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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 6d

Well, this gets to the reason my team has objected to the current proposal for Interest Invokers. It doesn't yet have a satisfactory plan for touch-driven devices, nor a clear meeting-of-the-bar for accessibility.

github.com/WebKit/stand...

The `interestfor` attribute · Issue #464 · WebKit/standards-positions

WebKittens @annevk, @nt1m Title of the proposal The interestfor attribute URL to the spec whatwg/html#11006 URL to the spec's repository https://github.com/whatwg/html Issue Tracker URL No response...

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 6d

I find it especially confusing to have two similar things with inverted names. Sorry, I had that name backwards. It’s:

Invoker Commands &
Interest Invokers

I can never remember those names.

Why not:

Button Commands &
Hover Commands

I bet you know what those do just from the names.

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 6d

I wish Command Invokers had a different name that made it most easy for a web developers to understand what it is.

I’d call it Button Commands.

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 7d

For certain use cases this might work: stack two grids on top of each other (in the a-axis, so they layout across the same space) and then animate the size of the tracks to move a certain item. While everything else is laid out in the other grid.

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 7d

It’d certainly be very cool. But it seems like an unsolvable problem.

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 7d

You can animate the size of tracks. But you cannot animate an item to move from one area to a new area. It’s too hard to calculate the motion in between given the reality that tracks are often sized by content, and so the grid layout will likely be very different once the item is in the new spot.

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 8d

I have no idea, but I’m sure landline phone call quality is 100% dependent on the country. The U.S. system was built (started) almost 150 years ago.

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 8d

I just passed along your message to the right people! Thanks.

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 8d

I just learned web fonts have been supported for Initial Letter since Safari 18.4+. (Still prefixed, but before you couldn’t use a web font.)

Yay!!!

Have you used initial letter in CSS? Do you want to?

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 8d

Anchor Positioning has a way to declare where the item appears. Use the `position-area` property with pre-named areas! @saron.bsky.social realized maybe some of the names are confusing. Read more & help decide — should the names be changed?

webkit.org/blog/17417/p...

What do you think??

Position-area: Clear and explicit or short and sweet?

When I first learned anchor positioning, I built a demo to help me figure out how it all worked.

webkit.org

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 9d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 9d

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