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Re: Accordion design patterns

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From: Steve Green
Date: Jun 16, 2023 6:36AM

I really like how Scott does such in-depth testing, but his articles always reach the same conclusion. If you want a website to work on a wide variety of platforms, you can't use most of the important "new" HTML elements or ARIA roles created in the last ten years or so, that we have been waiting so long for. It's the same with the <dialog> element, role="tooltip" and others. You have to wonder if they will ever be properly supported.

It almost makes me yearn for the good old days of browser-specific hacks (remember the "underscore hack", the "holly hack", the "asterisk hack" etc.?). At least we could code things properly and target the hacks at the crappy user agents that don't support standards properly. Remember how we used to refer to Chrome, Firefox and Safari as being standards compliant (as opposed to Internet Explorer, which wasn't). It seems that nothing is now. Such is progress.

Steve