Web Standards

August 21
My HTML boilerplate in 2026
A commented head section with text scaling, SVG favicons, markdown alternates, and fediverse tags.
August 20
Field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel
An interactive walkthrough of the waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel.
August 19
The case for tri-state dark mode toggles
A reply to Lea Verou: why the system option still earns its place in a theme switcher.
August 18
Firefox 154 release notes for developers
sibling-index(), text-box-trim, four new Iterator methods, and unprefixed line-clamp behind a flag.
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.
August 14
Progressive Web Apps – mostly – rock
What already beats native apps, and what iOS and install prompts still get wrong.
August 13
Five best practices for preventing chaos in Tailwind CSS
Design tokens, class ordering, and fixed component variants keep utility-first CSS readable.

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.
June 5
The website specification
A platform-agnostic reference of features every quality website should have.
May 26
Declarative partial updates
New web platform APIs for inserting HTML out of order into specific document locations.
May 14
The HTML Sanitizer API
Browser-native XSS-safe HTML insertion without DOMPurify or other libraries.

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.
August 13
Five best practices for preventing chaos in Tailwind CSS
Design tokens, class ordering, and fixed component variants keep utility-first CSS readable.
August 10
State of CSS 2026 survey results
Anchor positioning wins the year, while AI writes just 28% of CSS.
August 6
Styling the navigation: declarative route and navigation matching in CSS
A proposed spec to style navigation and route transitions without JavaScript.
August 5
3D CSS guide: perspective, preserve-3d and translateZ
Build real 3D scenes in the browser with six Baseline CSS properties.
August 4
Liquid Glass 2.0 in CSS (Aqua’s revenge)
Recreating Apple’s refined Aqua look in pure CSS, with a caution on readability.
August 3
CSS infinity use cases
Creative uses of the infinity value for radius, z-index, frozen animations, and more.

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 15
Shaders, a design platform for WebGPU effects
Build GPU visuals across frameworks without writing any shader code.
July 10
What’s new in ECMAScript 2026
A tour of the new array, error, math, and iterator methods landing in the spec.
June 22
Releasing Babel 8 today: ESM-only, drop ES5 default, and a smooth migration path
ESM-only, Node.js 22+, modern browser target, and assumptions over loose and spec.

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.

August 18
Firefox 154 release notes for developers
sibling-index(), text-box-trim, four new Iterator methods, and unprefixed line-clamp behind a flag.
August 14
Progressive Web Apps – mostly – rock
What already beats native apps, and what iOS and install prompts still get wrong.
July 29
What’s new in Chrome 151
Media capture element, declarative slot assignment, and soft-navigation metrics.
July 28
WebKit features for Safari 26.6
JS String Builtins in streaming WebAssembly compilation, plus eight bug fixes.
July 27
Cross-Origin Storage API: stop downloading twice
A proposed API to store big files by hash and share them across origins.
July 22
Firefox 153 release notes for developers
Intl.Locale info methods, IndexedDB getAllRecords(), source phase imports, and WebAssembly JSPI.
July 14
In defense of polyfills
Why fallback code helps the web while the standards process catches up.