Small, native web tricks worth remembering

moontear•about 2 hours ago

There are some good descriptions and hints, but what the site really needs is examples. Just looking at the code doesn't help me much. The descriptions are also mostly so short, that they could just as well be tooltips on the homepage. The whole premise of the page is a collection of "web tricks worth remembering" and I can't fathom what bash (e.g. `du -hd 1 . | sort -hr`) is doing there.

marcomezzavilla•about 1 hour ago

You’re absolutely right, thanks for the feedback. I initially included live examples (mostly through CodePen), but they were taking too much time to maintain, so I stopped.

The Bash entry was really just a half-finished personal note that I never properly edited. It’s probably out of scope too.

sam_lowry_•about 1 hour ago

Please keep it, personal notes are worth it. Maybe less navigation or +/- voting, then ranking would help us navigate your site?

Like in the good old commandlinefu.

ramon156•about 1 hour ago

Silly question, why not just render the html on the pages? e.g. the popover is something I wanted to see

tylerius•16 minutes ago

Best resource for proper HTML+CSS development is Jason Knight AKA deathshadow's CUTCODEDOWN (cutcodedown.com at Web archive) and his articles at Medium and CodePen (user Jason Knight).

apples_oranges•about 1 hour ago

please don't hide scrollbars :)

afavour•7 minutes ago

Only time I've seen that work is when making a carousel. Once you're using scroll snap it's already not going to behave the way you'd expect a scrollable container to, so having a different indicator doesn't feel so egregious to me.

chrismorgan•about 1 hour ago

Yeah, that was the first one my eyes went to. The only scenarios I can think of where it is acceptable to hide scrollbars are infinite canvases where you’ll draw your own non-linear ones (and even then be disappointed because they can’t look or behave natively), and things like maps where you remap scrolling to zoom and might want to use a backing invisible scroll area for that rather than consuming scroll events (which are somewhat more limited).

In short: unless the native scroll bar will be wrong, do not under any circumstances hide it.

marcomezzavilla•about 1 hour ago

If you mean the "Hide scrollbars" note, I agree 100% (:

There are a few specific situations where it can be useful, but I added the caveat precisely because it’s generally not a good practice.

IndySun•about 1 hour ago

>There are a few specific situations where it can be useful

re scrollbars, Can you give an example?

archerx•33 minutes ago

An online game for example.

OuterVale•about 2 hours ago

They're not really 'tricks' as much of mentions of assorted features of HTML and CSS. You get to discover a similar assortment of things (with much more immediately available detail and many examples) just clicking around MDN.

happytoexplain•28 minutes ago

Sure, they're not "tricks", but it's also definitely not the same as what you get randomly browsing formal documentation.

marcomezzavilla•about 2 hours ago

That’s fair, "tricks" may be overselling it. The website is meant to be a small, opinionated collection of features I want to remember, not a replacement for an authoritative reference like MDN. I can probably make that positioning clearer.

hk__2•about 1 hour ago

> Each post-it pairs one useful platform feature with a small example

I can’t find a single example; each post-it just shows some code but not the result of it.

happytoexplain•26 minutes ago

The code is the example. "Demo" is probably a better word for what you're thinking of.

vortegne•13 minutes ago

without demos this is mostly useless i think

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