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@mikehall314.bsky.social - Lessons from Building for the Bottom of the Web. Talk from #SotB26 is now live.
2026.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/mike...
Look, the Web Engines Hackfest is now a W3C-endorsed conference: www.w3.org/events/confe...
Some working groups might arrange meetings at the hackfest. Thanks to W3C for your support and collaboration.
Hmm if only the web had a way to do autogrowing text fields? Oh wait!
Yeah I'm really looking forward to vapor mode being stable, skipping all the VDom overhead. I'd like to see Vue Vapor mode authoring web components as a first class thing.
Not because you couldn't do it probably easier with those frameworks, just more so as an exercise to try build something very solid, performant and accessible. Could try make use of some of the new HTML streaming primitives that are being worked on.
Oh yeah I've used it before, the scroller itself felt quite good. There were papercuts with the app in general but I think most are actually mastodon itself rather than elk.
Still, I wonder if one that's a layer lower and forgos even the frameworks (Vue is still like 20KB) could be done.
ATProto feels like a good API to build around for an app that really leans into modern web primitives. It's nothing too complicated just displaying different records. The virtual scroller would be the hardest part but if you lean into the platform we can probably find a good solution.
Glad it's not just me! I'm also on Android.
Does anyone know of any custom bluesky clients that are full featured? I basically want Bluesky's but not horribly broken half the time?
Like what is it that means interactive elements just cease to function, I've had it happen in two unrelated apps and both are react native...
I was very shocked at the one yesterday, I looked up and could tell it was a bird of prey, it flew a bit like a buzzard but just didn't look right and wasn't a red kit because no tail fork, I looked up with the camera and realised it was an osprey from the colours and wing shape.
A screenshot of the part of the accessibility settings with the option of “Require alt text before posting” selected
Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!
Has her mate not shown up yet either? Hopefully they both show up soon! Still plenty on migration down south.
An osprey flying overhead, towards the north.
A Great Bustard looking away towards the stones.
A Great Bustard looking into the camera, stones behind it.
Nice day out at Stonehenge, went to see Gertrude the Great Bustard who's recenly returned. Got treated to a bonus Osprey flyby! My third Osprey this week but much less expected than in Poole harbour.
#UKBirding
Request for developer feedback
Stop writing boilerplate JS for accessible menus. We’re proposing a new HTML primitive: focusgroup. It brings native keyboard arrow-key navigation directly to the platform.
Tell us what you think → goo.gle/4uvFIkz 🧵(1/3)
But other grids are dynamic layout via CSS so it's a bit trickier to get right. I personally think some of the 2d use cases are more interesting in the long run but it's nice to get even the basic 1d behaviours without JS.
Right now the initial set is for 1d behaviours like a listbox is block, a menubar is inline. Radiogroups support inline and block but are still 1d. There's future ideas for expanding it to 2d use cases like tables and grids. Tables are relatively simple because they're 2d structurally.
Yeah I think dual branded 777s are the best move provided the batteries last long enough. Still would be good to get the systems interopable but I guess less important.
Gonna be interesting to see how things play out once they have the extension from bidston to Liverpool. TfWs backend is apparently quite capable because it's designed with a future of operating with busses too. So hopefully there's something the backends can do to speak to each other.
New on the Squarespace Engineering Blog! Squarespace & Web Standards: How We Helped Bring HTML Video & Audio Lazy-Loading to Today’s Browsers.
I'm real proud of the teamwork that went into this. Stay tuned for part 2 next week, which will cover dev best practices for using this new HTML standard.
There's some funkiness with the Android text selection handles, but this works remarkably well considering.
I've been playing around with Chrome's experimental HTML-in-Canvas API (I use it to create my videos), and I wanted to see if I could make text-selection work on a curved surface by moving the underlying element around on pointermove. It works pretty well!
Why would they even redact malicious? Is this some silly attempt to avoid lawsuits? If so surely the fact this is individual responses that are clearly opinions protects them from even Apple lawyers.
CSSWG have resolved to support appearance base on fieldset!
github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...
Cc @adactio.com I know you were keen for this.
That's actually amazing. AI ruining April fools jokes already.
Yeah it's an April fools. They've just gone a step further than putting the rick roll in the socials post.
Also parliament spent years talking up sovereignty and now they have it (always did) they're not willing to just write legislation that says we now own Thames water for 0 cost... Something parliament absolutely has the power to do.
CSS or BS? I got 42/80 -- can you do better?
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs/?r...
#CSSorBS
I second guessed myself on a few.
Primark recently changed their cotton t-shirts from having printed labelling on the neck to actual stitched labels. I'm genuinely angry as they were the only ones I know of without a label and I cannot stand labels. Such a pointless step backwards.
Osprey carrying a sea bass
Little Ringed Plover
Female Adder
A successful end to my holiday in Dorset. Spent the morning at Swineham. An osprey flew past carrying a massive sea bass. Found a little ringed plover and also heard bearded reedlings (both new lifers) and a surprise group of 4 adders, including this female.
