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Episode Synopsis
Tony Ennis joins me to talk about how websites can be built with simplicity and power using new html and browser standards.================== EPISODE LINKSTony on X: https://x.com/tonyennisHtml First: https://html-first.comMini JS: https://mini-js.comBase Styles: https://base-styles.comTony's talk at big Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aknX6xq8VfgUna at Google IO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCIStB6y8s================== CHAPTERS00:00 Intro to Tony00:34 Tony's work at Really Good Software02:17 "My whole thing though is ..."05:03 The Platform and a Stylesheet talk07:18 Html tag list07:26 Una and the Chrome dev team making progress09:10 Popovers11:56 New UI Elements in Html 2023 vs 202512:34 Modal15:48 select with selectedcontent tag16:27 Multi-selects (they are still bad, but working on it)16:50 datalist (autocomplete)20:22 Async in HTML (replacing htmx?)28:57 Where React is preferred34:40 The Front-end spectrum -- Mini JS 45:52 Mini-js code example50:43 Laz on why html is great at UI52:30 Why a five-year-old can learn html55:21 Building mobile apps with React Native and webviews59:50 Server-driven web apps1:05:45 Base styles (unreleased minimal CSS framework)1:10:25 CSS Layers for siloing your libraries
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