Mat has kept busy pretty during his decade and a half of working on the web: from a member of the jQuery Team, to an editor of the HTML specification, to a speaker at conferences like An Event Apart and Smashing, to two-time author for A Book Apart and Google’s web.dev on the topics of images and JavaScript.
As an independent consultant, Mat’s goal is to ensure that meaningful, well-structured content can reach users in any browsing context—regardless of the size of their screen, the speed of their internet connection, age of their device, or the combination of browsers and assistive technologies they use to experience the web.
Mat Marquis has waited 14 years to write this article. The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on the web.
Mat Marquis has broken into Piccalilli towers and found The Index posting machine while everyone is distracted. Join him as he shares some very good links with you in The Index #165.
There’s some very useful capabilities coming to JavaScript: “[Symbol.dispose]()” and “using”. Mat Marquis is here to explain why they’re coming and how to use them effectively.
Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript date system.
We're pretty aware, generally that JavaScript is weird, but did you know Not-A-Number (NaN) is a type of number? Mat Marquis walks us through why that is and how to deal with NaN well in your codebases.
