Remix Icon - Open source icon library
I love how easy it is to use these icons: you can copy and paste the SVG or even get it encoded as a data URL.
Let them paste passwords - NCSC Site
Ever been on one of those websites that doesn’t allow you to paste into the password field? Frustrating, isn’t it? (Especially if you use a password manager.)
It turns out that nobody knows how this ever started. It’s like a cargo cult without any cargo.
Related links
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Structured data and Google
Bruce wonders why Google seems to prefer separate chunks of JSON-LD in web pages instead of interwoven microdata attributes:
I strongly feel that metadata that is separated from the user-visible data associated with it highly susceptible to metadata partial copy-paste necrosis. User-visible text is also developer-visible text. When devs copy/ paste that, it’s very easy to forget to copy any associated metadata that’s not interleaved, leading to errors.
Nicole Fenton | Interface Writing: Code for Humans
The text of Nicole’s excellent talk on writing helpful, human microcopy.
CSS Form Control Styling Level 1
This looks like a really interesting proposal for allowing developers more control over styling inputs. Based on the work being done the customisable select element, it starts with a declaration of appearance: base.
An example of an HTML Web Component | Go Make Things
Another example of an HTML web component from Chris, who concludes:
Web Components are rapidly becoming my preferred way to add progressive enhancement to HTML elements.
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A little fix for Safari.
Multi-page web apps
A question via email…
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Better UX through better HTML: inputmode, enterkeyhint, and autocomplete.
The principle of most availability
Reframing the principle of least power.
Good form
Science, the web, and user experience.