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Carousels: No one likes you - Joni Halabi
The only person who wants a carousel on your site is you. That’s it. It’s a self-serving vanity project so that you can showcase all of your babies at the same time without telling the world which one is your favorite.
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This is an excellent one-stop shop of interface patterns:
This is an organic collection of common JS patterns that can be replaced with just HTML, CSS, and no, or very low, JS. As HTML and CSS continue to mature, this collection should expand.
Reimagine the Date Picker – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
This is a superb way to deprecate a little JavaScript library. Now that you can just use HTML instead, the website for Pikaday has been turned into a guide to choosing the right design pattern for your needs. Bravo!
Pikaday is no longer a JavaScript date picker. Pikaday is now a friendly guide for front-end developers. I want to push developers away from the classic date picker entirely. Especially fat JavaScript libraries.
A Web Component UI library for people who love HTML | Go Make Things
I’m obviously biased, but I like the sound of what Chris is doing to create a library of HTML web components.
Cool native HTML elements you should already be using · Harrison Broadbent
dialog, details, datalist, progress, optgroup, and more:
If this article helps just a single developer avoid an unnecessary Javascript dependency, I’ll be happy. Native HTML can handle plenty of features that people typically jump straight to JS for (or otherwise over-complicate).
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