Here’s a nifty post by Chen Hui Jing where she walks us through her process for making radio buttons accessible via keyboard. I particularly enjoyed this bit where she discusses the four options that are available to us to hide the radio input and replace them with a selection of cards that act like toggles instead:
Most of us mess up the keyboard navigation portion of things when we hide the input element. There are several ways to make something …
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Sticky elements are predominantly used for keeping something shown on the screen throughout scrolling. As cool as that is, we can also hide elements in the same way!
Here’s a typical (um) sticky situation:
See the Pen position:sticky (CSS) by Preethi Sam (@rpsthecoder) on CodePen.
Sticky elements (position: sticky;) are very similar to fixed elements ( position: fixed;) in that they both maintain their position on the screen, even as the user scrolls up …
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This is a great explanatory microsite by Sam Richard.
CSS Houdini will let authors tap in to the actual CSS engine, finally allowing us to extend CSS, and do so at CSS speeds. Much like Service Workers are a low-level JavaScript API for the browser’s cache, Houdini introduces low-level JavaScript APIs for the browser’s render engines.
What’s important to know is that Houdini is broken up into these different parts, each of which will be implemented separately. We have an …
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It was Safari who first started hiding the complete URL. Here’s what CSS-Tricks looks like even when you’re on an article page by default in Safari:
The full URL path is hidden.
You can only fix it (YES, FIX IT) by checking “Show full website address” in settings.
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We’ve already damaged the sanctity of URLs in a way with URL shorteners. Thankfully, those are used less and less with social networks, like Twitter, not counting the URL toward …
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