From: @leaverou
https://front-end.social/@leaverou/115657376260400954

why do something like
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if you can just
<div role="link" tabindex="0" href="..."><div><div><div><div aria-label="click me">click m<span>e</span></div></div></div></div></div>

Did you know that this kind of thing happens all the time — Browser 1 is popular. It implements A Cool Feature a certain way. Developers think that's correct, because it's what most users have. Browser 2 follows the web standard & implements according to the agreed-upon spec. But it's different Browser 1. And web developers make their site work in Browser 1. And so it doesn't really work correctly in Browser 2. And developers get frustrated, and blame Browser 2.

But it's Browser 1 that's wrong.

G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler.

https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler

I’m super excited about `text-wrap: pretty`. It does a lot more to improve typography than you might expect — at least in Safari Technology Preview 216.

It improves all lines of text, not just the last 4. It enhances hyphenation & rag, not just avoiding short last lines.

https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/

Introducing Silk — The most advanced swipeable sheet ever engineered for the web.

Native-like experience • Works on all devices • Unlocks dozens of UI patterns on the web.

Available for React.

🚀 Launching style-observer: A bulletproof, production-ready library for observing CSS property changes in JS.

Developed with the help of my apprentice @dmitrysharabin over the last month, to scratch possibly one of my longest-standing itches.

Made possible by the pioneering work of @bramus, Artem Godin, @JaneOri and many others!

Blog post: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2025/style-observer/
Docs: https://observe.style

If you like doing crafts with your kids, you will love this just as much as I did: https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/

A free app with dozens of box patterns you can customize and print.

My daughter wanted a box for a specific toy, we measured it and thanks to @templatemaker made a pattern to fit it precisely. ❤️

Haven’t actually made the box yet, but very impressed with this. Clearly someone’s labor of love.

I’ve just published a fully accessible carousel plugin in vanilla JS: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm-carousel
#a11y #javascript feel free to try it and make feedbacks, thanks!