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Tony Ennis discusses the evolution and benefits of HTML in web development.

Tony Ennis joins me to talk about how websites can be built with simplicity and power using new html and browser standards. ================== EPISODE LINKS Tony on X: https://x.com/tonyennis Html First: https://html-first.com Mini JS: https://mini-js.com Base Styles: https://base-styles.com Tony's talk at big Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aknX6xq8Vfg Una at Google IO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCIStB6y8s ================== CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro to Tony 00:34 Tony's work at Really Good Software 02:17 "My whole thing though is ..." 05:03 The Platform and a Stylesheet talk 07:18 Html tag list 07:26 Una and the Chrome dev team making progress 09:10 Popovers 11:56 New UI Elements in Html 2023 vs 2025 12:34 Modal 15:48 select with selectedcontent tag 16:27 Multi-selects (they are still bad, but working on it) 16:50 datalist (autocomplete) 20:22 Async in HTML (replacing htmx?) 28:57 Where React is preferred 34:40 The Front-end spectrum -- Mini JS 45:52 Mini-js code example 50:43 Laz on why html is great at UI 52:30 Why a five-year-old can learn html 55:21 Building mobile apps with React Native and webviews 59:50 Server-driven web apps 1:05:45 Base styles (unreleased…

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