Web Standards

September 14
The browser’s main thread is expensive
Splitting, batching, and offloading work to keep every frame under 10 milliseconds.
September 11
Make your logo brighter than white
A tool for gain-map JPEGs, plus a CSS trick for text past plain white.
September 10
What’s new in Chrome 153
Capability elements, single-axis scroll containers, and joint iteration.
September 9
You don’t need initial-scale in your HTML
Two authors landed on the same viewport meta element finding hours apart.
September 8
Container style queries and advanced attr(): rethinking how to wire up my components in CSS
Data attributes become typed CSS values, and one variable rescales a whole card.
September 7
Submit your proposals for Interop 2027
What browsers look for: a stable spec, automated tests, and evidence of real pain.
September 4
Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!
Canvas, contenteditable, and textarea compared for building an editor in the browser.

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.
June 18
Context-aware headings in HTML
How headingoffset shifts heading levels in the accessibility tree without changing tags.

September 11
Make your logo brighter than white
A tool for gain-map JPEGs, plus a CSS trick for text past plain white.
September 8
Container style queries and advanced attr(): rethinking how to wire up my components in CSS
Data attributes become typed CSS values, and one variable rescales a whole card.
September 3
Feature detecting “undetectable” CSS features with @supports named-feature()
The CSS Working Group’s answer to detecting behavior changes, not just parsing.
September 1
Modern Web Guidance as a starting point for my own token skills: getting agents to write better CSS
A Baseline-aware skillset from Google, extended with project-specific CSS rules and fallbacks.
August 28
Making a long list fast: content-visibility vs. virtualization
Why unmounting rows costs you find-in-page, anchor links, focus, and per-card state.
August 26
Balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance
Five ways to avoid an orphaned item on the last flex line, from container queries to one property.
August 17
Ask a nerd: can emails include dark and light mode themes?
Only 42% of email clients support prefers-color-scheme, and Gmail inverts colors on its own.

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.
August 11
Source maps or not?
When npm packages actually need them, and how much install size they cost.
July 17
Do we still need build tools?
A look at which CSS and JS tooling still earns its place in 2026.
July 16
Announcing TypeScript 7.0
A native Go port delivering 8-12x faster builds and lower memory use.

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.

September 14
The browser’s main thread is expensive
Splitting, batching, and offloading work to keep every frame under 10 milliseconds.
September 10
What’s new in Chrome 153
Capability elements, single-axis scroll containers, and joint iteration.
September 9
You don’t need initial-scale in your HTML
Two authors landed on the same viewport meta element finding hours apart.
September 7
Submit your proposals for Interop 2027
What browsers look for: a stable spec, automated tests, and evidence of real pain.
September 2
Firefox 155 release notes for developers
attr() for any property, the progress() and alpha() functions, font-width, and Promise.allKeyed().
August 27
What’s new in Chrome 152
Pseudo-element events, device performance tiers, connection allowlists, and relative alpha.
August 25
Intent to ship: JPEG XL
Firefox ships the format with the Rust jxl-rs decoder, progressive rendering, and lossless wins.