As a legal immigrant to the UK, I would just like to say that Farage is spewing lies. He wants to revoke benefits/welfare so that only UK born nationals can use access benefits. I already can't access public funds or benefits, and I pay an NHS surcharge on top of national insurance for the NHS.

Oct 14 Firefox 144 will ship JS-powered view transitions with `startViewTransition`. 🎉 Of course, this is only the first step because we're all waiting for cross-document view transitions, too, but I'm still very happy about view transitions being on their way to work everywhere.

Bootlicker.js leaves a bad taste in the mouth, no matter how you look at it: webpagetest.org/video/compare.ph…

Finally got around to writing a post detailing this work a bit more; CSSWG resolution CSS spec update WPT update Two WebKit PRs. And a blog post. Whew! frehner.me/blog/fixing-...

your regularly scheduled reminder not to let the triangle company host your projects

Hey just saw that the SVG Working Group is back together! Congrats! Note: The MathML Working Group is still going! We meet once a month, and would love to have all the browser vendors join and participate in our discussions.

For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles: I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs: sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...

Your Donations at Work: Funding Josh Matthews' Contributions to Servo servo.org/blog/2025/09...

Upvote this feature for Interop 2026: github.com/web-platform...

This is what’s wrong with the mobile web. - massive “download our app” callout - header taking up a good amount of real estate - ANOTHER DOWNLOAD OUR APP BANNER - fixed ad on the bottom - huge ads in between copy 😠

How useful is it for you to be able to style select elements? Is this something you've had to do before? Would you adopt the native browser API if it shipped cross-browser?

In 2025 we already have more PRs merged than in the whole of 2024! 2024 PRs: 1,771 2025 PRs: 1,983* *At the last count of the data this month.

Missed out on the first one (was chasing a grey phalarope in Llanelli), but I lucked out when a 2nd Red-necked Phalarope showed up in Cardiff, with 2 Grey Phalaropes keeping it company. This plus a Curlew Sandpiper at Slimbridge brings me to 200 lifers! #birdingwales

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Viewport behavior in Safari 26 is utterly broken. 🙄😭 Time to get Viewports into #Interop2026 because viewports on iOS have gotten only worse since I did the initial research in, *checks notes*, 2022 — github.com/web-platform...

As much as you shouldn't need to enable this just to use your OS, reduced transparency and/or increase contrast on macOS and iOS 26 does improve some aspects of the new liquid ass design system. The new switch design is still pretty awful though.

Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML <model> element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more. webkit.org/blog/17333/w...

📝 Fetch streams are great, but contrary to popular belief, they're not good for measuring upload/downloading progress. ⬇️ Here's why, and how to avoid the gotchas ⬇️ jakearchibald.com/2025/fetch-s...

If a UI element is interactive, exposed to AT, needs event listeners, needs role/aria customisation, and needs programmatic focus. It should be in HTML. It's frustrating this is a conversation that even needs to be had.

⌨️ Blog post: For anyone who has to deal with very long GitHub issues, a way to load ALL of the comments using a bookmarklet, updated for their new and much more cluttered markup. meyerweb.com/eric/thought...

Once again I'm gonna say, browsers should simply not allow this. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Latest newsletter just dropped: mailchi.mp/a29cf106982a... #sotb2026 #tickets #awesomePeople #codeOfConduct

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

Micro.blog beats Bluesky, Mastodon, and WordPress to adopting passkeys.

The missing link in JavaScript tooling Some thoughts on the fractured nature of our tools how we could unify them all. I feel like this would remove many barriers framework devs run into. marvinh.dev/blog/unifyin...

getting a lot of mileage out of this format recently

It never ceases to amaze me how much stuff there is on the web platform that needs more attention than it gets in practice, despite vendors spending tons already.

If you thought we were done with View Transitions, guess again! A feature Chrome is working on, is “Scoped View Transitions”, which allow you to scope a VT to a subtree of the DOM. This unlocks things like concurrent transitions and prevents layering issues. developer.chrome.com/blog/scoped-...

terrific post, to which i'll add a couple of related thoughts. first: a lot of developers, especially juniors, tend to assume that other people's code is better than theirs, and so using a dependency (rather than a snippet) makes their codebase better this is very much not the case

There's so many JS libraries I find or people post about and my immediate thoughts are "this could have been a gist". Not everything needs a GitHub repo let alone publishing to npm.

SVG is always fun times. So far I've found that WebKit lies about something working but it doesn't, and a relevant WPT always passes (even if WebKit didn't lie)...

Assuming you are not a major whatwg contributor: Did you know that clicking File > print and calling `print()` do very different things?

some thoughts about the bloat introduced by edge-case first libraries

Does anyone reading this skeet work on (or know of anyone who works on) www.gov.uk/alerts? The list of alerts is only available as an Atom feed which relies on XSLT to display in the browser, and there appears to be no proper HTML alternative (the link rel=alternative goes to the homepage).

Grey Phalarope at WWT Llanelli today. Nice find because I missed out on the one last week. 199th lifer, 196th year tick and 191st UK year tick! Getting very close to my goal of 200 UK year ticks for 2025 now.

Blink: Intent to Ship: Mobile and desktop parity for select element rendering modes

#Interop2026 has opened for proposals! This annual cross-vendor project to increase browser compatibility will take your suggestions through September 24. Learn more and speak up: www.igalia.com/2025/09/04/C...

Womp womp looks like scrollbar-color might need > macOS 26/iOS 26 to work in Safari. Tested latest Safari TP on 18 and it's still disabled (the SPI is unavailable). At least its coming I guess.

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!

Ouh … quick! Today is the last day to grab your SUPER EARLY BIRD ticket for #sotb2026 (cc @londonwebstandards.org) Nearly forgot to remind you – phew. An remember: get your tickets early ;) 2026.stateofthebrowser.com

Hey folks! Are you interested in fetch upload streams? If so, what do you want to use them for?

Just had to write `el.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent('click'));` ask me anything. (SVG, it's SVG...)

i should explain why i'm so excited about this. i have a love/hate relationship with javascript. it's the most brittle part of the web stack. all else being equal, if you can do something without javascript you probably should.

📝 Making XML human-readable without XSLT. Turns out, JavaScript works pretty well! jakearchibald.com/2025/making-...

Folks who use Firefox Developer Edition: What drew you to that version rather than Firefox Release/Beta/Nightly?

I've ended up writing a very long piece about XSLT and whether browsers should keep the code they use to transform XML documents into new forms because what was meant to be a technical debate about security, resource priorities and backward compatibility touched such a nerve it needs MEMES 🧵

This is excellent. 👌🏼 “Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion. Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the amount of resources they need” opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...

Has anyone seen any neat uses of the command/commandfor API yet? Any component libraries that support custom command events? Even just anyone whose tried them and wrote about their experience?

Hi all 👋 We're gearing up for 2026 planning soon (UI capabilities and Interop) Do you work on a UI library or framework? I want to hear from you and your experiences/needs. Message me!

Hey css wizards (@bell.bz maybe?) Do you know if there is any proposal / recent addition to CSS that let's you extract a channel from a color? Say I have some hex color and I want it's hue. I can convert it to (e.g) hsl with `hsl(from my-color h 0 0)`, but I cannot access just the hue now.