Squarespace and web standards: how we helped bring HTML video and audio lazy loading to today’s browsers

“How We Helped Bring HTML Video & Audio Lazy Loading to Today’s Browsers” next to HTML Living Standard page dated 23 March 2026 with the loading attribute spec.

Scott Jehl describes how Squarespace engineers proposed loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements, worked with WHATWG, wrote Web Platform Tests, and collaborated with Mozilla, Apple, and Chromium teams to ship the feature as an official standard on March 23, 2026.

engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2026/squarespace-and-web-standards-how-we-helped-bring-html-video-and-audio-lazy-loading-to-todays-browsers