Why I Like Designing in the Browser – Cloud Four
This describes how I like to work too.
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
Smart advice on future-proofing and backward-compatibility:
There isn’t a single, specific device, browser, and person we cater to when creating a web experience. Websites and web apps need to adapt to a near-infinite combination of these circumstances to be effective. This adaptability is a large part of what makes the web such a successful medium.
Consider doing the hard work to make it easy and never remove feature queries and @supports statements. This creates a robust approach that can gracefully adapt to the past, as well as the future.
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Justified Text: Better Than Expected? – Cloud Four
Some interesting experiments in web typography here.
Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too) - Rogue Engine
Remember when every company rushed to make an app? Airlines, restaurants, even your local coffee shop. Back then, it made some sense. Browsers weren’t as powerful, and apps had unique features like notifications and offline access. But fast-forward to today, and browsers can do all that. Yet businesses still push native apps as if it’s 2010, and we’re left downloading apps for things that should just work on the web.
This is all factually correct, but alas as Cory Doctorow points out, you can’t install an ad-blocker in a native app. To you and me, that’s a bug. To short-sighted businesses, it’s a feature.
(When I say “ad-blocker”, I mean “tracking-blocker”.)
Intent to Ship: View Transitions Same-Origin Navigation
Finally! View transitions for multi-page apps (AKA websites) will be landing in Chrome soon—here’s hoping other browsers follow suit. Mozilla are up for it. Apple are, as usual, silent on their intentions.
Nice to see a blog post of mine referenced to show that this is a highly-requested feature. Blogging gets results, folks!
Popover API lands in Baseline | Blog | web.dev
It’s very exciting to see the support for popovers—I’ve got a use-case I’m looking forward to playing around with.
Although there’s currently a bug in Safari on iOS (which means there’s a bug in every browser on iOS because …well, you know).
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The web on mobile
Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever.
content-visibility in Safari
Safari 18 supports `content-visibility: auto` …but there’s a very niche little bug in the implementation.
Mismatch
It’s almost as though humans prefer to use post-hoc justifications rather than being rational actors.
Speculation rules and fears
Browser are user agents, not developer agents.
button invoketarget=”share”
An alternate route to a declarative version of the Web Share API.