Dynamic Datalist: Autocomplete from an API :: Aaron Gustafson
Great minds think alike! I have a very similar HTML web component on the front page of The Session called input-autosuggest.
A Sliding Nightmare: Understanding the Range Input | CSS-Tricks
Ana goes into exhaustive detail on all the differences in the shadow DOM and styling of input type="range" across browsers.
I’m totally fine with browsers providing different styling for complex UI elements like this, but I wish they’d at least provide a consistent internal structure and therefore a consistent way of over-riding the default styles. Maybe then people wouldn’t be so quick to abandon native elements like this in favour building their own UI components from scratch—the kind of over-engineering that inevitably ends up being under-engineered.
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SCALABLE: Save form data to localStorage and auto-complete on refresh
When I was in Amsterdam I was really impressed with the code that Rose was writing and I encouraged her to share it. Here it is: drop this script into a web page with a form to have its values automatically saved into local storage (and automatically loaded into the form if something goes wrong before the form is submitted).
Bring Focus to the First Form Field with an Error :: Aaron Gustafson
A handy little script from Aaron to improve the form validation experience.
The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake? | WIRED
Paul Ford:
The web was born to distribute information on computers, but the technology industry can never leave well enough alone. It needs to make everything into software. To the point that your internet browser is basically no longer a magical book of links but a virtual machine that can simulate a full-fledged computer.
Sentence Forms (not Mad Libs) | Adrian Roselli
Apparently the sentence forms that I kicked off with Huffduffer are making a comeback.
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Months and years
Progressively enhancing form fields.
That was Web Day Out
An excellent day of talks in Brighton exactly 37 years after the birth of the World Wide Web.
Installing web apps
BeforeInstallPromptEvent vs. navigator.install
Providers
Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?
Jake Archibald is speaking at Web Day Out
The sixth speaker is revealed—only two more to go!