Scott Jehl

I'm very excited to return to Performance.Now() Conference in Amsterdam this November 19-20. I'll be giving a talk about recent work to bring HTML video lazy-loading to today's browsers, ongoing work to standardize a new HTML poster element (which will make video poster images responsive AND accessible), prior work to re-standardize and revive responsive HTML video, and perhaps more broadly a little about how I've fallen into doing this kind of work. You should go too! Get your tickets before…

A couple of years ago, having just finished some work to help de-extinct responsive HTML video, I posted a short list of related improvements that I hoped to see next, each paired with tickets filed against the HTML standard. That list went untouched until last fall when a few Squarespace coworkers joined me to take one of them on as a Hack Week project, which went well enough that the company supported our work to finish the job. That work, standardizing and implementing HTML video…

Over the long, rainy weekend here in NYC, I made DollarSlice.nyc from a variety of materials: pencil & paper, Procreate’s brush tool, Figma for drawing the vector lines, static HTML, some lucky doughy font discoveries, free buoy data from NOAA, 11ty. It’s been a delight to put together, and it’s certainly not finished, but I’m happy with it so far—and with making stuff like this, just in general. The increasing presence of all-things-artificial has spurred an ironic creative period for me. I’ve…