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.
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...
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...
developer.mozilla.org
May 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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...
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...
Summarizer API - Web APIs | MDN
The Summarizer API summarizes a given body of text via a browser's internal AI model.
developer.mozilla.org
May 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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...
New on MDN, I've documented all-new, fully-customizable
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...
developer.mozilla.org
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
New on MDN, I've documented all-new, fully-customizable
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!
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 ...
developer.mozilla.org
March 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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!
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!
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...
developer.mozilla.org
March 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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!
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.
February 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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.