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Less JavaScript, more HTML. The new <geolocation> HTML element handles permission states and blocked permission recovery for you. Just add the tag, listen for the location event, and let the browser handle the rest→ goo.gle/4pPXZFK

`@font-feature-values` was the foot in the door apparently, interesting

I've been experimenting with an upcoming CSS feature called border-shape lately. It's really cool what you can do with it: lots of practical applications + it opens a lot of doors for non-rectangular UIs! Try it in Canary w/experimental web platform features on, & read more: una.im/border-shape

You can stop sprinkling `if (document.startViewTransition)` guards across your codebase now, because `view-transitions-mock` is here! github.com/GoogleChrome... 🎉🎉🎉

I had to update my blog post from 2019 because Lighthouse has been lowering the score if best-practice rules aren’t met. Specifically, it complains about the absence of a main landmark. I added it, now my score is perfect again. 👍 www.matuzo.at/blog/buildin...

For startups, it’s not that “the idea doesn’t matter,” of course it does. The point is that the idea is not 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, and that all the rest of it is 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳, so it’s useful to focus on those other things. Specifically:

Good news folks frontend devs are safe because *checks notes* Three sets of variables is too much variables.

Still fascinating how many global sites that load fast elsewhere still stall inside China. 40-60% of visitors time out, with pages taking 18sec+ vs 2sec. Sharing the State of China Web Perf Report 2025. Benchmarks, root causes, & what improves after optimization. insights.chinafy.com #china

Chrome 145 is rolling out now! ✨ It's been a Product Excellence milestone for DevTools but we’ve landed some great updates like Soft Nav markers, line-level profiler timings, and the new Render blocking column in the Network panel 📬 Read the full breakdown here: developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-...

💡 CSS Tip! Have you ever tried to use "auto" within clamp()? Unfortunately, it doesn't work, but it's now possible using the new calc-size()! css-tip.com/clamp-auto/ The same applies to all the sizing values (min-content, max-content, fit-content, etc.)

WOHOOOO DEUTSCHEBAHN IS USING PASSKEY TOO 🎉😍 This wasn't on my bingo card 😅 @zapata131.bsky.social

i wan this now

The CSSWG just resolved to add this to the spec 🥳 github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

So there's a new meta element arriving in town (Chrome Canary first)? 👏 www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0...

🎂 19 yrs ago on this day, the legendary FireBug v1.0 launched, and had significant impact enabling debugging of a webpage in ways many had not seen. Here's the original blogpost: web.archive.org/web/20070129...

Some iceberg situation in Northern Germany (Geesthacht) 🥶🧊🐧 www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...

I just merged the code change for this. We'll now have new Device Memory API limits from Chrome 146 and other Chromium-based browsers: - Android: 2, 4, 8 - Others: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 Replacing the old values of 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8 which have grown outdated. Next up, updating MDN documentation...

Lovely Speculation Rules Generator tool I somehow missed before: www.corewebvitals.io/tools/specul...

I've been putting together a collection of web badges/buttons after being nerd sniped by @strange.website. I plan to make a great deal more, but these are what I've got so far. vale.rocks/portfolio/88... #88x31 #WebBadges #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

Vue Router 5 is on its way with file based and type safe routing (unplugin-vue-router) as part of the core package Check github.com/vuejs/router... and give it a try!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this API is so good! 🤤 Now Baseline Newly Available too!

What is the critical rendering path of your website, and how do you optimize it? My new video explains how browsers load key resources needed to display page content and how to use the Lighthouse network dependency tree to analyze request chains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf4i...

🔥 New blog post: Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them? “Dear #JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention.” Read more: lea.verou.me/blog/2026/we...

Our posh new OG images are live too. I said I would do more actual coding this year and this is the first little thing piccalil.li/blog/date-is...

🎂 Happy Birthday, Safari. www.apple.com/newsroom/200... “MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO—January 7, 2003—Apple® today unveiled Safari™, the fastest and easiest to use web browser ever created for the Mac®”

Wrote a bit more about the memory leak we fixed recently, and why we ignored it for 6 years. Thanks to @nucliweb.net for sharing some of his questions! www.debugbear.com/blog/javascr...

This one got released rather quietly and I think could do with a bit more attention! Read about how to avoid caching performance penalties due to tracking query params and the like!

More holiday cheer. For those of you asking about Safari’s “stable” Interop 2025 score…

It's really sad that Chrome laid off one of the world's best CSS developer-designers, and now they have to fake demos of web features. youtu.be/d8J0vs-bEPE?...

Well this is good news for #a11y Germany rejects Accessibility overlays for EAA compliance and says regulators won’t audit any website that uses an accessibility widget chrisyoong.com/blog/germany...

🆕 The URL Pattern API is Newly Available! Use it to match and extract parts of URLs, no need to reinvent routing logic. Supports literals, wildcards, named groups, and even regex constraints. Learn how it works 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

Landing next month in Chrome 144: scroll-state(scrolled) This new scroll query value lets you style your UI based on the most recent scroll direction. This means you can change animation-direction based on last scroll & implement directional UI like "hidey-bars" Learn more: una.im/scroll-state...

🌐 Want to level up your web projects and connect with other devs? Follow @developer.chrome.com and explore the Chrome for Developers Starter Pack → goo.gle/4qj5Wnq

🎙️LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE! It's been one of DevTool's most requested features… weighing at eiiighty-five votes… 10 years in the making… entering the ring from Chrome 144… Heeeerre's: Individual request throttling!!! developer.chrome.com/blog/throttl... 🥊 It's a knockout! The crowd does wild! 👏🙌🎉🥳

Safari 26.2 is here with 65 features + 165 bug fixes — including field-sizing, Navigation API, Largest Contentful Paint, command & commandfor, CHIPS opt-in partitioned cookies, scrollend event, random(), WebGPU in WebXR, scrollbar-color, hidden=until-found and much more! webkit.org/blog/17640/w...

✨ Exciting proposal alert: the CPU Performance API. This proposal will add `navigator.cpuPerformance`, a value that measures the broad performance capability of the CPU. That way, we can scale up/down our animations to make sure everyone has the best experience possible for their device. 😄

This is just like...really rubbish right? It's horrible to watch and especially if you look at the movement of the people and objects, and the details.

🎉 And we're live! 🎉 We just launched CSS Wrapped 2025: our annual recap of all things CSS & web UI that landed in Chrome over the course of the year. 🚀 This is a big one! We highlighted 22 new features to help you build better on the web. Check out: chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025

It's happening. We're OTing Web Install and looking for as much feedback as we can. Feel free to get in touch and open issues and let us know what you think about this advanced capability. blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/20... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmFY...

We just published the first episode in a new series, "Developer Mode", on the Chrome for Developers YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkhl... I'm really excited about this one. We're experimenting with the style and trying to focus more on developer questions.

GDE @henrylim96.bsky.social talks about web performance at #DevFest Birmingham 2025 - @tunetheweb.com would be proud!

It is @oliverdunk.com!🔥 Oliver is talking about how you can build web extension (Side Panel API, Built-in AI) at #DevFest Birmingham 2025. @developer.chrome.com

When I realized I had free will, I asked the cabin crew for a cockpit visit ✨

Aye or Nay? `<input type=emoji>` to trigger the native emoji-picker, allowing you to pick a single emoji.

Love this! CSS @starting-style debugging is available in Chrome DevTools by @bram.us www.bram.us/2025/10/21/c...

TIL that `dns-prefetch` is now baseline "newly available". I've been using this for ages, but apparently, it only started working in iOS Safari with version 26. Here are the release notes: webkit.org/blog/17333/w...

Chrome Canary now supports network throttling for individual request URLs! Learn how to try out this new feature: www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-...

✨ One line of CSS. Smooth page transitions. No JavaScript. ``` @view-transition { navigation: auto; } ``` The 🆕 CSS View Transitions bring native animations to multi-page apps, no SPA setup needed! Explore now 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

“Simple to use, progressive enhancement, built in APIs are the best” A timeless quote from @barrypollard.bsky.social at #perfnow, (given with a deliciously timely self-reference) I love this.