What actually happens when you use a CSS transform
'transform' is a powerful CSS attribute and we're all told we should use it "for performance". But why? I'm going to find out.
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I'm Alastair, a software engineer/developer that has spent over a decade working in the news industry. This is a blog where I (very irregularly) post odd and interesting things I've stumbled across in the course of my work. Read more on my about page or dive into my posts:
Getting WKWebView to treat a WKURLSchemeHandler as secure
The bad news upfront: you can't do this in an app you're going to submit to the App Store because it involves using a private API. But I thought it was interesting nonetheless. In short: iOS's webview, WKWebView, allows you create a "custom
Read moreTo JSC or not to JSC: running JavaScript on iOS in 2020
Did you know that iOS comes with a JavaScript engine bundled into the OS? JavaScriptCore (JSC) is the same engine used inside Safari, wrapped in a very interesting API that lets you mix JavaScript and native values together. Most importantly, when it was introduced in iOS 7 it was also
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