Flutterby™! : HTML can do that

HTML can do that

2026-08-19 19:56:17.939454+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Looks like it's time to rework some of the gross HTML hacks I've got going on Flutterby.net: Chris Burnell: HTML Can Do That

HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.

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#Comment Re: made: 2026-08-19 22:43:24.514703+02 by: Dan Lyke

I could believe that about pre-26 Safari. A lot of these things are recent, and Safari often seems the last to adopt.

#Comment Re: made: 2026-08-19 20:12:14.598331+02 by: markd

odd. some things don't work for me in pre-26 Safari. Granted, with javascript some things just don't work either, so I guess it's status-quo :-). (in particular the dialog and hidden fragment don't do anything. The newer popover does work.

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(You should probably use "Text" mode: URLs will be mostly recognized and linked, _underscore quoted_ text is looked up in a glossary, _underscore quoted_ (http://xyz.pdq) becomes a link, without the link in the parenthesis it becomes a <cite> tag. All <cite>ed text will point to the Flutterby knowledge base. Two enters (ie: a blank line) gets you a new paragraph, special treatment for paragraphs that are manually indented or start with "#" (as in "#include" or "#!/usr/bin/perl"), "/* " or ">" (as in a quoted message) or look like lists, or within a paragraph you can use a number of HTML tags:

p, img, br, hr, a, sub, sup, tt, i, b, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, cite, em, strong, code, samp, kbd, pre, blockquote, address, ol, dl, ul, dt, dd, li, dir, menu, table, tr, td, th

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