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by azangru 1y ago
Someone in a comment below posted a link to Adobe Spectrum design system [0]. You will find similarly shaped tooltips in Shoelace [1], or shadcn [2]. The Popper library has it [3]. Github's design system has it (they call it popover) [
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> Think a common approach is to just display a triangular svg beneath the tooltip One killer feature of CSS anchor positioning is that it allows you to declaratively define fallback positions if the floating element does not fit into the
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> In particular I think what confused people was that the standard blue surgical masks are somewhat effective at stopping an infected person from passing on covid (and various other things), but not hugely effective at preventing the wea
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> I'm unsure what you mean by "pointer" An arrowhead pointing at the anchor element. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooltip#/media/File:Mobile_URL... UPD: In spec speak, these are ca
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I need a tooltip, with a pointer; but it seems that the current state of the spec does not allow for pointers; and most explainers studiously avoid this use case, as if this isn't a lion's share of what people do with anchored flo
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> Unless there is a polyfill for Firefox Doesn't this count? Been there for several years. https://github.com/oddbird/css-anchor-positioning
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> Rationalists came to correct views about the COVID-19 pandemic while many others were saying masks didn’t work I wonder what views about covid-19 are correct. On masks, I remember the mainstream messaging went through the stages that w
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> For the last 25 years, Microsoft was known for: - Creating a language (typescript) that took the front-end web community by storm. - Becoming one of the real adopters of "progressive web apps". Apple is actively hostile to th
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> As a web developer who also uses web sites I care less about speed than I do usability. Most of the time I'm on a 1Gbps+ connection Sure, I get it. The same argument can be applied to web accessibility. Most frontend developers ar
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Management are management. They do managementy things. They do not develop. We, developers, do. For some things, we hold ourselves up to certain standards. Why not for site performance? > I've totally given up with it and I've
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> I totally disagree with his conclusion that companies want their website to be faster But what do web developers want? What do web designers want? Some developers pride themselved on being craftsmen. They would write tests. They would
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> Are you going to pay extra those two engineers of your company for doing something that is clearly outside what they were hired for at beginning or outside their competences? Why is it outside (and not just outside, but clearly outside
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Isn't the final boss of z-index the top layer?
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> CSS has gained a few constructs like contain or will-transform He probably means will-change.
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> I've got this feeling that the endless feature creep of Github has begun to cause rot of core essential features. Tangential, but... I was so excited by their frontend, which was slowly adopting web components, until after acquisi
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Matteo Collina says that the node fetch under the hood is the fetch from the undici node client [0]; and that also, because it needs to generate WHATWG web streams, it is inherently slower than the alternative — undici request [1]. [0] - h
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> Sure, but what kind of action does it imply? A BBC article from a couple of days ago lists about 150 countries that have recognized a Palestinian state, dating back to 1988 (which is, btw, when North Korea recognized it). I don't
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Is monarchy a dictatorship?
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> It's interesting how everyone thinks they're "managers" in "agile" teams. In scrum in particular, teams are supposed to be "self-organizing and self-managing". Perhaps that's why :-)
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The author of the article writes: > You’re not the player, you’re the coach. Sometimes that means strategy and big-picture thinking. Sometimes it means shielding your team from dumb shit. Sometimes it means buying someone coffee and sayi
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I really, really, really doubt the "crawled but not indexed" status can have anything to do with page loading speed. Lower ranking, sure; although Google doesn't say how much weight they give to page speed when ranking. But n
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> Current LLMs might also be wrong Current humans might as well :-)
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> and most players are charging money for a service The aricle talks about AI overviews. As exemplified by the AI summary at the top of Google search results page. That thing is free.
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> But the // TODO: doesn’t need to be a plan to actually do something. Instead, it’s a note about “here’s an edge case that wasn’t handled” or a suggestion for a better structure that the author didn’t make time to implement Wh
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At least in your example there are some bakers to empathize with. They would have to manually bake the cake. Now imagine your phone refuses to take a picture of the Nazi flag, because the owners of the phone manufacturing company have a cer
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> But what about being closer to the top of the Google search results - you might ask? One, search engines crawling websites directly is only one variable in getting a higher search engine ranking. References from other websites will als
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Yes; this is what university courses in literature do: they force-feed texts to students at a rate that many struggle to absorb. Instead of reading selected texts slowly and with pleasure, students rush through them with curses. It's b
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> instead of learning Web standards, rather ships Chrome alongside their application I am confused. - The "shipping Chrome alongside their application" part seems to refer to Electron; but Electron is hardly guilty of what is d
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Why do they have this in the list of examples of 'run-on sentences': > Bad: To access your programs click the Start button. > Improvement: To access your programs, click Start. Sure, the improved version has added a comma, b
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> While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits To me it's the other way around. If the platform had been named X from the start, then a language would h

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