Hi there! I’m Mathias, a web standards enthusiast from Belgium. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Unicode, performance, and security get me excited. You can follow me on Twitter and GitHub.
ES6 updates the grammar for identifiers. This affects a number of things, but most importantly, identifiers can be used as variable names, and identifier names are valid unquoted property names. This post describes the observable changes compared to the old ES5 behavior.
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This article explains the effects of the new u flag for regular expressions in ES6.
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By default, composing a new email in Gmail results in an HTML email under the hood. It’s possible to opt-out of that and use plain text email instead, but that leads to some problems.
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It’s trivial to find colliding passwords when hashing with PBKDF2-HMAC-anything. This post explains why that is.
The way JavaScript handles Unicode is… surprising, to say the least. This write-up explains the pain points associated with Unicode in JavaScript, provides solutions for common problems, and explains how the ECMAScript 6 standard improves the situation.