Hidde de Vries
hidde.blog · Personal blog · on HN since 2022
Hidde de Vries writes about web accessibility, HTML semantics, and the open web, including the popover attribute and dialogs.
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- 1Trains Are Offices2 people · 6 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Semantics and the popover attribute: what to use when?2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 3Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?1 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 4Common accessibility issues that you can fix today1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 5Clippy Returned (As an Unnecessary "AI")1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 6Dialogs, modality and popovers seem similar. How are they different?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 7I'm back to building my own digital music collection1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 8Ableist Interactions1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 9How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 10Data-informed flex-grow for illustration purposes1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11Positioning Anchored Popovers1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 12Better Accessible Names1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13The web doesn’t have version numbers1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 14Yes, let's teach LLMs accessibility, but also the companies using them1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15"AI" and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
extra88 · 2023-06-13
*popover attribute
https://hidde.blog/popover-semantics/