Stephanie is a design technologist with a passion for developer relations. She’s currently a Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge Developer Experiences team leading developer evangelism with a focus on design and front-end web platform capabilities. She also leads Web We Want, a cross browser and cross company initiative that at its core, acts as a community driven backlog of missing developer tools and web platform capabilities. She comes from a background in visual and user experience design and has been tinkering on the web for the last 18 years. When not online, she’s usually plotting her way back to Scotland or biking in the pacific northwest or the Sonoran desert, depending on the time of year.
Dual-screen devices have been on the market for nearly three years. In that time new web platform technologies have been built with developer feedback to enable layout on the web that adapts to these devices. These web platform capabilities integrate with existing concepts, such as the viewport and media queries, so that developers and designers can spend more time ideating about how to leverage two displays to create enhanced experiences rather than learning a new set of code to build them.
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Working with native HTML Form Controls has been such a pain point for web developers, from styling to extending them, the limitations are so great that countless dev hours have been spent recreating them. But why are form controls so difficult to work with?
In this article, Stephanie dives into the past by going back to the beginning of HTML and tracing the evolution of form controls through to the present and the current state of working with them. She shares her thoughts and takes a glimpse at what the future holds for working with these essential pieces of the web.
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