Dynamic Datalist: Autocomplete from an API :: Aaron Gustafson
Great minds think alike! I have a very similar HTML web component on the front page of The Session called input-autosuggest.
Old CSS, new CSS / fuzzy notepad
I absolutely love this in-depth history of the web, written in a snappy, snarky tone.
In the beginning, there was no CSS.
This was very bad.
Even if you—like me—lived through all this stuff, I guarantee there’ll still be something in here you didn’t know.
Related links
The Web Runs On Tolerance – Terence Eden’s Blog
Spot-on observations from Terence linking the fundamental nature of parsing in web browsers with the completely wrong-headed takes of some technologists who have built on top of the web.
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It | The New Yorker
A profile of Tim and the World World Web.
Developing an alt text button for images on my website | James’ Coffee Blog
I like the idea of adding this to personal websites:
Mastodon shows an “Alt” button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image.
The orders of complexity of websites and what they imply for the design of web platform features
An excellent appraisal of the importance of the rule of least power.
Related posts
Read-only web apps
It’s fine to require JavaScript for read/write functionality. But have you considered a read-only mode without JavaScript?
Web Audio API update on iOS
The behaviour is more consistent now.
No code
Serious business or tools for online expression?
Democratising dev
How do we share the means of the web’s production?
Numbers
“I am not a number, I am a free website!”