Tantek documents the features he wants his posting interface to have.
Every UI control you roll yourself is a liability. You have to design it, test it, ship it, document it, debug it, maintain it — the list goes on.
It makes you wonder why we insist on rolling (or styling) our own common UI controls so often. Perhaps we’d be better off asking: What are the fewest amount of components we have to build to deliver value to our users?
It’s great to see the evolution of HTML happening in response to real use-cases—the turbo-charging of the select element just gets better and better!
This is a really interesting proposal, and I have thoughts.
A plea to let users do web things on websites. In other words, stop over-complicating everything with buckets of JavaScript.
Honestly, this isn’t wishlist isn’t asking for much, and it’s a damning indictment of “modern” frontend development that we’ve come to this:
- Let me copy text so I can paste it.
- If something navigates like a link, let me do link things.
- …
A good ol’ rant by Vasilis on our design tools for the web.
A small but important addition to CSS.
A presentation at An Event Apart Chicago 2019.
The headache of an inconsistent viewport.
A few things to remember if you’re going to using position:fixed.
Some code to show a progress bar for file uploads.