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Eric Bailey takes a hardline position on <input placeholder>.

You might be thinking, as I did: yeah, yeah I know the pitfalls. I’m capable of using placeholder responsibly. But when you look at all the negatives together:

• Can’t be automatically translated;
• Is oftentimes used in place of a label, locking out assistive technology;
• Can hide important information when content is entered;
• Can be too light-colored to be legible;
• Has limited styling options;
• May look like pre-filled information and be

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I first wrote this post four years ago. I put it on a blog that no longer exists. Funnily enough, I still refer to it myself, so I figured it might be best served in a place where other people can see it. I’ve made only a few minor tweaks to the original content. A lot about how I work has changed, but most of these pieces have not.

I work on many personal projects concurrently. I love doing this, …

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You might know Filestack from being an incredible service to add file uploading, storage, and management to your own web apps.

There is another thing Filestack can do for you: convert documents into different formats.

For one thing, it can manipulate documents. Take images. Perhaps you would like to offer some image manipulation for your users uploaded images, like cropping and rotation. That’s a common feature for apps that offer avatar uploading. With Filestack, you got it.

It’s great …

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Yes, this is a React component, but regardless if you care about that part or not, the “ideal image component” part could be of interest. There is a lot to consider with how we put images on web pages these days. This deals with:

• Placeholder space (and then flexible responsive styles after loading)
• Low-quality placeholder images
• Responsive images syntax (srcset)
• Image formats (e.g. using WebP when you can)
• Click-to-load on bad network connections
• Better UX for loading errors,

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When we produce a PNG image, we use an <img> tag or a CSS background, and that’s about it. It is dead simple and guaranteed to work.

PNG is way simpler to use in HTML than SVG

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for SVG, despite its many advantages. Although you’re spoiled for choices when using SVG in HTML, it really boils down to inline, <object> and <img>, all with serious gotchas and trade-offs.

Problems with inline SVG…

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