A stream of consciousness by Laurence Hughes

I was back playing in the RBV cafe window for the first time since 2023, and it was a blast!

A nice modern resource listing the now huge range of CSS properties on one page. There’s a neat search with autosuggest and each listed property links to a page with a short description plus MDN browser support data.

As mentioned on the recent Shop Talk Show episode with Jeremy Keith.

There was a heavy whiff of nostalgia about this gig for me. Jeff Mills is currently on a 30th anniversary tour of his mix album Live at the Liquid Room. I bought that album on cassette tape back then and was blown away by it. I subsequently first saw him DJ at the Arena in Glasgow in 1996. Since then I’ve experienced Jeff doing his thing many times and in various places around the world. His sets are the stuff of legend!

Manuel sensed a general misunderstanding of what an interactive element is and what focusable really means. He wasn’t totally sure himself either, so did some research. It’s a long post but the summary is that:

• an important characteristic of all interactive elements is they are natively focusable;
• focusable doesn't necessarily mean sequentially focusable (tabbable). Some interactive elements including dialog are click-focusable, and these are not tabbable but can be focused programmatically or via click.
• it’s also worth knowing that it's perfectly acceptable to place tabindex on a non-interactive element to aid with accessibility. But prefer applying it to semantic elements rather than divs.

This was a weird, mixed reading experience for me. It’s a short book and it’s good – it had me locked in really quickly and I was finished after a few nights. But it was an uneasy read.