Front End Study Hall #046 was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2026-02-12.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2026-02-12-front-end-study-hall

Front End Study Hall #046

Feb 12, 2026

Participants

• Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
• Template:btrem https://btrem.com/
• capjamesg https://jamesg.blog
• Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
• benji https://benji.dog
• Tantek Çelik (site still down during this call :/ )
• Loke https://loke-artemis.neocities.org/
• jo
• Emily N
• Eric M

Joe's Background

• https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1991SepOct/0001.html is the first (non-test) email from the original "www-interest" mailing list, a "Listserv"
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Links for discussion culled from. Front_End_Study_Hall

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/autocapitalize
• https://ericwbailey.website/published/how-an-accessibility-designer-adds-keyboard-shortcuts-to-a-web-app/
• https://www.projectwallace.com/the-css-selection/2026
• https://frontendmasters.com/blog/performance-optimized-video-embeds-with-zero-javascript/
• https://css-tricks.com/how-to-style-the-new-search-text-and-other-highlight-pseudo-elements/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color
• https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/
• https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/
• https://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Creating+Accessible+Flowcharts
• https://bkardell.com/blog/SecretLifeOfCustomElements.html
• https://css-tricks.com/that-time-i-tried-explaining-html-and-css-to-my-5-year-old-niece/
• https://cassidoo.co/post/pause-css-animation/
• https://www.nicchan.me/
• https://artlung.com/blog/2026/02/09/mildly-dynamic/
• https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-create-a-css-only-elastic-text-effect/
• https://matuzo.at/blog/2026/geolocation-element

Interop 2026 came out!

• https://foolip.github.io/interop-reactions/
• https://wpt.fyi/interop-2026
  • container queries
  • attr() - advanced usage of data points
  • public part github, decision making process is a weekly video call
  • needs a spec, and needs a test
  • then, each issue group is asked to championed the list

• • MathML is perenially not making the cut, due to resources needed to addresse it
  • SVG should have a POSSE, says Joe
  • Accessibility testing is an active investigation
  • JPEG XL
  • Come to consensus

• • James: Custom highlights - text input - add a input color - boolean operators
    • CSS Custom Highlight API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Custom_Highlight_API
    • Bad Apple!! in CSS custom highlights (BlinkOn 17): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWTHxQWUreo
  • https://llmstxt.org/
• https://indieweb.org/large_language_model_traffic
• Cloudflare block training crawlers
  • https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/#ai-bots
  • https://aphyr.com/posts/403-blocking-claude
  • More info about bots / ai crawlers and a robots.txt example: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

• Show scrobbles of songs? Pulling data from last.fm and libre.fm
• Mildly interactive
• Emily - not a listserv person - early blog follower, listserv intermediary - to flickr in 2004 - flickr was a game and a chat app - early adopter - Milwaukee - throwing a photo into a chat and tagging - influence and affect in m life - photo nerds and digital photo nerds, and compuer nerds - art exhibits - the social aspect of the tag -

• hashtags turned evil?
• Phil Gyford's weeknote - craigslist broken mower was the way to meet folks
• newsweeklies used to be the way to find people - missed connections
• Upcoming.org
• Lanyrd.org
  • replacement https://noti.st/
    • has a "Pro" model: https://noti.st/pro - only has free and pro ($14/mo), no middle "I just want to support you a bit" level, like a Patron, $1/mo. Also $14/mo seems a bit pricy in contrast to say $5/mo for micro.blog for example.

• How to create a sustainable community service online?
  • Needs to be more mechanisms to do support

• • Bridgy
  • Artemis
    • sorting out a dollar a month - funding models
    • Funding models for the independent web
  • Sustainable business, "lifestyle company" / "lifestyle service"

• • Are there lifestyle businesses?
• Echofeed - Robb Knight's service - a poster - xpost to Mastodn and Bluesky ($5/month)
  • https://echofeed.app/ (I was wrong. Free or $25/year)
• OMG.LOL Microservice
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/
• Last.fm / Audioscrobbler was used for music discovery / central capture for music
• Tidal music discovery
• https://bearblog.dev/discover/
• https://openheart.fyi/
• https://interconnected.org

- Matt Webb has other people's cursors on his page and their country flag

https://interconnected.org/

• Other people exist! Ajax updates! WebSockets!
• https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/
  • Favicon changes when inactive
  • https://github.com/cloudflare/partykit