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Hidde de Vries

Hidde de Vries

Hidde (@hdv) is a web developer in developer relations. He is interested in web standards, browsers and authoring tools, as well as how they can work together to build a web that puts people first. Hidde writes about these things and more on hidde.blog.
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How Popovers Are About to Become a Whole Lot Easier to Build
React Advanced Conference 2023React Advanced Conference 2023
28 min
How Popovers Are About to Become a Whole Lot Easier to Build
You've probably build one of these before: tooltips, date pickers, menus, teaching UI… they're all examples of “popover” content. Good news: it's going to get a whole lot easier to build these, with some proposed web platform features. You might not even need JavaScript. In this talk, you’ll learn all about the upcoming ‘popover’ attribute, when to use modality and access to the top layer.
accessibilityhtml
Dialog Dilemmas and Modal Mischief: A Deep Dive Into Pop-Ups
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
10 min
Dialog Dilemmas and Modal Mischief: A Deep Dive Into Pop-Ups
Our design systems commonly feature components that show on top of other content: tooltips, date pickers, menus and teaching UI, to name just a few. Proposed updates to the web platform are about to make building these a whole lot easier. You might not even need JavaScript. In this talk, you’ll learn all about the upcoming ‘popover’ attribute, modality and the top layer.
design systemsaccessibility