699: Jeremy Keith on Web Day Out – ShopTalk
This episode of the Shop Talk Show is the dictionary definition of “rambling” but I had a lot of fun rambling with Chris and Dave!
CSS Anchored Positioning
An interesting proposal for defining how one element could be “anchored” to another, and how that positioning could be expressed declaratively instead of having to write a whole load of JavaScript. Melanie’s looking for use cases so share ‘em if you have ‘em.
Personally, I’m not convinced that a new element is needed but I’m open to the suggestion.
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Why we teach our students progressive enhancement | Blog Cyd Stumpel
Progressive enhancement is about building something robust, that works everywhere, and then making it better where possible.
The only frontend stack we should talk about
Explore the platform. Challenge yourself to discover what the modern web can do natively. Pure HTML, CSS, and a bit of vanilla JS…
Reimagine the Date Picker – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
This is a superb way to deprecate a little JavaScript library. Now that you can just use HTML instead, the website for Pikaday has been turned into a guide to choosing the right design pattern for your needs. Bravo!
Pikaday is no longer a JavaScript date picker. Pikaday is now a friendly guide for front-end developers. I want to push developers away from the classic date picker entirely. Especially fat JavaScript libraries.
Interop Feature Ranking
This is a nifty initiative:
This site lets you rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which proposals should be taken on for 2026.
For the record, here’s my top ten:
- Cross-document view transitions
- Speculation Rules API
img sizes="auto" loading="lazy"- Customizable/stylable
select- Invoker commands
- Interoperable rendering of HTML
fieldset/legend- Web Share API
- CSS scroll-driven animations
- CSS
accent-colorproperty- CSS
hanging-punctuationproperty
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Displaying HTML web components
You might want to use `display: contents` …maybe.
button invoketarget=”share”
An alternate route to a declarative version of the Web Share API.
Lost in calculation
A lazy option for responsive images is at hand.
# Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 at 8:37pm