Enhancing Web Components Safely with Self-Destructing CSS

A month ago, I wrote about a defensive CSS convention I've been calling Self-Destructing CSS . As CSS patterns go these days this one is delightfully low-tech, but in my work I've seen it have an outsized impact in ensuring usable experiences for increasingly-heavy websites when network or device conditions aren't ideal. This notion of delivering "optimistically" while planning for failure is…