Raindrop.io Bookmarks 03/16/2025

2025年3月16日

• The Opt Out Project

  "Yes, you can live without Big Tech. If data is the new oil, then I'm here to help you go electric."

• UK report finds Apple and Google are 'holding back' mobile browsers | The Verge

  "The United Kingdom's mobile browser market is "not working well for consumers and businesses" according to a final report from Britain's competition watchdog, which says that Apple and Google are largely to blame."

• Overlay Timeline

  "A reverse-chronological record of headlines, lawsuits, and commentary about accessibility overlays and the companies who make them."

• Usability testing with disabled users is a good investment - Nicolas Steenhout - Keynote speaker and trainer.

  "We need to stop just thinking about standards conformance. We need to think accessibility, especially when we reach more complex patterns. It becomes particulalry important when we want to use really unusual patterns."

• The customizable select - Part one: history, trickery, and styling the select with CSS | utilitybend

  "Everyone loved the capability and the work by Open UI, the things we could do, but the new element idea, it just didn't sit right. And that's when a new idea was born... Let's re-use the select, and create an opt-in via CSS."

• Faster Rendering with the content-visibility CSS Property | DebugBear

  "The content-visibility property gives developers more control over how browsers render content. By telling browsers to skip rendering off-screen content, you can improve page load time and interactivity."

• Lazy Load Background Images with the IntersectionObserver API | DebugBear

  "It would be nice to have a native background-loading: lazy property in CSS as well, but unfortunately, it doesn't currently exist. Luckily, the IntersectionObserver API provides a performance-friendly solution to lazy load background images without having to manually add JavaScript event listeners and perform viewport calculations, or use a third-party library."