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🥊 Tackling HTML Bloat

April 5, 2023

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Dive into top reads on tackling HTML bloat, rethinking design handoffs, enhancing tables with web components, and accessibility concerns with CSS-only widgets. Plus, test your skills & tune into a design podcast! Enjoy ✌️ - Adam from dailydevlinks.

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📚 Top Reads

Fighting inter-component HTML bloat

The separation of concerns we aim for in design systems has an unwanted byproduct: bloated HTML in the space between components.

The Best Handoff Is No Handoff

Design handoffs are inefficient and painful. They cause frustration, friction and a lot of back and forth.

WYSIWYGPT

When GPT-4 was announced earlier this month, one of the demos made a massive splash: painting a web app on a napkin and getting the “AI” to create the HTML, CSS and JavaScript to make it work.

The search element

First and foremost, one would use the search element to expose the search landmark in the browser’s accessibility API.

Progressively Enhancing a Table with a Web Component

What if I could build a web component that enhanced a regular HTML table?

CSS-only Widgets Are Inaccessible

Interactive widgets powered with only CSS are relatively common as people are playing with all the ways CSS can respond to, or create, interactions.

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