Great story from Chris Zacharias about slipping a browser support banner into production on YouTube that probably did more to drive down usage of that browser than the collective public whining of web developers at conferences.
Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to? How would users react? Would they revolt against YouTube? Would they mail death threats to our team like had happened in the past? Or would they suddenly become loud advocates of modern browsers? We openly daydreamed about cubicle workers around the world suddenly inventing creative “business” reasons for needing upgraded browsers.
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
These days we really frown on the idea of a “this website only works in X” style messaging, and rightfully so, but back then we really did need to be a little extra to get IE 6 gone.
Chris, nice experiment with the posts without a title :)
How about you make the whole teaser text clickable, or even only the […] in the end? Right now I have to click the date, which feels a bit unnatural. Just a thought.
Yeah maybe!
“Block links” are TRICKY.
https://css-tricks.com/block-links-the-search-for-a-perfect-solution/
I don’t wanna just slap an anchor link all around it, so I gotta wrap my mind around the best solutions again.
Interesting. The solution proposed in that article with JavaScript wouldn‘t be for me, as I like to use special keys+click when I want to open a link in a new tab.
How about a simple aria-label attribute on the link? As far as I know that hides the textContent of the link from screen readers. And regarding the selectable text: as a user I‘d simply visit the article and then select the text.