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Re: Every HTML Element

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post #5

Except this custom one I just invented that I implement in my custom browser

Raises the question, how far can you get using only custom elements and css?

It sometimes appears that the modern ideal is to not have an element "do" anything on it's own and depend on the css to define it's purpose. But we still have a lot of historical baggage we are carrying around.

Re: Every HTML Element

#83

According to MDN [1] there is a element but hell if I know what it does. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/po...

Looks to me like it's intended as a link with preview, and part of the idea is that user agents could do a sort of animated transition morphing the preview into the content of the destination page.

Re: Every HTML Element

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post #78
post #12

I like this! It's fun to compare it to "A blog post with every HTML element" [1][2], which gets at a (very!) similar thing but in a very different way. This post primary shows , and is a little more chaotic (meant positively!) whereas the other post is much more prose and explanation heavy (also good, but very different). [1] https://www.patrickweaver.net/blog/a-blog-post-with-every-ht... [2] HN discussion: https://n…

Whoa! I'm a big fan of yours. You've really inspired me to think more creatively about the web/software. Thanks a ton, I'm glad this reached you.

Ah well hello! I'm not sure I've been recognized like that on the internet before. Thank you, that makes me very happy!

From your website it looks like we're in the same city; feel free to shoot me an email (mine is in my profile) if you'd like to grab coffee sometime :)

Re: Every HTML Element

#85
post #30

I like that you included the tag! I really wish more pages would use them when rendering Chinese/Japanese characters in English text.

(your comment is very minimally informative, containing 1 bit of information: "there is something to learn about ruby". Searching "show source", "hidden gems" on OP's page marks the ruby spot) and looking up the tag: https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/pages/tabbed/ru... The HTML element represents small annotations that are rendered above, below, or next to base text, usually used for showing the pronunciat…

I think it's very clear what he meant

Re: Every HTML Element

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post #30

I like that you included the tag! I really wish more pages would use them when rendering Chinese/Japanese characters in English text.

(your comment is very minimally informative, containing 1 bit of information: "there is something to learn about ruby". Searching "show source", "hidden gems" on OP's page marks the ruby spot) and looking up the tag: https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/pages/tabbed/ru... The HTML element represents small annotations that are rendered above, below, or next to base text, usually used for showing the pronunciat…

Oh wow, TIL the HTML element for furigana is
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