Damian’s notes

I remember the days of server-rendered or statically rendered HTML, in contrast to the modern approach of having a giant bundle of JavaScript faking the navigation and accessibility features HTML already provides. Jim Nielsen uses navigation between separate, simpler pages to power his site’s interactivity, with the new view-transitions CSS features providing the animations between states.

Latest HTML5 features allow you to create dialogues and popovers declaratively (just HTML attributes and some CSS to style it), rather than needing a giant bundle of JavaScript. Less JavaScript on web pages is always a good thing, and using built-in HTML features is good for accessibility as well. Here’s a blog post from David Bushell on how its done.