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HTML Can Do That

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Re: HTML Can Do That

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Post by kotaKat »

dematz wrote: post #8

This comment by yurishimo should not be [dead], imo >Just a heads up but datalist is not really a great solution if you need a strong contract. The user can still type whatever they want into the field and there is no fuzzy filtering or typo mitigation. Once you add those requirements, a library that gives you a more fully featured combobox is likely going to make a lot of sense in your project. It is true! HTML can…

(iirc if you have [showdead] on you can click on the timestamp to the comment and will get a [vouch] option as a reverse-flag, fwiw. i see it and don't have showdead enabled, so enough people have re-vouched it!)

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Post by hyperhello »

esprehn wrote: post #16
hyperhello wrote: post #6

I don’t understand why the group invented these new attributes and methods of action for dialogs that don’t seem relevant to anything else. Was there some silly patent to work around?

As opposed to what? Not sure what the alternative you're picturing is.

popovertarget="example-dialog" popovertargetaction="hide"

It’s all binding. This is what JavaScript is for: dynamic content.

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Post by bee_rider »

jamescun wrote: post #5

I'm that minutia in your statistics that is still rocking NoScript in 2026, enabling JavaScript on a site-by-site basis, but this is increasingly difficult with the modern web. Hopefully these and others modern HTML features gain adoption, along with realizing perhaps a Single Page Application isn't necessary in most instances. I don't often have to write frontend code, but when I do, there is very little in terms of…

Thank goodness you exist, the fingerprinters will be confused as to which one of the two of us went to their website!

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Post by wvbdmp »

jdlshore wrote: post #4

The “hidden until found” feature surprised me. What’s the use case for something like that?

Pretty cool! I’ve been using for this. One example would be a collapsible tree hierarchy of our organization that you can CTRL+F and still find collapsed teams and people. Or an accordion, or anything collapsible, really.

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Post by aitchnyu »

Saw Grouped , ctrl+F'd the hidden content and it opened and highlighted the text in Firefox. Was waiting for this fix ever since I learned about details.

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Post by krapp »

hk__2 wrote: post #20

Related to this, I’d love that HTML natively support sortable tables. This is a common need but every single time I have to reimplement it.

That's what javascript is supposed to be for. All of this is what javascript is supposed to be for.

HTML describes layout, CSS describes style, JS adds interactivity.

Want sortable tables? Get a jquery plugin and spend five minutes, done.

This was all solved a decade or more ago.

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Post by silvestrov »

I'd really wish I could force ISO format for the date input as the current "platform native" is confusing for some users when the OS use a different language than the web page that is shown.

For some multi-country companies it makes sense to have all admin pages in English no matter the underlying OS language. Imagine sending a screenshot where the OS date format is different from what everybody else expects from an English page.

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Post by hollowturtle »

An "HTML Can't Do That" would be hundreds pages long, and at the pace of getting features like dialogs every decade we're limiting ourselfs on any further development and creating serious apps. It wasn't created for apps, it was created for light document formatting. When we will pretend a drawing api we can call directly from webassembly? Outside of web ui frameworks are doing just fine and way better and more performantly than html and dom

Re: HTML Can Do That

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Post by jamescun »

bee_rider wrote: post #23
jamescun wrote: post #5

I'm that minutia in your statistics that is still rocking NoScript in 2026, enabling JavaScript on a site-by-site basis, but this is increasingly difficult with the modern web. Hopefully these and others modern HTML features gain adoption, along with realizing perhaps a Single Page Application isn't necessary in most instances. I don't often have to write frontend code, but when I do, there is very little in terms of…

Thank goodness you exist, the fingerprinters will be confused as to which one of the two of us went to their website!

How? There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
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