Well this has been an interesting Christmas. I've been in hospital since 2pm because I ate my first two bites of a turkey batch (sandwich) and it got stuck half way down my esophagus! Just had surgery to remove it. 😅 Very grateful to NHS staff working Christmas day.

Oh I forgot to mention on here, Every Layout is doing the annual 50% discount too! every-layout.dev

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

Note to self: when minuting for the CSSWG call, make sure the room is warm enough that your fingers aren't too cold to type. 😅

There's a new #CSS Working Group poll to get feedback on different names for the infamous 'Pinterest' layout. - Since it uses many of the grid-* properties, `grid` will be in the name somewhere - We don't use metaphors in CSS names, so `masonry` is not listed here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If I seemed a bit quiet the last month, it's because I lost my grandma. We had the funeral on Wednesday. I don't have a dad and it was both my mum and grandparents who I lived with and who raised me, growing up. How I'd love to be that little boy again giving her a hug.

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most. So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion. interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

A double focus ring is really useful in general but especially so with complex, themed systems. Eric Bailey shows us how to develop a really smart system, using modern CSS. piccalil.li/blog/taking-...

You should come to @londonwebstandards.org #sotb2026 Early bird tickets are £70 And if you can’t afford it apply for a diversity ticket 2026.stateofthebrowser.com

I got to speak at our internal BBC conference, today, about what I've been involved with in the CSSWG: the new meta tag for websites to opt-in to respecting the text size accessibility settings in iOS and Android.

I've created a proposal for a new CSS style query or pseudo-class that gets the current 'used color scheme'. "But don't we already have @media (prefers-color-scheme)?" Yes, but authors can override the color scheme and the media query can't know that. github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

🤩 View Transitions excitement!

Follow me on Youtube where I'm trying to post more consistently 🙂 www.youtube.com/@UnaKravets Thank you ❤️

Had a wonderful day at @frontendnorth.bsky.social. Thanks a lot for having me. If you're interested in the slides to my talk, you can find them here: ichimnetz.com/slides/unwra... #FrontEndNorth

Had a blast at #FrontEndNorth yesterday. A lovely, friendly crowd, the other speakers were interesting and the organisers planned a brilliant mix of thought-provoking, uplifting, and inspiring creative talks, with a good dose of silliness. 📸 by @joshtumath.uk 1/4

A clip from my @cssday.nl talk in which I explain why we need alternatives to Big Tech youtu.be/cRYLA8Hohqg

That's the end of #FrontEndNorth. Thanks to everyone in the team for putting on a fantastic event! We really appreciate you!! @frontendnorth.bsky.social But anyway, our after party is at the national video game museum so smell you later!

Finally we end on @joehart.bsky.social who is part time developer, part time comedian. (And used to work at the BBC.) And the start of the talk was slightly delayed because he was taking a photo of us and somehow incorporating it into the talk. #FrontEndNorth

Next is @craigabbott.co.uk talking about making user centred experiences to make them accessible. The medical model of disability says oh a blind person can't go to the cinema because they can't see. The social model says they can't enjoy the cinema because they don't have AD. #FrontEndNorth

Really funny talk. If you get the chance to see @whitep4nth3r.com talk, do it. #FrontEndNorth

Next is @amyhupe.bsky.social who's currently working with us at the BBC. We love Amy so much! She's worked in GDS, BT and many other places. She's talking about systems of harm. @frontendnorth.bsky.social #FrontEndNorth

Next we have @whitep4nth3r.com who takes us back to a time when HTML 2.0 has just come out. Please wait while the dial up internet connects. @frontendnorth.bsky.social #FrontEndNorth

It's now post-lunch and @letorey.co.uk is MCing for the afternoon. The mic is doing wonders for his already booming voice. #FrontEndNorth @frontendnorth.bsky.social

Amy is talking about being inclusive by design. She's worked on providing a way of getting ID for people who don't have photo IDs like driving licenses, so that they can still interact with services that require identity verification. #FrontEndNorth @frontendnorth.bsky.social

This is the sort of layout that is possible when one combines @ichimnetz.com #CSS skills with @bell.bz cross-dominion communication skills. 🦄 S Y N E R G Y 👯‍♂️ @ #FrontEndNorth

One of our emcees @letorey.co.uk looking fabulous!

Yay next is @ichimnetz.com! He's going to talk about the wrapper component that we often use to constrain the max width of the page. We've all been doing this for years. #FrontEndNorth @frontendnorth.bsky.social

Next is @olu.online talking about building a better web. @frontendnorth.bsky.social #FrontEndNorth The W3C TAG have a principle that there is only one web and it is for everyone. Olu says there are many webs out there and they are all part of the one web.

First up we have @bell.bz talking about improving your work through better communication and collaboration. @frontendnorth.bsky.social

Woohoo it's time for the @frontendnorth.bsky.social conference run by wonderful people including @katiefenn.bsky.social! I'll be here live tweeting. I won't have time to write alt text for photos but I'll try to include all the relevant info in the post itself.

Unexpectedly, the CSSWG have accepted our proposal for a new <meta name=text-scale> tag!! This will change the initial font size based on the user's text size setting. Unfortunately it's going to become part of the boilerplate for every website you make! But will really improve a11y.

If you code websites, then you KNOW how it’s been to style form controls. Watch this #cssday talk from @ntim.bsky.social to learn why it’s been so hard, and how we are going to fix it for the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgSi... #css #webdev #formcontrols

We had an interesting CSSWG discussion yesterday about how the `&` selector should behave inside `@scope` - and I think we made a big improvement. Here's a quick explanation of the change. (the issue was raised by @kizu.dev) css.oddbird.net/scope/parent...

I was using anchor positioning with a pseudo-element, and wanted to transition it between anchors. Thought I'd run into a wall with it, but instead of chaning the position-anchor on the element itself, you can just update which element has the anchor-name... Code 👉 codepen.io/kevinpowell/...

I'll be there! Are you going?

Sad to learn that MFE is closing shop 😭 “Please keep supporting local events. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. ✌️” hits right in the feels. Thank you lads for all you’ve done for the community.

So why don’t you get yourself a ticket to @frontendnorth.bsky.social in two weeks time? We’re reyt friendly up here, and a bit different, too. We also have a diversity ticket programme, supported by some wonderful organisers in our wider community. Give us a chance!

If I understand this correctly, GDS in the UK are no longer allowed to do things like run their wonderful Design System Day conference. I sincerely hope that's not true. I love hearing from GDS about the wonderful contributions they've made to the web. www.thetimes.com/article/ac4d...

This kind of vaguely passive-aggressive interaction happens all the time in open-source, and it's easy enough for me to ignore. But I do wonder if a women or a person of color would maybe find it harder to move past something like this, just because their radar is more attuned to rejection.

APNG finally graduated from its MozillaWiki documentation to a proper standard: www.programmax.net/articles/png...

Regulators around the world are tackling mobile platform monopolies. But every time new laws like the EU’s DMA or the UK’s DMCC emerge to allow more competition, Apple and Google raise one predictable objection: “Security” Let’s unpack why that doesn’t hold up. 👇 1/19

Hey web people. We're still trying to solve how websites can't respond to the user's text size preference in their iOS/Android settings. We're proposing a new meta tag to put on our websites, like <meta viewport>: <meta name=text-scale content=scale> Any thoughts? github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

I would never consider myself a natural speaker... I always feel I have a long way to go. Speaking at CSS Day was sort of a dream come true, something I never imagined possible. I thought I should write about this experience in a personal heartfelt article: utilitybend.com/blog/css-day...

CSSWG members at #CSSDay (And we are missing some of our Chrome engineers who were already on a plane by the time this photo was taken)

I love #CSSDay. It brings together so many of the CSS Working Group to share talks on the newest CSS features being worked on! If it wasn't for this conference, I never would have had the encouragement to join the working group last year. A huge privilege to be alongside these incredible people.

Big thanks to CSS Day (@cssday.nl) for the kind invitation, such an honor to speak! ❤️ It was great meeting so many online friends in person and left feeling even more excited about what’s coming in CSS and the web ✨ My talk slides: www.figma.com/deck/NewdIWN... #cssday

The CSS Day 2025 photos are up at cssday.nl/2025/pix/pho... The interface is still a bit basic, but the photos are there for your downloading pleasure, especially if you had a team photo taken.

I vibe coded an airplane, wanna try a flight?

Closing off by following a presentation @css.cafe meetup. CSS in the News Room. So happy I still got to see a part of this! So creative. #csscafe #CSSDay . Very inspirational

Another successful #CSSDay in the books! I absolutely love this conference and the community around it 💜 High quality talks, deep conversations about web features, and reconnecting with everyone in person that I usually only see online. 🥰 Grateful for our little corner of the web dev community!