Mayank / is on Nostr

design engineer and tinkerer. always listening to prog.

posting about HTML, CSS and other web stuff.

trying to build a less broken, more accessible web.

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pronouns: they/them
blog: https://www.mayank.co/blog

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2024-09-06 18:38:13

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hunte-- oh hi Zach!

2024-09-06 18:17:37

as a macOS user,
i want a random unrelated window to steal my focus while i'm in the middle of typing
so that i can waste 10 minutes complaining about it before i get back to whatever i was doing

2024-07-19 19:05:33

#CSS has come so far but it still feels so lacking when it comes to overflow and sticky positioning.
sure, you can implement something like the holy grail layout using CSS grid, but that's usually a bad idea, because you give up all the optimizations that the "root scroller" comes with by default (such as keyboard scrolling and pull-to-refresh). https://codepen.io/hi_mayank/pen/GRaZXPg
so instead you're stuck with `position: sticky`, which means you also need to add `z-index`, `background` and `scroll-margin`.

2024-07-06 15:09:36

good links:
"Videos of people with disabilities using tech"
https://axesslab.com/tech-youtubers/
"Web accessibility perspective videos"
https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/
"Soundbites: Short discussions with disabled people about the barriers they encounter on the web."
https://a11yrules.com/series/a11y-rules-soundbite/
#accessibility #a11y

2024-07-05 18:49:49

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can we get svg favicons already? (safari pls https://caniuse.com/link-icon-svg)

2024-07-04 19:10:13

i think it's safe to say google's web•dev site is fucked beyond redemption.
there is occasionally some good stuff on there, but i just can't trust it anymore.
RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/112723864251453189
RE: https://pleroma.envs.net/notice/Ajb0xyL5kBbtCrZA7k

2024-06-27 21:10:22

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fwiw, that post about icon fonts is still one of my favorite things you've written.
you can totally phrase things differently, but at the same time, you shouldn't have to.
maybe it's a culture thing, but i honestly feel like people in tech are just bad at receiving criticism, and very easily take personal offense even where there's nothing remotely personal.

2024-06-24 19:00:59

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it's hard to not be negative about some recent tech bullshit tbh. and impossible when something is completely broken

2024-06-20 12:27:11

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it's wild that your *very* reasonable take was considered so controversial that it offended people to the point they feel the need to publicly announce they're unfollowing you. if anything, this only helps show the ableism that's so deeply ingrained in the average fossbro

2024-06-17 23:40:45

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quick note about the `::backdrop` pseudo-element (for both `<dialog>` and `popover`) https://www.mayank.co/notes/against-the-backdrop
and by "quick", i mean this post has literally been in the works for at least two years now.
#HTML #CSS

2024-06-17 18:44:46

found this absolute gem of a post when looking for ammo against overlays https://accessdefense.com/?p=5378
> "If your business wants to avoid getting sued under the ADA because of an inaccessible website an accessibility overlay or widget isn’t going to help you. I can say this with some certainty because in the last two weeks alone five lawsuits have been filed against businesses that use an accessibility widget or overlay on their websites."
(see footnotes for list of those lawsuits)
#accessibility

2024-06-12 21:18:06

i love links. probably the best feature of the web

2024-06-07 21:22:19

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follow-up: #CSS reset for the `<dialog>` element (it's the same reset as `popover`)
https://mayank.co/notes/dialog-default-styles

2024-06-06 23:49:24

quick note about the #CSS reset that i'm using for `popover`
https://www.mayank.co/notes/popover-default-styles

2024-05-24 09:01:16

since i switched instances this week, i thought i'd do a (re) #introduction.
hi! my name is Mayank. i go by they/them pronouns.
i'm a design engineer (or "frontend developer" in less fancy terms) trying to build a less broken, more accessible web.
i write a lot of HTML/CSS/JS, so i post a lot about it too. web standards stuff yes, but also framework stuff. anything relevant for building websites.
here's my website that i can never find enough time to work on: https://mayank.co

2024-05-21 18:58:59

one of my favorite uses of #CSS `:has()` is to change the grid layout based on what's inside the grid
```
grid-template-areas: /* simple layout */
&:has(.thing) {
grid-template-areas: /* more complex layout */;
}
```