Eric gifting us together with his analysis on all the varied issues that anchors (not hyperlinks) do when they’re in :focus.
Seems, there’s lots!
That’s an understatement! That is an unimaginable quantity of labor, even when Eric calls it “dry as a toast sandwich.” Boring ain’t all the time a foul factor. Let me merely drop in a pen that Dave put collectively pulling all of Eric’s findings right into a desk organized to check the completely different behaviors between working methods — and extra tables for every particular platform — as a result of I believe it helps body Eric’s factors.
That actually is lots! However why on Earth undergo the difficulty of documenting all of this?
All the beforehand documented conduct must be in-built JavaScript, since we have to go the artificial hyperlink route. It additionally implies that it’s code we have to put aside time and sources to take care of.
That additionally assumes that’s even doable to recreate each anticipated function in JavaScript, which isn’t true. It additionally leaves out the psychological gymnastics required to make a enterprise case for prioritizing engineering efforts to re-make every function.
There’s the rub! These are the behaviors you’re gonna must mimic and preserve if veering away from semantic, native internet components. So what Eric is generously offering is maybe an final argument in opposition to adopting frameworks — or rolling some customized system — that purposely summary the accessible elements of the net, usually in favor of DX.
As with something, there’s greater than meets the attention to all this. Eric’s acquired an exhaustive checklist on the finish there that calls out all the varied limitations of his analysis. Most of these notes sound to me like there are a lot of, many different platforms, edge instances, person agent variations, assistive applied sciences, and issues that may be taken into consideration, that means we may very well be accountable for a for much longer checklist of behaviors than what’s already there.
And sure, this sweatshirt is unimaginable. Certainly.
