This is a great read so far. Enjoying the blend of history and simple examples browser.engineering

And: a loathed fork

You've heard of OkLCH? Get ready for: OkLrCH. codepen.io/eeeps/pen/bN... (The little 'r' improves lightness gradients across the SDR range.)

I have become emotionally attached to the three remaining cookies.

Merry Christmas! This is your yearly reminder that mistletoes, uniquely among ALL known multicellular life, do not have working mitochondria. What the fuck? Biology is fake.

Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays! webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

You know it's been a minute since I blogged on the ol' company blog. What better time to pick that habit back up than uh the Friday uhhh before Christmas??? cloudinary.com/blog/hacktob...

Read Erika's beautiful description. Think about how you would describe this amazing photograph to a friend. The alt text is: "Image may contain Gail Graham Blazer Clothing Coat Jacket Formal Wear Suit Face Head Person and Photography"

Oh just validating my priors and thinking about essential vs inessential complexity whilst reading through the State of HTML `srcset` + `sizes` survey comments

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

U+2E1A HYPHEN WITH DIAERESIS is just a lil' guy ⸚

6 years of thinking I can make a better portfolio. 1 year of actually building it. My new portfolio is LIVE 🚀 Please, don't break anything! 👉 bruno-simon.com

This is horrific for all of the obvious structurally-racist bias perpetuation reasons and also: way too detailed/specific? Haven't these people read Understanding Comics??

Lazy passkey question: is there a way to log into things in non-Safari browsers using passkeys stored in Apple's Passwords.app, without having to get my phone out and scan a QR code? The iCloud Passwords Chrome extension isn't doin' it for me.

You too can make a tiny, fixed-width website in the year of our lord 2025 ⚡️ lynnandtonic.com

Speculation Rules on touch devices (where there's no hover) is a hard problem but it sounds like Chrome's making some good progress? htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

I think it's fair to criticize the Chromium project for apparently getting the initial cost/benefit prediction wrong on JPEG XL. But the fact that JPEG XL is moving forward anyway is a success to be celebrated in the consensus-forming process of the web platform! groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

As a pescatarian who lives all the way up and all the way to the left: - Blackened cod at Ursa Minor - Filled sourdough donut at Seabird Bakeshop - Butterscotch pudding at Acorn (in Denver) - Breakfeast at Hell's Backbone Grill (in Utah) - A single freaking hay-smoked carrot at Ælder (now Houlme)

Whomst amongst us has not saved $50 on a Black Friday ✨💰 deal 🤑✨, and felt a little thrill? @wil.to makes an unconventional proposal—but I must admit—I am intrigued. Deeper thrills await. wil.to/newsletters/...

JPEG XL in Chromium update: “[...] we would welcome contributions to integrate a performant and memory-safe JPEG XL decoder in Chromium. In order to enable it by default in Chromium we would need a commitment to long-term maintenance.” groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

Here’s a recording of this “Two-Phase View Transition” concept. The flow goes like this: - Click a link - VT into the loading screen - Fetch the data of the new page in the background - VT into the new page

There are many goodies that are newly and widely available in Baseline. backdrop-filter is so much fun to work with and I am obsessed with AVIF images and the ability to animate from display: none with @starting-style. And how easy is it to lazy load images now? web.dev/articles/bas...

Likes are now florps and the masonry switch will be `display: grid-lanes`

At the CSS WG meeting, we're discussing possibly natively doing fit-text in CSS. Send us your use cases (with screenshots/links)! Do you ever need to fit multi-line text? Do you ever need to fit non-text inline elements (e.g. icons)? Do you adjust font-size, letter-spacing, or both?

That is an *incredible* approximately five-foot-tall cardboard bug.

Responsive typography is getting so much simpler. This already works in a couple browsers, and the fallback is minimal: --progress: progress(100vi, 320px, 1200px); font-size: calc-mix(var(--progress), 1rem, 1.25rem); But that will get even better… #CSS codepen.io/editor/miria...

I partnered with Fable to evaluate their pay-per-project offering. Its an amazing way to get insights into how disabled people actually use your service, and what they think about it. ericwbailey.website/published/ev...

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on unflagging TC39 Stage 3 Temporal in V8 today. Heading for Chrome 144 🎉 By many metrics this new date-time API is the single biggest change to JS ever 🔥 V8 uses Boa's temporal_rs by @jason-williams.co.uk Kevin Ness & Manish 👍

Finally telling the story of what happened when some rando turned me into a meme coin and the Twitter community full of AI-generated art featuring me that sprang up to promote it. cloudfour.com/thinks/that-...

Casper’s spoopy but Casper (2000) Track 1 is: *spooky*. youtu.be/henyMRqMBws?...

building bauble ianthehenry.com/posts/bauble...

Well this is lovely! visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...

For the last year+ I’ve worked with my little Supernote sitting on the desk in front of my big fifteen-year-old cracked-plastic Cintiq, pretending I live in a computing world that grew out of notebooks and whiteboards rather than typewriters. And it makes me happy.

If you use Cloudinary and VS Code, you should check out cloudinary.com/blog/cloudin...

Largest Contentful Paint (from Core Web Vitals) is now available in Safari Technology Preview. webkit.org/blog/17504/r...

I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true. ➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari ➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive ➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't ➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF ⬇️ and more jakearchibald.com/2025/present...

At last, today is the day. I am immensely proud to announce that JavaScript for Everyone is here. Tell a friend, tell a Slack channel — write it on a slip of paper, fold it once, and slide it across your boss' desk without breaking eye contact. _It's time to get weird._ piccalil.li/javascript-f...

It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone! The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it. Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...

👀 @giannirosato.com has been producing some fantastic image compression tools giannirosato.com/blog/post/oa...

This is it. 86,791 words. 836 emdashes. 625 `const`, 141 `let`, 16 `var`. One (1) reference to the pause music from Battletoads for the NES. Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.

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

Folks who want to see JPEG-XL supported in more browsers, what is it about the format that attracts you to its use on the web?

Safari 26 on Sequoia: buggy and gets laggy as heck for me. Had to switch from Compact to Separate tabs because I often stopped being able to close tabs w/ mouse. Scrolling, interacting with the URL bar, & DevTools often getting multiple-second lags until I close all tabs and quit/re-open. Just me?

If you work in web standards, you RFC 2119 MUST read this article. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

🔥 New blog post! Covering, among other things: - Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough - How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio - Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback - How to prioritize user needs lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...

Ever *have* an image file but *want* a URL? In a click/tap or two? There are many ways to accomplish this, but here's mine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiJt...

Interop 2026 is now open for proposals! This is your chance to tell browser-makers which well-defined, well-tested features you wish had better support across browsers. ⬇️ Here's how ⬇️ github.com/web-platform...

What if some client-side browsing features were part of the web platform? Direct CSS reflection of URL state, snappy pending/optimistic UI, URL-to-scroll-snap binding, and some basic same-document navigation use cases, with JS being only an option. github.com/WICG/declara... Inviting feedback!

I'm still trying to figure out my stance towards AI-powered coding tools generally, but this one? Specifically? Nooooooooppppppe nope nope nope no uh-uh no way josé github.blog/changelog/20...

Alright, this is it. Today is the your last chance to snag a spot in the course at the lowest possible price. Head on over to piccalil.li/javascript-f... to lock it in, and I'll see you in the Discord. Also, this reminder comes with a little formal announcement: wil.to/newsletters/...