This looks like a handy resource with a shitty, shitty name. Count the number of items that are in HTML (or JavaScript or APIs). Now count the number of items that are in CSS.
It seems like the misguided perception of needing to use complex tools and frameworks to build a website comes from a thinking that web browsers are inherently limited. When, in fact, browsers have evolved to a tremendous degree
This looks interesting. On the hand, it’s yet another proprietary creation by one browser vendor (boo!), but on the other hand it’s a declarative API with no JavaScript required (yay!).
Even if this particular feature doesn’t work out, I hope that this is the start of a trend for declarative access to browser features.
Here’s the video of the talk I gave in Nuremberg recently.
Andy walks us through using the Web Share API as a progressive enhancement …but wouldn’t it be nice if we could just write button type="share"?
You might want to use `display: contents` …maybe.
If the JavaScript API requires a user gesture, maybe it’s time for a new button type.
It’s not because it’s declarative—it’s because it’s robust.
Kicking the tyres on a declarative Web Share API.
button type=”share”