Hidde de Vries
Freelance
Hidde de Vries
Freelance
How popovers are about to become a whole lot easier to build
Our design systems commonly feature components that show on top of other content: tooltips, date pickers, menus and teaching UI, to name just a few. Proposed web platform features are about to make building these “popovers” a whole lot easier. You might not even need JavaScript. In this talk, you’ll learn all about the upcoming ‘popover’ attribute, when to use modality and access to the top layer.
About
Hidde (@hdv) is a freelance front-end and accessibility specialist, currently working in the NL Design System team at the Dutch government. At the W3C, he participates in the W3C’s Open UI Community Group and is an Invited Expert at the CSS Working Group.
Hidde is a generalist with over a decade of experience building websites. His focus has been mostly on end users: web accessibility, performance and usability. His favourite programming language is CSS and he strongly believes in a web that puts people first. Hidde writes about these things and more on hidde.blog. In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing applications of our decade.