About Clay Hess

Clay has a passion for technology…not just for the ‘cool-ness’ factor, but for the way technology has and is improving our lives. Who could have foreseen how technology has become integral in everyones daily way of life. Each of us relies on some sort of technology to improve our lives and the lives of others. That is what drives Clay and Webolution Designs…changing peoples’ lives. Web technology can be an amazing tool to improve businesses, quality of life and bring hope to those that otherwise may not receive it if it weren’t for a technological advance. This is the reason that the Webolution Designs tagline is “We all want to change the world”.

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A Quick Tour of the Web Encoding API

Modern web apps live at the boundary between JavaScript strings and raw bytes. The Web Encoding API exists to make that boundary explicit and safe: it lets you encode a string into UTF‑8 bytes and decode bytes back into text. Importantly, these operations aren’t symmetrical—encoding targets UTF‑8, while decoding can interpret UTF‑8 and many legacy encodings. Alongside the synchronous TextEncoder and TextDecoder, the platform also provides stream-based variants for processing text incrementally as data arrives.

Clay Hess January 6, 2026
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EditContext API: A New Foundation for Custom Web Editors

The experimental EditContext API gives developers a new foundation for building custom rich text editors by separating text input and selection from rendering. Instead of relying on contenteditable, you attach an EditContext to a focusable element and manage your own text model, selection state, and UI updates—while still receiving browser-grade events for typing, caret movement, and IME composition. This demo highlights the core event flow and why character bounds matter for accurate input UI, especially in custom-rendered editors.

Clay Hess January 2, 2026

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