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New comment by extra88 in "In defense of two-state theme toggles"

extra88 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:07:33 +0000

I'm most familiar with the U.S., where it's not a requirement. Europe is the only place where I've heard there might be a requirement to honor a device's color scheme, I think it's very unlikely it exists anywhere else.

If a site honors the dark/light setting, I don't know what accessibility need would be served by being in the opposite mode for that one site. Having a toggle to meet preferences, yes, need, I don't know.

New comment by extra88 in "In defense of two-state theme toggles"

extra88 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:03:24 +0000

Everyone thinking about 2-state vs. 3-state controls is automatically honoring the device's color scheme setting. The controls are an extra to let users choose to not use the device setting on a particular site.

Rather than each site making its own design for such a control, I wish browsers would make it a per-site setting users could use.

New comment by extra88 in "In defense of two-state theme toggles"

extra88 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:57:38 +0000

Honoring the dark/light color scheme set on the device might be a requirement in some cases (I haven't seen a straight answer about it for the EAA) but it is a good accessibility practice.

Including a toggle in an app/site UI so users can choose to not use their device setting is an extra.

New comment by extra88 in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

extra88 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:15:28 +0000

I can see it, the Sign Up dialog has a Close button.

New comment by extra88 in "HTML Can Do That"

extra88 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:48:30 +0000

What dialog, the examples in the article? It doesn't have any dialogs that use `command="show-modal"`, only "show-popover".

Here's an example of "show-modal". It also has an opacity transition.

https://codepen.io/ccwilcox/pen/vEKXeER/b705840fccd607237a4e...

New comment by extra88 in "HTML Can Do That"

extra88 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:58:34 +0000

Sure it does. Open a modal

New comment by extra88 in "HTML Can Do That"

extra88 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:47:45 +0000

That's not what it's for, that's solved by showing the link when it's focused.

My guess is there was a desire to make Find-in-page automatically expand

elements and someone realized they could make it also work for custom disclosure widgets by giving the boolean attribute `hidden` an optional value.

New comment by extra88 in "HTML Can Do That"

extra88 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:43:13 +0000

That's fine, everything doesn't have to look the same everywhere. It does matter when there's functionality a site relies on but it's not available in one out more browser/OS combinations.

New comment by extra88 in "HTML Can Do That"

extra88 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:33:27 +0000

CSS now also has `reading-flow` to instruct the browser to change the reading order to match the visual order created by Flex or Grid. Unfortunately, not all browsers support it and it has some limitations.

New comment by extra88 in "HTML Can Do That"

extra88 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:23:37 +0000

All current browsers support anchor positioning including popover buttons being the implicit anchor. However, the anchor positioning polyfill does not support this, it requires an explicit anchor-name.

New comment by extra88 in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"

extra88 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:57:53 +0000

It is significant because cancer is much more detectable today than in 1956-80, both because of better tests and more testing being conducted. In that earlier era, if you knew you had cancer, it was likely because it was already bad.

I also expect that of the 39.2% of the population, the cancer is diagnosed much later in life than it was for the 91 movie crew members, I doubt 41% of the crew was over 50 in 1956.

New comment by extra88 in "A directory of people who love RSS"

extra88 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:36:42 +0000

On iOS, the filled-in ones are all in colors set by the font but in macOS Safari they inherit the text `color`.

New comment by extra88 in "How to Block Some of the Bots"

extra88 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:04:39 +0000

I have a personal site on a shared host that was recently suspended for excessive CPU use caused by incessant AI bot crawling. I don't have a problem with crawling per se, there's just so many and they're so bad at it.

New comment by extra88 in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

extra88 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:18:41 +0000

Same. Also, proper names should be excluded entirely; the only "Advanced" one I got wrong was a place name.

New comment by extra88 in "The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd"

extra88 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:42:20 +0000

Their "where is it" data is from https://www.justwatch.com/ maybe that site has its own watchlist feature?

New comment by extra88 in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

extra88 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:46:00 +0000

That's not what your original message was about and please don't invent quotes that are not what I wrote or anything like what I wrote. You wrote:

> The iTunes movie store is not friendly outside of the Apple ecosystem. Making the entire idea not really affordable since you need a expensive electronic device to utilize it sanely. Might as well find another way to get to it at that point.

I pointed out that buying a movie from Apple does not require an expensive device and does not require buying any hardware from the Apple ecosystem.

You ignored the facts and kept going on about having to buy expensive Apple hardware, which it isn't and you don't.

You moved the goalposts by requiring not only that purchases not require hardware that's expensive or from Apple, you added that it must not be revocable or streamed and must work on Linux.

I am not advocating for the iTunes store or any other source for buying media, I lost interest in owning TV or movies long ago, I was just providing factual information about what doing so requires.

New comment by extra88 in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

extra88 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:38:57 +0000

You're moving goalposts and ignoring what I wrote. An Apple TV box is not expensive and you can use even cheaper streaming devices to buy and watch instead.

New comment by extra88 in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

extra88 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:15:55 +0000

MSRP of an Apple TV device is $129. The iPhone's market share in the U.S. is already over 60%. But neither matters because the Apple TV app is available on basically everything and can be used to buy movies.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/119890

New comment by extra88 in "The Website Specification"

extra88 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:01:50 +0000

How would you avoid that? How would someone exploit that information? The whole point of the other auth means are that they're more secure.

New comment by extra88 in "The Website Specification"

extra88 — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:50:46 +0000

> many sites that have a form with only one input don't automatically focus on it.

That's reasonable to do when that form is the reason a page exists but otherwise it's best to not mess with the user's focus.