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  • Microsoft Edge Side Panel API
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2023
  • Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2023
    The spec is a W3C CSS working group draft: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/

    It looks like less of a Chrome thing and more of an Edge thing? The Intent to Prototype [1] links to an Edge explainer [2] with Microsoft authors. It doesn't look like anyone has asked Mozilla for a position yet [3] but I expect if they get positive signals from web developers (us!) that will be soon.

    [1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/vsPdd...

    [2] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/...

    [3] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues?q=anch...

  • Make your design compatible with foldable device
    1 project | dev.to | 16 Feb 2023
    1 project | dev.to | 12 Feb 2023
  • HTML document subtitles?
    1 project | dev.to | 10 Nov 2022
    Read the explainer here
  • More than “Just a web app”
    1 project | /r/PWA | 18 May 2022
  • What's New In Microsoft Edge Devtools?
    1 project | dev.to | 25 Jan 2022
    You can learn more about Focus Mode in this Edge explainer document.
  • Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2022
    For a spec about a browser feature, "getting it" can mean a few different things.

    1. Understanding the purpose of the feature ("why/when would I use this?")

    2. Understanding how to implement the feature

    3. Understanding how to use the feature

    4. Understanding the feature's "corner cases" (surprising implications, cases where it doesn't do what you'd expect, etc.)

    5. Understanding why the feature works the way it does (instead of some other way)

    Most of the web specs really only explain how to implement a feature, and even then, they're not great at that, because they do such a poor job at explaining the purpose of the feature.

    Assuming that you, like most of us, aren't working on implementing a browser, that means that web specs are mostly unhelpful to you. It's almost completely beyond the purpose of a spec to teach you how to use a feature, what its corner cases would be (which are often unknown at the time a spec was written), and why the specification says what it says.

    This is an area where the web spec community has made some improvements in recent years. Nowadays, it's understood that new proposed specifications shouldn't just provide a specification, but also a separate "explainer" document, whose purpose is to communicate #1 (the purpose of the feature), and also persuade the other browser vendors to implement the feature. ("This will be really cool, and here's why…")

    At a minimum, specs nowadays often include a non-normative "Motivation" section, as the CSS Nesting spec does. https://www.w3.org/TR/css-nesting-1/ I you'll find that you can "get" that spec much better than you can the CSS OM spec https://www.w3.org/TR/cssom-1/ which is old enough to buy alcohol and doesn't include a "Motivation" section.

    You can often find explainer docs linked off of https://chromestatus.com/ e.g. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/... I think you'll find that explainers are 10000% better for learning features than specs are. (They typically even discuss #3, #4, and #5, as they typically discuss alternative rejected approaches.)

  • Introducing transparent ads in Microsoft Edge Preview
    1 project | /r/MicrosoftEdge | 13 Dec 2021
    Transparent ads are enabled through ad providers joining the Transparent Ads Provider program. More info on the program and the requirements for providers here - https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/TransparentAds/Program-Overview.md
  • The strangely difficult problem of drawing a box around text
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2021
    Not necessarily for a Swift project, but your experience makes me wonder about the current web API for highlighting spans of text.

    https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/...

    Complicated...

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