Dark Ages of the Web
Notes on the old internet, its design and frontend.
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Accessible star ratings (progressively enhanced from radio buttons) with lots of animation options. The code is on Github.
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The canonical example in just about every pattern library is documenting button variations. Here, Tyler shows how even this seemingly simple pattern takes a lot of thought.
An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element | Blog | Chrome for Developers
This looks interesting. On the hand, it’s yet another proprietary creation by one browser vendor (boo!), but on the other hand it’s a declarative API with no JavaScript required (yay!).
Even if this particular feature doesn’t work out, I hope that this is the start of a trend for declarative access to browser features.
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