I’ve been having some really interesting chats with Brian about tabs, markup, progressive enhancement and accessibility. Here’s a braindump of his current thinking which is well worth perusing.
Here are the many, many reasons why you should not open links in a new window (or tab).
Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in text.
Fixed an issue on iOS and iPadOS where
datalistsuggestions were presented directly over the associated input, obscuring it.
This is a clever technique for a CSS/HTML only way of just-in-time loading of iframes using details and summary.
A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components.
This is an interesting proposal for a declarative way of triggering permission dialogs, although it seems to overlap with the work being done on invokers (command and commandfor).
What really disgusts me is to see Google referring to this element as though it’s a done deal. It’s not. It’s a proposal …a proposal that Apple rejects and Mozilla rejects.
Words matter. Call your proposal a proposal, Google.
Update: They fixed it!
Try writing your HTML in HTML, your CSS in CSS, and your JavaScript in JavaScript.
Mobile Safari doesn’t support the min and max attributes on date inputs.
Better UX through better HTML: inputmode, enterkeyhint, and autocomplete.
2022 was once unimaginable to some web folks.
The terminology of applying CSS.