"We plan to continue supporting Manifest V2 extensions in Opera independently of what will happen to other browsers. This means that users of Opera's browsers should expect to continue to use non-graded versions of their favorite ad blocker extensions."
"The funny thing is, value is produced from caring. By caring, we produce quality, which in turn produces users who are delighted by our products and want to use them. When did we forget that?"
"So it's frustrating to see the importance of learning HTML dismissed time and time again. Sorry to end on a bad note, but that's where we're at right now."
"Sure, most invalid HTML patterns don't impact accessibility at all, but it is still a risk that assistive technologies will not get correct information - so still an indication. With recent "deprecation" of WCAG 4.1.1 (parsing) our automatic tools lost a very stable and relying testing capability, as this is the only WCAG success criterion that was perfect for automatic testing tools."
"Whatever happens, the warning for future tech founders is clear: Be careful when picking your top-level domain. Physical history is never as separate from our digital future as we like to think."
"Using RSS to follow the stuff that matters to you will have an immediate, profoundly beneficial impact on your own digital life - and it will appreciably, irreversibly nudge the whole internet towards a better state."
"Two seemingly unrelated yet powerful forces shape the products we're building: our experience of building digital products over the last several decades, and science fiction."
"From Chrome 131 CSS highlight inheritance is changing for the ::selection and ::target-text pseudo-classes. This is to create a more intuitive model for inheritance and align with the recently added ::highlight, ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo-classes."
"It's now easy to spot missing ARIA labels, misused ARIA roles, and incomplete keyboard support. This makes testing and development of accessible websites easier."
"Note: I prefer to use overflow-x: auto instead of overflow-x: scroll because scroll will always show the scroll container, even if there is no scroll available. It looks cleaner."
"No one wants to brace for a thorough scolding by the Pattern Police; people want to be heard, understood, and helped. This is why kindness, empathy, and curiosity are such important qualities of design system teams."
"In April 2024, the DOJ updated its Title II regulation, requiring all public-facing websites and digital technologies used by state and local governments to meet WCAG 2.1 A/AA standards. Compliance deadlines are set for April 24, 2026"
"To fix some weird quirks with CSS nesting, the CSS Working Group resolved to add the CSSNestedDeclarations interface to the CSS Nesting Specification. With this addition, declarations that come after style rules no longer shift up, among some other improvements."
"Right now, we feel that AI has not matured enough from an ethical perspective for us to adopt. That said, we remain excited to see how it will evolve and how it can one day be a part of Sketch."
"anchor positioning doesn't have to establish a semantic relationship between the anchor and target elements. You can probably spot the issue right away: non-visual devices, like screen readers, are left in the dark about how to interpret two seemingly unrelated elements."