Rodney Lab Newsletter — April 2024Rodney Lab Newsletter — April 2024
🍭 Popover API #
Mozilla just released Firefox 125, with experimental support for the Popover API. With this new API now supported in the three major browsers, it’s a good time to consider using Popover for mobile menus, dialogues and more! Here are some resources to get you up to speed:
- Dialog dilemmas and modal mischief — excellent CSS Day talk from accessibility specialist Hidde de Vries on the Popover API and accessible dialogues (link opens in YouTube);
- Popover API Explainer — details on the new API from Open UI; and
- Popover Menu in 3 Lines of CSS — @jh3yy Tweet on how you can add an anchor positioned menu with just three lines of CSS, using the Popover API.
I have wanted to use this for a while, but was holding off for wider support. Excited to hear your thoughts!
🧑🏽💻 Follower Feedback — SvelteKit Fetch #
With
Svelte 5 expected soon,
you might be dusting off your SvelteKit sites, in anticipation. This post on
using fetch with SvelteKit
remains a popular one, so do have a look if this is something in SvelteKit that
you want a better grasp of. Also take a look at the
SvelteKit Form Example with 10 Mistakes to Avoid
and the other
SvelteKit Forms post which looks at the differences between +page.svelte, +page.ts and +page.server.ts.
📢 Fun Finds #
- Tools Typst — Typst, a Latex alternative, offers typesetting, and you might use it for scientific reports and creating presentation slides. A key selling point is being easier to learn than Latex. The team has also open-sourced some Rust text processing crates, which might be handy in your Rust projects.
- Supply Chain Security — cargo-vet: Rust tooling, which got a couple of mentions at the recent Rust Nation UK Conference. It is useful for assessing the risks posed by unsafe code blocks in third-party Rust crates. You can maintain your own, internal, record of correctness tested code, or rely on open source contributions from community members you trust. Of course, you can contribute your own analyses too!
- Organization Kanri — Kanri is a basic Kanban tool which I find handy for managing my to-do list locally. It is not as fully-featured as Trello, but is cross-platform and Tauri-based, so should have a smaller memory footprint than Electron-based alternatives.
👋🏽 Until next time! #
Hope there was something valuable in here for you. As always, reach out with feedback. Here are some links to recent content, which I hope you will find useful: