Reading List 316
- Link of the week: On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do – even if you don’t care about popover, this is an excellent post on the kind of things that browsers give you for free when you use HTML rather than loads of JS. By Hidde de Vries and Scott O’Hara
- Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid – “Or bye bye, rigid column grid layout”
- What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition) by Chris Coyier
- These Side-by-Side Videos Will Make You Rethink Your Captioned Videos or ‘how to do captions properly’ by Meryl Evans
- Real CSS scoping and View Transitions are now in Safari Tech Preview 191 – yay, Safari team! Extraordinary what happens when Apple management feel a little competition breathing down their Armani-collared necks.
- Just possibly related: Report: People are bailing on Safari after DMA makes changing defaults easier – “If Safari is not the default browser, there will be an option for “Default Browser App” where you can easily set Safari as the default. But if Safari is set as the default, this option disappears.”
- An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries Learn how to use CSS container queries today, by Ahmad Shadeed.
- New declarative web thang o’the week: I love invokers and you should too a new declarative way to open menus etc with
<button invoketarget="">. Chrome Canary & Firefox Nightly both have experimental support and there’s a teenyweeny Invoker Buttons Polyfill. - How Russian banks use trojan horse apps to stay in Apple’s App Store – “Sanctioned banks in Russia are getting around Apple’s App Store Review process to stay in the App Store. Here’s how they’re doing it.”
- Inclusive Sans is a text font designed for accessibility and readability. The Regular and Italic styles are currently available for use on Google Fonts.
- In-browser OCR for images and PDFs – no file upload needed, uses Tesseract.js and PDF.js.
- In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem
- Models all the way down is a nicely-executed immersive scrolly thingie about how the massive models for AI are trained.
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