A considered collection of notes on code, design, and the details of a better web.https://melin.vercel.app/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-17/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-17/Two JavaScript loops walk into ChinaJoy. Only one gets the photography job. By zhangxinxu · Original article Adapted for Medium, with updated technical explanations and a compan...Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-16/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-16/Small formatting fixes can make everyday forms feel much more thoughtful. Based on the original article by zhangxinxu, with an additional walkthrough of the supplied event demo....Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-13/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-13/Copy an image, press Ctrl+V or Command+V, and let the browser handle the rest. By zhangxinxu , adapted from the original article. Original publication note: Full reproduction re...Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-12/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-12/A front-end survival guide to drag data, drop effects, and the events that connect them. By zhangxinxu Adapted from the original article, with a companion demo using CustomEvent...Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-11/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-11/Turn abrupt jumps into gentle transitions—and give your interfaces a little personality. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article, with updated technical notes and excerpts fr...Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-10/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-10/By zhangxinxu. Adapted from the original article. Changing a color in JavaScript does not require rewriting every CSS declaration that uses it. With CSS custom properties, you c...Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-09/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-09/Keep images, controls, and small interactive interfaces visible while users work elsewhere. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article, with practical examples from the supplied...Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-08/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-08/titleThu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-08-picture-in-picture-for-html5-video-a-small-window-with-a-simple-/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-08-picture-in-picture-for-html5-video-a-small-window-with-a-simple-/Keep a video in view while you browse, read, or write code. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article, with practical examples from the supplied companion demo. You’re watching...Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-07/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-07/Turn an audio file into an interactive waveform—and give your interface a simple way to report what’s happening. By zhangxinxu , adapted from the original article. Original repr...Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-06/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-06/Fan Group JS Basics Quiz #27: Written Q&A By zhangxinxu Adapted from the original article, with practical examples from the accompanying browser demo. Original republication not...Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-05/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-05/Where to listen, which measurements to read, and why the document behaves differently from an ordinary element. By zhangxinxu · Original article Adapted for Medium, with current...Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-04/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-04/A clearer way to find the page’s scrolling element—and put it to work. By zhangxinxu · Original article Reproduction notice: Personal websites may reproduce the original article...Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-03/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-03/Understanding DOM order, containment, and the bitmask that connects them. Adapted from the article by zhangxinxu , originally published at zhangxinxu.com. Original reproduction...Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-02/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-10-02/Two native APIs can save you a surprising amount of DOM traversal code. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article, with technical clarifications and examples from the supplied...Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-25/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-25/Let the browser handle snapping, then use JavaScript to keep your interface in sync. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article, published April 20, 2019, and updated June 12, 2...Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-24/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-24/Turn a CSS image preview into a bitmap you can save, share, or upload. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article, published April 20, 2019, at 23:30, under JavaScript Examples....Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-22/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-22/Turn markup into a document, work with its structure, and convert it back into text. Adapted from the original article by zhangxinxu. HTML often arrives as a string: a template,...Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-21/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-21/Understand playback, loading, buffering, and the events that keep an audio interface in sync. Adapted from the original article by zhangxinxu, with technical clarifications and...Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-20/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-20/Develop with reusable components. Deliver ordinary HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Original article by zhangxinxu. Read the original · Explore Moka on GitHub Republication notice: Th...Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-19/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-19/By zhangxinxu · Originally published July 27, 2019 Adapted with technical corrections and examples from the supplied demo. JavaScript offers plenty of ways to work with scrollin...Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-18/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-18/Giving an everyday form control a little more room to breathe. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article, with technical corrections and companion demo examples. A textarea can...Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-17/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-17/Package SVG icons with JSZip, offer a browser download, and keep users informed along the way. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article. A tool that extracts individual icons...Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-16/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-16/How native HTML interactions, CSS anchor positioning, and shaped borders can simplify a familiar UI component. Adapted from an article by zhangxinxu , originally published on Se...Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-15/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-15/Understand the browser’s validation tools—and connect them to an interactive, event-driven interface. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article, with updated technical explanat...Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-14/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-14/Parse URLs, manage query parameters, and resolve relative paths with native JavaScript. Author: zhangxinxu Originally published: August 26, 2019 Editorial note: This edition upd...Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-13/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-13/Understand what changed, choose the right signal, and keep your UI in sync. Adapted from zhangxinxu’s original article. Code examples are extracted and condensed from the suppli...Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-12/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-12/How layout, hidden elements, and line breaks change the text JavaScript returns. For years, I treated innerText and textContent as interchangeable. Browser compatibility encoura...Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-11/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-11/How to coordinate browser tabs, prevent competing uploads, and keep asynchronous work under control. By zhangxinxu . Adapted from the original article, with practical excerpts f...Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-10/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-10/A small browser property that can survive a page change—and a reminder that browser history shapes today’s APIs. Most JavaScript state disappears when you navigate to another pa...Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-09/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-09/Originally inspired by zhangxinxu’s 2019 article on the ECMAScript Internationalization API. This version is rewritten as a concise technical Medium-style introduction, with pra...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-08/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-08/By zhangxinxu Original source: https://www.zhangxinxu.com/wordpress/?p=8972 Managing focus is one of those small frontend details that can quietly make or break the user experie...Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-07/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-07/Native image lazy loading is one of those small HTML features that removes a surprising amount of JavaScript from everyday frontend work. Instead of watching scroll events, calc...Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-06/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-06/Opening the same page over and over again is a small UX problem that can quickly become annoying. A user clicks a link once, gets a new tab, then clicks the same link again and...Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-05/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-05/For a long time, document.readyState felt like one of those browser APIs that looked useful in theory but rarely earned its place in real production code. It is old. It is simpl...Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-04/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-04/Based on the article by zhangxinxu, published September 3, 2026. Original source: https://www.zhangxinxu.com/wordpress/?p=12379 For years, IndexedDB has been the default answer...Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-03/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-03/CSS feature detection is most useful when you are about to rely on a property or value that may not exist everywhere. The right approach is not browser sniffing. Instead, ask th...Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-02/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-02/In real project development, you will often receive a relative URL and need to normalize it into a full absolute URL. For example: This is useful when processing links, normaliz...Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-01/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-09-01/CSS is often better than JavaScript at answering environment questions. It can detect viewport size, dark mode, pointer behavior, hover support, reduced motion preferences, and...Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-31/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-31/3D LUT filters are one of the core tools behind cinematic color grading. At a high level, a 3D LUT is a lookup table that remaps one RGB color to another RGB color. Instead of c...Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-30/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-30/MutationObserver is useful when you need to detect changes to DOM nodes, attributes, or text content. But for a long time, detecting size changes was less direct. Developers oft...Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-29/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-29/JavaScript numbers look simple at first: one Number type, one global Math object, and a handful of familiar methods like Math.round() , Math.floor() , and parseInt() . ES6 made...Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-28/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-28/Users often upload full audio files when your product only needs a short clip. A typical music file may run 3-5 minutes, but the business requirement might only need the first 1...Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-28-practical-notes-on-javascript-events-for-two-finger-image-zoom-o/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-28-practical-notes-on-javascript-events-for-two-finger-image-zoom-o/Implementing image zoom on mobile sounds simple until you try to debug real two-finger gestures in the browser. The tricky part is not only applying transform: scale() to an ima...Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-26/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-26/JavaScript events are not limited to browser-native interactions like clicks, typing, or mouse movement. You can also create your own events, dispatch them manually, and pass da...Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-09/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-09/Inspired by Zhang Xinxu’s original article on CSS attr() polyfilling, with updated context for modern browser support. For years, CSS attr() was useful but frustratingly limited...Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-06/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-06/CSS custom properties are usually introduced as reusable values: But they are more powerful than that. A custom property can store almost any token sequence, including syntax th...Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-04/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-04/ES6 template strings, also called template literals, are one of those JavaScript features that feel small at first, then quietly remove a lot of friction from everyday UI work....Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-03/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-03/But is it actually that awesome? Let’s take a closer look. The Starting Point: Most Click Interactions Are State Toggles If we strip many common click interactions down to their...Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-02/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-02/Long documentation pages often need a table of contents that follows the reader. As the user scrolls, the navigation item for the current section should become active. The tradi...Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-01/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-08-01/For years, when I needed to work with DOM attributes, I reached for the familiar set: These APIs are everywhere. They are old, stable, and easy to remember. So I assumed that wa...Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-31/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-31/JavaScript’s DOM APIs often look interchangeable. In many cases, two methods can produce the same visible result, which makes it tempting to treat them as stylistic alternatives...Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-30/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-30/Modern web apps are increasingly used in workspaces with more than one display: dashboards, trading terminals, presentation tools, support consoles, payment flows, and monitorin...Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-29/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-29/By Zhang Xinxu. Adapted from the original article at zhangxinxu.com. Keyboard events look simple until you try to handle real-world input. For years, many JavaScript examples us...Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-28/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-28/Escaping and unescaping HTML is one of those tasks that looks simple until you start thinking about every character, browser behavior, and execution environment. Most developers...Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-20/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-20/Shadow DOM gives Web Components one of their most useful superpowers: style isolation. A component can define its own markup and CSS without leaking styles into the page or bein...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-19/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-19/Page zoom sounds simple until you try to detect it reliably. On desktop, users usually zoom with Ctrl + , Ctrl - , or the browser menu. On mobile, users pinch to zoom. Those two...Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-18/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-18/Converting an HTML string into real DOM nodes sounds simple, but the browser gives us several APIs with different tradeoffs. Some are fast, some are safer, some require a valid...Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-17/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-17/Front-end video generation sounds simple until audio enters the picture. If all you need is visual recording, the browser already gives you several options. canvas.captureStream...Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-16/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-16/For feed-style products like Weibo, image lists are everywhere. On mobile, those images are often served as 2x or even 3x assets to preserve visual quality on high-density scree...Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-15/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-15/A colleague recently mentioned Vap in our group chat. The description was simple: it can play flashy animation effects, and more importantly, it supports transparent animation b...Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-14/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-14/Last week, I tried Vap , a player that can use WebGL to decode and play videos, and wrote an article documenting the experience. Someone commented under that article: if all I w...Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-13/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-13/Based on Zhang Xinxu’s discussion of Safari’s Web Components limitations, with practical implementation examples from the demo code. Safari supports autonomous custom elements ,...Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-12/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-12/JavaScript gives us several ways to coordinate multiple asynchronous operations. Three of the most useful are Promise.all() , Promise.race() , and Promise.any() . They all accep...Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-11/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-11/In the browser, user interaction and JavaScript assignment are not treated the same way. When a user types, pastes, or drops text into an , the browser fires an input event. Whe...Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-10/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-10/Two DOM APIs quietly became much more interesting recently: Element.setHTML() and Element.startViewTransition() . The first gives the browser a native way to insert HTML while a...Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-09/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-09/Small CSS details often cause the most confusing UI bugs. Here is a common front-end requirement: show only the first three list items by default, then reveal the remaining item...Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-08/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-08/JavaScript’s Proxy feels immediately useful: it lets you intercept property reads, writes, function calls, construction, and more. Reflect , at first glance, feels less dramatic...Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-07/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-07/HTML Imports are dead. No modern browser supports them as an official platform feature anymore, and that sounds like bad news. But for static HTML demos, documentation pages, an...Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-06/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-06/Web video compatibility is usually simple until it is not. Most of the time, you reach for the native element, encode an MP4, and move on. But some real-world mobile browsers co...Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-05/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-05/For a long time, file uploads on the web have meant one thing: an element with type="file" . It is simple, reliable, and still very capable. You can use accept to limit selectab...Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-05-when-should-javascript-weakmap-be-used/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-05-when-should-javascript-weakmap-be-used/Most JavaScript applications can run perfectly well without WeakMap . That is part of what makes WeakMap easy to ignore. It is not a daily-use feature like Array.map() , Promise...Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-03/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-03/Copying text to the clipboard looks like a tiny feature until you need it to work reliably across browsers, old enterprise environments, local demos, and modern HTTPS applicatio...Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-02/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-02/In web development, we often use familiar properties like target , src , style , or value . But scattered across browser APIs are several less obvious properties that start with...Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-01/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-07-01/The visibilitychange event has been around for a long time. I first wrote about it back in 2012 in an article introducing the Page Visibility API. At the time, it felt like a cl...Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-30/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-30/Original article by zhangxinxu. Source: https://www.zhangxinxu.com/wordpress/?p=12241. This adaptation preserves the original author, source, and links. For years, importing JSO...Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-29/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-29/Random numbers show up everywhere in JavaScript: temporary IDs, animations, randomized UI effects, shuffling lists, lottery-style selection, tokens, UUIDs, encryption keys, and...Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-28/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-28/JavaScript template strings are familiar to most developers: They make string interpolation readable and convenient. But JavaScript also has a more advanced form: tagged templat...Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-27/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-27/Originally published by zhangxinxu on March 15, 2022, under “JS Examples.” Source: Xin Space - Xin Life. Audio playback looks simple until you need a real player: playlist navig...Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-26/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-26/Custom fonts can make an interface feel polished, but they also introduce a timing problem: the browser may render text before the font file has finished loading. When that happ...Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-25/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-25/Most JavaScript developers rarely need new Function . In day-to-day frontend or Node.js work, a regular function or arrow function is usually clearer, safer, and easier to maint...Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-24/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-24/Barcodes feel old compared with QR codes, but they still solve a useful problem: turning short pieces of structured text into simple, machine-readable graphics. With JavaScript,...Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-23/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-23/Browsers try to be helpful. When a user refreshes a page normally, such as by clicking the refresh button or pressing F5 , the browser often restores the page to the same scroll...Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-22/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-22/Web Components give us a native way to build reusable UI primitives. But once you start building more than one custom element, a practical question appears quickly: What should...Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-21/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-21/String processing in JavaScript looks simple until user input, repeated matches, regular expressions, and captured groups enter the room. Two modern APIs help a lot here: - Stri...Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-20/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2026-06-20/A Feishu-style OKR input box looks simple from the outside: type @ , choose a person, insert a clean mention token, hover it for details, and press Enter to submit. Under the ho...Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://melin.vercel.app/blog/2025-02-17/https://melin.vercel.app/blog/2025-02-17/Learn how to use the CSS font-size-adjust property to improve font legibility across different fonts. 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