Web Standards

October 7
A flame needs three sine waves
From pencil sketches to a canvas match that strikes, burns, and flickers like a real one.
October 6
Transferring sibling-count() to a parent element
How to pass the number of children to a parent before children-count() arrives.
October 5
Developer Signals: shape what browsers build next
Vote for upcoming web features and share use cases that go straight to browser vendors.
October 2
The JavaScript midlife crisis
Rewriting tools in Rust, Go, and Zig makes them faster, but fewer developers can maintain them.
October 1
State of Devs 2026 survey results
Developers rely on AI for most of their code but stay skeptical, and 62% have faced burnout.
September 30
Firefox 157 release notes for developers
at-rule() in @supports, a chain value for overscroll-behavior, and Web Animations fixes.
September 29
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
GitHub’s Primer moved from CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules, cutting server rendering time by 55%.

September 22
Responsive iframes in Chrome 154
An embedded frame grows with its content, no postMessage height plumbing.
September 9
You don’t need initial-scale in your HTML
Two authors landed on the same viewport meta element finding hours apart.
September 4
Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!
Canvas, contenteditable, and textarea compared for building an editor in the browser.
August 24
A look at the <geolocation> HTML element and how it works
Chrome 144 ships a permission-friendly element with autolocate, watch, and a :granted pseudo-class.
August 21
My HTML boilerplate in 2026
A commented head section with text scaling, SVG favicons, markdown alternates, and fediverse tags.
July 24
Building an accessible modal dialog on the native
How showModal() handles focus, Escape, and animation so you don’t have to.
July 1
A11y.quest: 128 questions to level up your accessibility game
An interactive quiz to test and sharpen your web accessibility knowledge.

October 6
Transferring sibling-count() to a parent element
How to pass the number of children to a parent before children-count() arrives.
September 29
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
GitHub’s Primer moved from CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules, cutting server rendering time by 55%.
September 24
One SVG, nine posters: CSS link-parameters
An external SVG takes its colors from the page, and keeps its own when nothing is passed in.
September 23
The root scroller and how not to lose it
Nested scroll containers quietly take away keyboard scrolling, pull-to-refresh, and more.
September 22
Responsive iframes in Chrome 154
An embedded frame grows with its content, no postMessage height plumbing.
September 21
Better icon and label alignment
The lh unit keeps an icon next to the first line of a label that wraps.
September 18
Sidenotes with CSS anchor positioning
Notes can sit anywhere in the document and hold several blocks, still without JavaScript.

October 7
A flame needs three sine waves
From pencil sketches to a canvas match that strikes, burns, and flickers like a real one.
October 2
The JavaScript midlife crisis
Rewriting tools in Rust, Go, and Zig makes them faster, but fewer developers can maintain them.
September 17
Modern web types
A drop-in replacement for TypeScript’s DOM types with a single-engine threshold.
September 14
The browser’s main thread is expensive
Splitting, batching, and offloading work to keep every frame under 10 milliseconds.
September 4
Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!
Canvas, contenteditable, and textarea compared for building an editor in the browser.
August 31
Highlighting a range of text inside a form field
The Custom Highlight API finally reaches form controls thanks to OpaqueRange in Chromium 152.
August 12
How Baseline can help you ship less JavaScript
Five dependency clusters where platform features now replace npm packages.

July 24
Building an accessible modal dialog on the native
How showModal() handles focus, Escape, and animation so you don’t have to.
July 1
A11y.quest: 128 questions to level up your accessibility game
An interactive quiz to test and sharpen your web accessibility knowledge.
June 30
Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries
Accessible, composable color themes that adapt elevation to light and dark modes.
June 29
Your grid lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3
How balanced column heights break keyboard focus order, and how to fix it.
June 23
Improving card patterns with anchor positioning
A pseudo-element covers the card surface but stops short of the secondary actions.
June 18
Context-aware headings in HTML
How headingoffset shifts heading levels in the accessibility tree without changing tags.
June 5
The website specification
A platform-agnostic reference of features every quality website should have.

October 5
Developer Signals: shape what browsers build next
Vote for upcoming web features and share use cases that go straight to browser vendors.
September 30
Firefox 157 release notes for developers
at-rule() in @supports, a chain value for overscroll-behavior, and Web Animations fixes.
September 28
What’s new in Chrome 154
Decoration insets, tab semantics for scroll markers, and self-sizing frames.
September 25
Browsers situationship: when browsers agree but the spec doesn’t
Sometimes the spec moves toward the browsers, and that isn’t a failure of the process.
September 16
WebKit features in Safari 27
83 new features including customizable <select>, scroll anchoring, WebAssembly JSPI, and ariaNotify().
September 15
Firefox 156 release notes for developers
Substitution functions in DevTools, priority-preserving yields, and Promise.try() pass-through.
September 14
The browser’s main thread is expensive
Splitting, batching, and offloading work to keep every frame under 10 milliseconds.