From image sharing sites to online stores, image galleries are a common pattern on the web. Images can be very data heavy, and loading images can make the page take a long time to load. In addition, users have high expectations around the usability of galleries, so it’s common to add additional libraries that further increase page size.
The web platform has added support for many of the underlying pieces of an image gallery. So, what does it look like to code an image gallery with Baseline features? This demo showcases a variety of techniques that you can use to do just that.
Images can be some of the largest assets you ask your users to download, and image galleries by their nature often have many images. This demo uses a couple of Baseline features to help reduce the performance impact on users.
@starting-stylebackdrop-filter for better readabilitySee the Pen Baseline Zoo by @web-dot-dev on CodePen.
<dialog> and popover
Elements and windows that pop up on the screen are one of the most common patterns on the web. With use cases spanning from alerts and brief forms requesting data, to the now ubiquitous cookie settings prompt, these layered UI patterns are used frequently by developers.
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