Web Standards

July 27
Cross-Origin Storage API: stop downloading twice
A proposed API to store big files by hash and share them across origins.
July 24
Building an accessible modal dialog on the native
How showModal() handles focus, Escape, and animation so you don’t have to.
July 23
Rebuilding FIFA standings layout with CSS subgrid
How subgrid and negative grid lines recreate the tournament bracket.
July 22
Firefox 153 release notes for developers
Intl.Locale info methods, IndexedDB getAllRecords(), source phase imports, and WebAssembly JSPI.
July 21
SVG filters on type
Recreating letterpress and printing effects on web type with filter primitives.
July 20
Playing with text-fit
A hands-on look at the new CSS property for auto-scaling type.
July 17
Do we still need build tools?
A look at which CSS and JS tooling still earns its place in 2026.

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.
April 30
The web is fun again: first experiments with HTML in <canvas>
An experimental Chrome API that draws real HTML into <canvas>, with pixel and shader effects.

July 23
Rebuilding FIFA standings layout with CSS subgrid
How subgrid and negative grid lines recreate the tournament bracket.
July 20
Playing with text-fit
A hands-on look at the new CSS property for auto-scaling type.
July 17
Do we still need build tools?
A look at which CSS and JS tooling still earns its place in 2026.
July 9
Getting started with anchor positioning
Attaching tooltips and dropdowns to targets, with fallbacks for overflow and browser support.
July 7
Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix
Mapping the time of day to four colour stages that blend smoothly as hours pass.
July 6
The Goldilocks customizable select height
Sizing the picker with anchor positioning and calc-size() so it fits just right.
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.

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.
June 15
CSS reacts, JS just listens
A tiny library that exposes runtime state to CSS through custom properties.
June 11
The quiet problem with unnecessary async
Marking sync code as async changes its contract and propagates Promises through callers.

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.

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.
July 8
Introducing Baseline Alerts
Subscribe to notifications when web features change status across browsers.
July 3
Introducing the Safari MCP server for web developers
Let AI agents see how your code actually renders in Safari, all running locally.
July 2
What’s new in Chrome 150
System accent colors, polygon rounding, animatable zoom, url() modifiers, and text-fit.
June 17
Firefox 152 release notes for developers
field-sizing for form controls, Notification actions, and pointer lock unadjustedMovement.