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- Government Design Principles “The UK government’s design principles and examples of how they’ve been used.” There’s some great stuff in here.
- Getting started with View Transitions on multi-page apps “The best part about MPA View Transitions, is that under the hood it’s just normal “dumb” page loads and we’re progressively enhancing our way into smart, sleek transitions all with zero JavaScript required.”
- Four new CSS features for smooth entry and exit animations
- Where to Put Focus When Deleting a Thing – “TL;DR: When deleting something you should generally move focus to the prior equivalent control or its grouping container”, says glamorous Adrian Roselli
- Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning. And here’s a 15 min video on using CSS anchor with HTML popover to make tooltips etc that scroll correctly with no Javascript at all.
- The ideal viewport doesn’t exist – Andy Bell and his whippets on why we should never code to ‘iPhone breakpoint’, ‘tablet breakpoint’ etc.
- A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-conformant focus indicators by Sara Soueidan
- AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless “The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans” – so get rid of them from your sites; they’re often an accessibility disaster for actual humans.
- Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship – I had to debug a site made with Tailwind recently. I’d rather use my scrotum as a pin cushion than do that again.
- Considerations for TV user interface accessibility by your chums at Tetralogical
- Safari is working on the Popover API, which is nice. Apple evidently want it to be a strong browser for when other engines are allowed to compete on iThings.
- Talking of popovers, I found an interesting bug in display:none when looking at using popover as a lightbox for images and videos: Should AV content with display:none continue to play sound?. It seems to me that “display” refers to all perception/ senses. That is, if something is hidden from eyes it should be hidden from ears.
- Nuclear Anchored Sidenotes by Eric Meyer
- A few unpopular opinions about AI “The most dangerous prospect arising from the current generation of AI is not the technology, but the philosophy espoused by some of its technologists.” – similarly with cryptocurrency, which explains my deep queasiness about both techs.
- I Blame the W3C’s HTML Standard for Ordered Lists – I can get unreasonably grumpy about standards, but this is God-tier: “Am I blaming the rise of fascism and the downfall of Western civilization on the W3C’s pig-headed and flawed implementation of the OL tag in HTML? A little, yes.”
- The world’s last internet cafes
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