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I love it that the Chrome browser now automatically creates relevant Favicons for these one-page-tools, helps identifying them in my browser with 21 open Tabs.

> Congratulations! For me, yes I had a Web Components course scheduled for this summer, but sailing and riding the Honda Transalp takes time, so I postponed it to early 2027 But... That Web Components Quest is a hobby now...

Nee, .man is geen top level domain .quest wel 😇

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No, Eternity is waiting for Apple to support Customized Built-In Elements. Earlier this year I retired after 36 years in the Internet business, feels like yesterday I UUdecoded that first executable file in my Email in 1990 Web Components is now my hobby

> the only trade is slightly longer selectors Depends, In my course code the selectors (for CSS on Undefined Custom Elements) are shorter. AND the HTML is shorter and better readable. no more searching for that </closing DIV>

> i’ve wanted to do this in my systems for ages! Not ages, Applying CSS to Undefined Custom Celements (which are NOT HTMLUnknownElement even if AI claims so) has been possible since: ✅️ 2016 - Chrome ✅️ 2017 - Safari ✅️ 2018 - FireFox ✅️ 2020 - Edge (when they switched to Chromium)

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> I did end up creating my own framework, transclude But what is your intention? Do you want to use it yourself, then why did you publish it? Or do you want to be a depencendy for others and vow to support Transclude?

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Learn to ignore the slop. I don’t like Botox faces and inflated lips. I can get annoyed every time I see one—or simply look elsewhere. AI will produce mountains of slop. You don’t have to consume or fight it. Learn to filter. Ignore the junk. Spend your attention on what’s worth it.

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It’s not going down the drain. It’s being condensed Stack Overflow usage dropped to almost zero Yet ask a Web Components or topic X question, and you GET an answer. It still works fine The Web was similar mid 90s: suddenly every [beep] was making lousy webpages. Until we learned to create pages

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I am retired, if the sun shines on wednesday I only work on monday, tuesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 15/09/2026

Not worried My parents taught typing. The industry feared computers. They bought computers Some have vision. Most don’t A disk virus hit our PCs in 1990 We still connected to the Internet that year AI is fire We didn’t stop using fire. We learned to control it—and still haven’t mastered it

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FYI In Chrome 152 there is a custom-element pill available in DEV-tools Elements If it is a *defined* Custom Element/Web Component a click takes you to the JavaScript source code For a *undefined* Custom Element the pill is still displayed but nothing happens FireFox did this since 2018 Safari?

Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 15/09/2026

You’re right. UNDEFINED might be better. UNDEFINED Custom Elements are UNDERestimated. Time they got PROPER attention!

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 13/09/2026

85 years ago today, Ed Roberts was born Ed who? The guy whose Altair 8800 ignited the PC revolution 𝙞𝙣 1975 I wanted to explain Web Components with <𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙚-𝙨𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝> 𝙖𝙣𝙙 <𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮-𝙗𝙞𝙩> Then Claude built the whole damn Altair I only tweaked it… 𝙖 𝙗𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙧 𝙗𝙮𝙩𝙚.. or more the-altair-8800.github.io

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The Altair 8800

Experience the computer that helped ignite the personal computer revolution.

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 11/09/2026

We know our history. The Netherlands went through a Hunger-Winter in 44/45 Half of the country was starving. The Americans wanted to go to Berlin fast and after the fights in Belgium headed east. The Netherlands was not of importance to them. Canadian and Polish brigades liberated The Netherlands

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 10/09/2026

𝘖𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘥! 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 <𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬>!

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 09/09/2026

> Still better than the ambiguous "web components" i.e. "components in the web". WWW - Wacky Web Widgets?

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 09/09/2026

We got :defined when Custom Elements where implemented. Chromium (2016) Safari (2017) FireFox (2018) to make the distinction between UNdefined Custom Elements (any <tag-name> with a hyphen) and Defined Custom Elements (when the Custom Elements API was called) BOTH are valid HTMLElement, can be used.

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 08/09/2026

Or since its Star-Trek anniversary day James Tiberius Kirk on AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Erk...

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Captain Kirk on Risk

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 08/09/2026

The CEO of Macromedia taught me a valuable lesson 30 years ago: "Danny, there is an end to every product lifecycle" Or as I referenced in my <playing-card> Web Component cardmeister.github.io www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4...

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Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 08/09/2026

> start calling them "custom elements" all the time. That's is like calling everyone Joe. * shadowDOM attached to a <div> is *not* using Custom Elements * Customized Built-In Elements are *not* Custom Elements Only tags with a hyphen *are* Custom Elements (even without using JavaScript)

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 04/09/2026

Yes, I have BaseClasses etc. too And I did steal from Lit But the moment you publish it for someone else to use *you* become the dependency Most public repos out there have unmaintained code, because the developer lost attention and learned a new trick And it is all being read by AI... to learn

Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 04/09/2026

> Have you ever seen one that ticks all of your boxes? No. After 36 years in this Internet business I have seen soo many technologies come and go. I now stick to native code "Robin Hood" style only, absolutely no JavaScript dependencies. I steal code from the feature rich, and add it to the poor.

Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 04/09/2026

I did a 100% free source <event-count> many moons ago event-count.github.io but with 1346 Gzipped Bytes this 100% native Web Component isn't as fancy as your 6486 Gzipped Bytes (AI generated?) version ... or is it? PS. How can you claim "No deps", when it requires Web Awesome?

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 03/09/2026

SI correct notation: kb means kilo bits, kB means kilo Bytes Maybe a good thing this company nvidia isn't doing anything serious with calculated values.

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 01/09/2026

Many native Elements are Web Components with shadowDOM Here is the "closed" <video> DOM in Chromium and FireFox I presume the "closed" option for us mortal developers is a relic of these earlier developments Hardly serves a purpose if you can download the source and just do a replace to "open"

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 01/09/2026

Note, both your FOUC links at the start of your latest FOUC blog goto a 404 page because you added a .md extension to the link

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 01/09/2026

:𝘯𝘰𝘵(:𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥) { 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯; } is only a "solution" if you own ALL Web Components in the page. if another developer purposely put a UNdefined Custom Element in that page... it will never show because it is not :defined

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 31/08/2026

I thought I had none. But I have found one "closed" component in my course. In an AI generated Web Component I did not review.

Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 29/08/2026

very simply put; Haptotherapy says: feel the pain Sarno says: ignore the pain Yes, life can throw you some serious mental curveballs. Apparently, I’ve swallowed enough lithium in my bipolar lifetime to make about 1,200 phone batteries 🔋😳 Found a dutch site in english: haptotherapy.com

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Haptotherapy | The Art of Feeling | Roel Klaassen | Haptonomy and Haptotherapy

Discover haptotherapy and The Art of Feeling with Roel Klaassen. Explore how feeling, thinking and bodily experience can help us live, connect and perform without losing ourselves.

After 20 years of hammering away at a keyboard, I got the same “it’s your job, quit” advice 25 years ago Physio focused on *where* it hurt Haptotherapy (a Dutch term, look for: body psychotherapy/somatic therapy) taught me *when and why* I was tensing up, how to handle the pain and live with it

> visitors only see the UI if they have JavaScript enabled They see *ALL* Custom Elements and CSS, just not JS GENERATED content 0.5% of browsers do not run JS, like the old phones in India 65% of users can NOT read English Now what users are you targetting your site with Web Components at?

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Different implementation in FireFox. enable: Show Browser shadow DOM in F12 > F1 settings

<video> is built with Web Components technology many moons before the technology was made available to us mortal developers. It has shadowDOM and HTML content us mortals can not access, like a mode:"closed" Web Component. Take a peek inside and you will see each vendor implemented it different.

Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 25/08/2026

Ask a React question, and you get 1000 opinions

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 25/08/2026

Why do Web Components/Custom Elements need a spotlight? Its standard technology What does it matter if 1000 devs use that technology or 1 million devs? Ask a question on BlueSky/StackOverflow and you get a decent correct answer, and you can do your job There is no value in getting 1000 answers

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 24/08/2026

Its not Lit that make Custom Elements terrific. native Custom Elements are terrific by themselves, Lit is just sugar that saves you work, like jQuery once was for front-end development. But I am biased, only done native Web Components for the past 10 years.

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Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 23/08/2026

Cool... although, "widely" means it has been available for 30 months that is 2,5 years Who waits 2,5 years before using a technology? If I had waited 2,5 years after learning about HTML ...

Danny Engelman 🌷🏍️🛥️ @engelman.nl · 22/08/2026

<i-❤️-web-components></i-❤️-web-components> A valid Custom Element name