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Edwin Martins
Edwin Martin is a frontend web developer living in the Netherlands.
August 2026
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Web components is a W3C web standard that allows you, simply put, to create your own HTML tags. Adding a map to your web page can be as simple as adding this tag: <g-map latitude="52.3812258" longitude="4.9001255"></g-map> With web components, you can work in a component-based way without…
This summer, I’ve been working on updating my Game of Life site. I looked at several JavaScript frameworks, but was not satisfied with the performance of any of them. I could’ve used my own miq lilbrary, but that mimicks the jQuery API too much. When you write in native DOM, you probably use…
In HTML and JavaScript, you can easily apply some styling with the style attribute or property. But if you just want to pass a value, like a color, style falls short. Fortunately, there is a solution for this, which has now been adopted by all modern browsers: CSS Custom Properties for Cascading…
Before the year 2000, people who made websites did it all: designing, programming, deployment, SEO et cetera. It didn’t take long to figure out that programmers weren’t great designers and designers weren’t great programmers. Some people where great at both, but they where rare and a statistical…
With HTML, CSS and JavaScript, it’s not prescribed how to format your code. Everything on one line or not, lots of spaces, tabs or everything packed together, for the computer it doesn’t really matter. The result is that everybody will develop its own style. On itself, that isn’t bad, but when…
A while ago I was working on several websites in a Vagrant container. The problem was that we couldn’t test the sites on mobile devices. The IP address of the Vagrant box was known inside my computer, but not outside, on other devices. I could use a proxy like Squid, but it was too big, had to be…
A nice way to let visitors of your website know about your twitter feed, is to show your latest tweet. Fortunately, Twitter provides several means to do this. One is the Twitter Widget. Aside from changing some colours, you can’t change much of the layout. The second is the Twitter REST API, which…
Today I released miq, a tiny jQuery like library. Since the first release of jQuery a lot has changed: lots of array functions, promises, querySelectorAll, CSS transformations… and jQuery can only partially use them because the makers want to keep it backwards compatible. I created miq to combine…
On January 12th, 2016, Microsoft stopped supporting Internet Explorer 9 and 10. As a webdeveloper, it might be time to stop supporting IE9 and IE10 too. At the time of writing, in January 2016, the worldwide market share of IE9 and IE10 is less than 1.3% for each browser. Check the statistics from…
“The saddest thing of being a frontend developer is getting designs that could’ve been for print. Every time.” When I started making websites in 1994, all designs I got could just as well been used for print. Okay, there where some buttons and a form, but that’s as far as it got regarding…
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