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Am I finally going back and publishing my backlog of web components to my web site? Yes, yes I am. Here’s another:

<squirm-inal>

A heavy-handed portmanteau of squirmy and terminal. This one progressively reveals any arbitrary HTML content.

https://www.zachleat.com/web/squirminal/

And a lesson on when server rendering is not optimal, actually 😅😅😅

Also posted to Bluesky.

12 replies

Robb Knightmare Mastodon 37 min later

@zachleat I’ve been using this for a while and it looks fantastic https://echo.rknight.me
1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 39 min later
  
  @robb Awesome! I’ll link that from the blog post!
Matt Fantinel Mastodon 1 hr later

@zachleat you mentioned it works with JavaScript, but not in web component form, right? With JS disabled it doesn't load anything, unfortunately. That's the main thing stopping me from going all-in on web components right now, and I'm not sure if it's “fixable”
1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later
  
  @fantinel a couple of muddled terms there, but this is what it looks like on the demo without JS (it just shows the content).
  1. Matt Fantinel Mastodon 1 hr later
    
    @zachleat oh sweet! I think I had opened the "Queued Code" page instead 🤦‍♂️
    This is nice! Am I right in assuming that the web component isn't loading at all and is just behaving like a container div?
    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later
      
      @fantinel correct!
    2. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later
      
      @fantinel you’re right that the queuecode demo doesn’t work without JS 😭—although I think that’s a bug and not a technical limitation
      1. Matt Fantinel Mastodon 4 hr later
        
        @zachleat whatever it was, seems you fixed it! 🎉
Eric Portis Mastodon 1 hr later

@zachleat First I read this as "Squirm–I Am Not A Lawyer" but now I see my mistake, it's actually a portmanteau of "Squirm Criminal"
1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later
  
  @eeeps 1337 h4x0rs commit smooth criminal terminal crimes
  1. Eric Portis Mastodon 2 hr later
    
    @zachleat
    You've been `banner`ed
    You've been `cowsay`ed
    By a squirmy terminal
    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 2 hr later
      
      @eeeps this will be in my head all day now thank you