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Awesome article. Like the author, I'm also confused about when to use b and strong & i and em.
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Eric Meyer, the king of css still has his old css references in frames pages https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/references/css1ref.html
I get "www.w3.org refused to connect." Is that expected?
Awesome article. Like the author, I'm also confused about when to use b and strong & i and em.
Awesome article. Like the author, I'm also confused about when to use b and strong & i and em.
In practice, any sane screen reader or default visual style will treat them exactly the same.
Awesome article. Like the author, I'm also confused about when to use b and strong & i and em.
I’m not sure if screen readers actually work like this but the intention was that text that is is spoken with emphasis, like “oh, please ”, whereas is simply italic, like veni, vidi, vici .
> Some of deprecated elements won’t render without some extra work, for example and are designed to be used instead of a , for I guess some kind of collage web page made up of other pages. The author is too young to remember frames, huh? :) I'd just link the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(World_Wide_Web) ), but I feel like it doesn't explain it very well. So, to briefly explain -- in the ear…
Then came iframes, also terrible.
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I get "www.w3.org refused to connect." Is that expected?
I guess it is some sort of cross-site security thing. Devtools just says "blocked:other" as the reason for not displaying it.
> Nightly Can’t Open This Page
> To protect your security, www.w3.org will not allow Nightly to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.
> Learn more…[1]
> [Open Site in New Window]
[1]: Links to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/xframe-neterror-page
I was trying to make a web browsing ai agent a few days ago and I was shocked to find that hacker news comments are implemented as table inside table inside table.
I no longer struggle to read HN on a wide browser which display 250 characters on a single line. Each paragraph is readable, and the paragraph breaks are visibly higher than the line-height.
Most of these aren't widely used because they were quaint attempts at solving problems that no longer exist, could be better solved with CSS (as the author concedes with ), and very much depend on browser implementation. I was excited when and landed in all evergreen browsers for example, but just to get the content to slide open (guiding the user) instead of pop open requires JS (the best implementations I've seen u…
It is possible to have sliding animations without JS, it just isn't very pretty on close (on open looks fine):
https://codepen.io/dada1smo/pen/LYydWBg
(note, that is not mine, I found it via a comment on a css-tricks link).
> Some of deprecated elements won’t render without some extra work, for example and are designed to be used instead of a , for I guess some kind of collage web page made up of other pages. The author is too young to remember frames, huh? :) I'd just link the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(World_Wide_Web) ), but I feel like it doesn't explain it very well. So, to briefly explain -- in the ear…