A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
There are plenty of opportunities for friction in the user experience when logging in, particularly while entering a two factor authentication code. As developers we should be building applications that support the need for account security but don’t detract from the user experience. Sometimes it can feel as though these requirements are in a battle …
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<details> is Not an Accordion
Dave Rupert on why that (wonderful) way of Using the <details> element to create modals and menus is not good for semantics. Because <summary> has role=”button”, it eats the semantic content of elements inside it. So that big <h1> inside of your <summary> becomes just another piece of text, sans semantics. I especially like this …
Highly interesting book (in the making) by Simon Pieters, on how HTML parsers work: The HTML parser is a piece of software that processes HTML markup and produces an in-memory tree representation (known as the DOM). The HTML parser has many strange behaviors. This book will highlight the ins and outs of the HTML parser, …
Can I email is like Can I use but specifically for email: which HTML and CSS features are supported by which mail client? They also provide a scoreboard, ranking mail clients based on their support among the 70 HTML and CSS features listed on Can I email. Can I email… Support tables for HTML and …
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<picture> element
Great trick by Brad Frost, in which he combines prefers-reduced-motion? with the <picture> element <picture> <source srcset="no-motion.jpg" media="(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)"></source> <img src="animated.gif alt="brick wall" /> </picture> Yes, that actually works! Reducing motion with the <picture> element → 💫 When taking prefers-reduced-motion into account in your CSS code, it becomes really powerful when combined with CSS Custom …
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Nice find by Scott Jehl from Filament Group: Instead of fetching files over XHR and then injecting their contents, you can also use an iframe + leverage its onload event to include the contents of any other file directly into the current web page. <iframe src="signal.svg" onload="this.before((this.contentDocument.body || this.contentDocument).children[0]);this.remove()" ></iframe> The example above loads up …
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<details> element to create modals and menusThe folks over at GitHub have been leveraging the <details> element to create modals and menus: <details class=“dropdown”> <summary class=“btn” aria-haspopup=“menu”>…</summary> <ul class=“dropdown-content”> <li><a href="/muan">profile</a></li> … </ul> </details> Very clever, as <details> trumps the <modal> element in many ways: Semantic Accessible No JavaScript Next to that, they’ve also released a few custom elements that make …
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Good piece by Hidde on the markup one needs to use when linking to a translation of a page. The other day I worked on some front-end code that takes users to a version of the website in a different language. Two attributes can make such links more accessible: lang and hreflang. What’s the difference? …
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select element
Scott Jehl, from Filament Group: The select element has long been difficult to style consistently across browsers. To avoid its shortcomings in the past, we have used workarounds like styling a parent element, adding pseudo-elements, and even using JavaScript to construct a select-like control out of different elements that are easier to style. But workarounds …
Handcrafted recreation of an 18th-century oil painting using just HTML and CSS. Here’s an analysis of it using the Chrome DevTools, as recorded by Paul Irish: Chrome only though: Because of the artistic nature of this project I have not concerned myself with cross-browser-compatibility, so the live preview will most likely look laughable in anything …
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