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I Can't Believe It's Not JavaScript!

Presentation byJemima Abu

When building interactive features on a webpage, JavaScript is usually the way to go. However, with great JavaScript dependencies comes great website instability. Even a minor undefined element can cause your entire webpage to crash. That’s where going back to the basics comes in. Thanks to modern Web APIs, it’s now possible to reduce JavaScript dependency on a website by swapping out JS components for their native HTML element or CSS feature counterparts. In this talk, we’ll take a look at how to use HTML and CSS to build simpler alternatives to popular JavaScript components such as accordions, modals, scroll transitions, carousels etc We’ll also take a look at the performance and accessibility benefits and real-life applications and use-cases of these components.

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Javascript evolution has sped up (a lot) in recent years and event the most veterans developers find it hard to keep up with the latest trends. This meetup group aims to bring you monthly bite-sized updates on the world of Javascript along with a healthy dose of nice people, beer and pizza.

  • Please use your full name when registering, as some of our venues require a full list of attendees beforehand. You have an idea and you want to be a speaker?

We are always looking for more speakers - submit your talk here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFaatfveOUbrmer47jYb5J4J4ttxAFc1CgTjUDltBXmDOJmg/viewform)

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Forms Are Only Logical!

Forms are the lifeblood of the Web – the simplest, most common method… Hang on, you've heard this somewhere before.

Anyway, they still suck most of the time, but those simple widgets for interacting with a form can be surprisingly powerful.

In this talk, you will learn how cunning use of form controls, particularly radio buttons, together with some sneaky CSS can recreate common widgets without a single line of Javascript!

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I Can't Believe It's Not JavaScript!

Presentation byJemima Abu

When building interactive features on a webpage, JavaScript is usually the way to go. However, with great JavaScript dependencies comes great website instability. Even a minor undefined element can cause your entire webpage to crash. That’s where going back to the basics comes in. Thanks to modern Web APIs, it’s now possible to reduce JavaScript dependency on a website by swapping out JS components for their native HTML element or CSS feature counterparts. In this talk, we’ll take a look at how to use HTML and CSS to build simpler alternatives to popular JavaScript components such as accordions, modals, scroll transitions, carousels etc We’ll also take a look at the performance and accessibility benefits and real-life applications and use-cases of these components.

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  • Please use your full name when registering, as some of our venues require a full list of attendees beforehand. You have an idea and you want to be a speaker?

We are always looking for more speakers - submit your talk here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFaatfveOUbrmer47jYb5J4J4ttxAFc1CgTjUDltBXmDOJmg/viewform)

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Can I tell you about HTML and how much you don't need this nasty JavaScript with help of new shiny Invokers?

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• Future of interactive elements and perspectives of adoption

• Missing link: declarative way to setup interactions

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Can I tell you about HTML and how much you don't need this nasty JavaScript with help of new shiny Invokers?

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  • Interactive elements in HTML

  • Open UI initiative: what, where and why

  • Future of interactive elements and perspectives of adoption

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Forms Are Only Logical!

Forms are the lifeblood of the Web – the simplest, most common method… Hang on, you've heard this somewhere before.

Anyway, they still suck most of the time, but those simple widgets for interacting with a form can be surprisingly powerful.

In this talk, you will learn how cunning use of form controls, particularly radio buttons, together with some sneaky CSS can recreate common widgets without a single line of Javascript!

The talk is intended to encourage lateral thinking in the way you can manipulate the technologies you can often take for granted, and create lightweight interface widgets without relying on DOM manipulating frameworks or third-party plugins.

Along the way, you will also explore a brief meditation on how form controls can even be combined to create logic gates, leading to the frankly perverted idea that we could build an entire computer in HTML and CSS, and how, as amazing as that concept would be, anyone who ever did it should probably be locked up for the good of humanity.

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Join our community today!

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