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Also, I run in issues where clients like to customize the style of the drop-down selector in desktop. However, it could be styled, the element itself, and with the help of a little JavaScript that makes this visible element I lay when needed and accesible.
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…
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HTML describes the structure of a document, not really the layout. If HTML had or tags, sure. But CSS determines the layout via display/position properties.
is inline is block , and are your grid, row and column. CSS improves on describing layout with positioning but HTML was still doing that before CSS even came along.
>popover Why are we cool with popups again? Anything that interrupts and blocks content is annoying, and is nearly guaranteed to make me leave immediately. It can be used responsibly, but it almost never is.
ngl i was surprised for the modal dialogs i always thought we needed javascript as i have been doing so forever with jquery a bit off topic but wish we could bring back and . just good old fashioned stuff from the late 90s
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Single page applications are one of the most anoying web patterns i know of. Please just let me have one page for each ting to do so i actually can bookmark it properly.
Ive made SPAs in Blazor that make it a point to update the URL whenever a "navigation" occurs. I also made it a point to ensure refreshing or loading the URL restored the state. It's a small problem compared to the ease of use for development you can gain via Blazor, so I don't see any reason not to solve it.
But this can be done in any JavaScript framework and ofcourse Vanilla JavaScript. It takes some effort, but creates a much better user experience.
Popover, dialog, invoker commands, our entire production app uses these everywhere and it works really well! The fact that dialogs and popovers are rendered on the "top layer" and that nested popovers are also automatically stacked on top of each other and have 'cascading close' shows how well these standards were designed. The only hard thing is still to position a popover near the element that triggers it, such as…
On positioning: we got farther with CSS anchor positioning once we stopped treating it like absolute offsets and started from "this is the preferred edge, then let the browser flip." Still awkward for nested context menus, but far less brittle than measuring getBoundingClientRect in a resize observer.
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> Want sortable tables? Get a jquery plugin and spend five minutes, done. I want sortable tables without having to rely on a third-party plugin to a third-party library. HTML describes content, not just layout. It would be a `sortable` attribute on the table, just like you already have attributes that have nothing to do with layout such as `autocomplete` or `aria-*`.
Everyone already complains that browsers are too bloated and now you want to have every browser support sortable tables when a single, simple JS file would work?
Popover, dialog, invoker commands, our entire production app uses these everywhere and it works really well! The fact that dialogs and popovers are rendered on the "top layer" and that nested popovers are also automatically stacked on top of each other and have 'cascading close' shows how well these standards were designed. The only hard thing is still to position a popover near the element that triggers it, such as…
> The only hard thing is still to position a popover near the element that triggers it, such as when you want to create a context menu that has to render above/below the button that triggered it. There is anchor positioning in CSS now but support is still limited and I find it hard to wrap my head around. I was going to suggest anchor positioning. I found it difficult to wrap my head around too, but once it clicks it…