Adactio: Links
I really, really, really like this proposal! This would absolutely turbo-charge cross-document view transitions with nary a line of JavaScript in sight. adactio.com/links/22686
Adactio: Links
I can’t understand how we got to this place with “app culture”! Software companies are happy to make their lives harder (and more expensive: deploying to the big app stores isn’t free!), in order to deliver HTML content to fewer people and with fewer features than if they just published directly...
Adactio: Links
A history of front-end development that culminates here: The frontier of 2026, the stuff the sharpest people are most excited about, is render the HTML on the server, ship almost no JavaScript, and use the web platform instead of fighting it. adactio.com/links/22650
Adrian Roselli
This is a redress of my 2019 post Link + Disclosure Widget Navigation, except (as the title implies), I’ve modified it to use native HTML popovers instead of ARIA or HTML disclosure widgets. Popover has the benefit of using appropriate HTML structure and semantics while removing the need for...
Adactio: Links
Alex takes issue with my post giving kudos to Apple for concentrating on bugfixes in the latest version of Safari, and he brings receipts. He makes a very compelling case, backed up with data. But when it comes to Chrome’s shipping of the half-baked prompt API, I’m not sure he gets just how badly...
Adrian Roselli
Chrome 150 has landed support for focusgroup, a feature proposed by Open-UI and not yet in WHATWG HTML as anything more than a feature request. Open-UI has outsized representation from Google and Microsoft folks, so it’s no surprise Chrome would implement it first. “FOCUS!” by Metro Centric,...
Adactio: Links
This is excellent advice and I’m glad to see this getting addressed nice and early in the era of customisable select elements: always provide text content or accessible text attributes for your option elements. adactio.com/links/22620
Adactio: Journal
I give Apple a hard time. That’s mostly due to how they treat the web on their own mobile devices. Though iOS ostensibly supports the ability for websites to be added to the homescreen, they make it so difficult for users to do, the functionality is practically worthless. It’s dispiriting to see...
Adrian Roselli
Hi, just me heading off some bad advice I’m starting to see in developer venues. Background The proposed Document Outline Algorithm, where headings would automatically reset themselves to the appropriate level based on their position in the DOM structure, was never part of a final HTML...
Adrian Roselli
Just in time for Google I/O, the Chrome for Developers site announced Modern Web Guidance (MWG): Modern Web Guidance is a set of evergreen and expert-vetted skills that guide your AI coding agents across many common use cases to build modern web experiences that are accessible, performant,...
Adrian Roselli
I am not speaking on behalf of the W3C nor the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG), nor am I a member, nor does anyone who is member know I am writing this, nor do I have any insider knowledge. For years I have seen people, teams, products, organizations, and projects promoting...
Adrian Roselli
If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of affairs in the three rendering...
Adrian Roselli
This is an unplanned part two for Barriers from Links with ARIA. The title reflects my exasperation because this isn’t new, I’ve simply failed to be explicit about it over the last decade or so. In 2012 I vented about TypeButter using <kern style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;"> for each...