Designing better target sizes
This is a wonderfully in-depth interactive explainer on touch target sizes, with plenty of examples.
Link tags: target
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Invokers (Explainer) | Open UI
This is a really interesting proposal, and I have thoughts.
Loading and replacing HTML parts with HTML
I like this proposal for a declarative Ajax pattern. It’s relatively straightforward to polyfill, although backward-compatibility is an issue because of existing browser behaviour with the target attribute.
Fixed Headers and Jump Links? The Solution is scroll-margin-top | CSS-Tricks
I didn’t know about scroll-margin-top! I wonder if you could apply a universal rule …like, say you’ve got a fixed header that’s 2em in height, couldn’t you declare:
:target {
scroll-margin-top: 2em;
}
Link Targets and 3.2.5 | Adrian Roselli
Here are the many, many reasons why you should not open links in a new window (or tab).
Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in text.
Forget privacy: you’re terrible at targeting anyway - apenwarr
A spot-on description of how targetted advertising works …or rather, how it doesn’t.
They are still trying to sell me car insurance for my subway ride.
Registering as a Share Target with the Web Share Target API | Web | Google Developers
Well, this could be very handy for Huffduffer!
Building a CSS-only image gallery (with fallbacks)
A great step-by-step walkthrough of building a really nice image gallery without any JavaScript.
The end result is really impressive but there’s still the drawback that the browser history will be updated every time you click on an image thumbnail (because the functionality relies on ID attributes referenced via :target). Depending on your use-case, that may or may not be desirable.
If it weren’t for retargeting, we might not have ad blocking
The more I reflect on the current practices of the online advertising industry, the more I think that ad-blocking is a moral imperative.
The :target Trick
An alternative to using the :checked pseudo-class for sprinkling in some behaviour—you can use the :target pseudo-class. It might mess up the browser history though.
Vitamin Features » Stay on :target
Brian shows some clever uses of the little-known :target pseudo-class.