d \ua947-\ua953\ua980-\ua983\ua9b3-\ua9c0\ua9d0- \ua9d9\uaa29-\uaa36\uaa43\uaa4c\uaa4d\uaa50- \uaa59\uaa7b\uaab0\uaab2-\uaab4\uaab7\uaab8\uaabe \uaabf\uaac1\uaaeb-\uaaef\uaaf5\uaaf6\uabe3- \uabea\uabec\uabed\uabf0-\uabf9\ufb1e\ufe00-

    \ufe0f\ufe20-\ufe26\ufe33\ufe34\ufe4d-\ufe4f \uff10-\uff19\uff3f]*$/

  98. JS variable names http://mths.be/bjo

  99. Questions? @mathias