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Chris Mills

@chrisdavidmills.bsky.social

Independent tech writer, http://millsdocs.com; clients include Mozilla and Google. A11y advocate, web platform tinkerer, IA enthusiast. Mainly writes content for https://developer.mozilla.org. Drummer, guitarist, and lover of horrible, noisy music.

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Translator and Language Detector APIs - Web APIs | MDN The Translator and Language Detector APIs provide functionality to detect the language that text is written in, and to translate text into different languages, via a browser's own internal AI model (w...

I've documented the Translator and Language Detector APIs on MDN, which detect a text string's language and translate it to another language using a browser's internal AI model: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

26.05.2025 08:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Summarizer API - Web APIs | MDN The Summarizer API summarizes a given body of text via a browser's internal AI model.

I've documented the Summarizer API on MDN, which summarizes a body of text using a browser's internal AI model: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

22.05.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Customizable select elements - Learn web development | MDN This article explains how to use dedicated, modern HTML and CSS features together to create fully-customized <select> elements. This includes having full control over styling the select button, drop-d...

New on MDN, I've documented all-new, fully-customizable <select> elements: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/L.... Thanks to everyone who provided reviews!

01.04.2025 07:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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text-box - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN The text-box CSS property is a shorthand that corresponds to the text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties, which together specify the amount of space to trim from the block-start edge and block-end ...

I've documented the new text-box-* CSS properties on MDN. They enabled you to trim space from text elements in the block direction for consistent text spacing. Get started at developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W.... Thanks to @estelle.bsky.social from @openwebdocs.org for the fabulous review work!

03.03.2025 12:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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FileSystemObserver - Web APIs | MDN The FileSystemObserver interface of the File System API provides a mechanism to observe changes to the user-observable file system and the Origin Private File System (OPFS). This means web application...

I've documented the FileSystemObserver API on MDN, which provides an easy way to observe file system changes: see developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W.... Thanks to Will from @openwebdocs.org for the reviewing work!

03.03.2025 12:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did you misread "cat tickling?"

20.02.2025 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hello BSky, I finally decided to give this a try! I am currently listening to Siouxsie, writing scripts for CSS challenge videos, and looking into documenting new CSS and API features on MDN. I wish I was playing guitar; currently learning Pantera's Cowboys from Hell.

20.02.2025 13:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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