Huge congrats to Apple, ACT/ The App Association (mostly funded by Apple), AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, who are named in The Hill's "Top lobbyists of 2025", along with other trusted brands like Philip Morris, ExxonMobil, Boeing, Occidental Petroleum, Lockheed Martin. thehill.com/homenews/563...

Picture in Picture works in Safari, but not in PWAs in iOS. It's almost as if Apple want to hobble PWAs just enough to make them unviable, but functional enough to hoodwink regulators that there is a distribution channel outside the App Store and the Apple Tax. bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...

If you read The Verge, you should subscribe. It's worth every penny (if only because Doing Things Costs Money, and The Verge deserves to keep Doing Things). www.theverge.com/bulletin/839...

Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

I've spent months asking the CEOs of companies like Uber, Airbnb, Zocdoc and Taskrabbit what they will do when AI agents use their websites instead of real people -- but I was not expecting Amazon to fight back first and hardest. New Decoder on... THE DOORDASH PROBLEM www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Ck...

Well, spank me with a croissant while you sing Jacques Brel songs, it's only my post-Brussels trip Reading List 350! Wow sophisticated people at glamorous parties with your up-to-date knowledge of web standards, browsers and regulatory matters! brucelawson.co.uk/2025/reading...

So, so good

posted this 6 years ago and it’s still relevant

According to Apple, "the DMA has failed to live up to its promises" because it hasn't resulted in App Store price drops for consumers.

 www.macrumors.com/2025/11/12/d... 1/n 🧵👇

A couple of weeks ago at @perfnow.nl I gave a talk called "Fine-grained everything". It's about @svelte.dev (obviously), and the new frontiers of framework-land, but it's also about some stubborn misconceptions in web performance circles Gift link: conffab.com/presentation...

The Vergecast: "iPad just isn't the same as a mac", and all that. Then Nilay asks "What does a mac represent to you?" David: "Desktop-class browsers." Nilay: "You want Chrome! You want Chrome and Electron apps!" In other words: competing browser engines on i(Pad)OS. youtu.be/Br00gLOtB-c?...

🤩 There’s a very – VERY! – exciting animations/performance change available in Chrome Canary: Under the right conditions, `width`/`height` animations will no longer automatically force a Main Thread animation, but can be allowed to run on the Compositor.

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and HTML, has expressed support for compelling Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS. He also states that having a powerful browser on iOS would "change the dynamic" with respect to web app's viability on mobile. 1/4

[NL] Zaken doen met PvdA/GL? Nee, want "inhoud". Zakendoen met PVV en FVD? Hebben we al gedaan en/of sluiten we niet uit. decorrespondent.nl/16543/abortu...

Tim Berners-Lee on Apple’s WebKit monopoly brucelawson.co.uk/2025/tim-ber...

@timbl.bsky.social on Decoder with Nilay Patel: "[...] One of the arguments I've heard for why Apple will not allow other browser engines [on iOS] is that they can artificially restrict WebKit [...]" 🔥 pca.st/episode/248e... Via elk.zone/social.vival...

This week's Web Weekly is just about to hit all the inboxes. And, as usual, it's jam-packed! Check it out if you want to know what's happening in the Frontend and browser world. 👇 www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-wee...

Oh FFS www.politico.eu/article/brus...

No you don't need an app on your phone to buy things? They have a website, FFS. (The same goes for the PS Store app, btw)

75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.

field-sizing is coming to Safari 26.2 🥳 Now next is @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social 👀 👀

The 🇬🇧UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially designated Apple as having Strategic Market Status (SMS). After four years investigating Apple’s restrictions on browser engines and web apps, the CMA now has statutory authority to enforce a code of conduct. 1/12

We often hear that folks want "wrap detection" in CSS (i.e. when a flex item shifts into a position where it wraps over to the next line) What is a real-world example of a use-case you would need this for?

It's wild that mobile apps are so entrenched that even the EFF doesn't pause and ask "waitaminute, we haven't really had this problem on desktop for decades... now what invisible force has kept those platforms in check all these years??"

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has designated Apple as having Strategic Market Status. They now have statutory authority to enforce remedies proposed in its Market Investigation Reference. OWA dives into what that means for browsers and web apps. open-web-advocacy.org/blog/what-ap...

[NL] Even wat reflectie op de verkiezingen vanuit De Correspondent... 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIZZ...

Do not use agentic browsers. Please. www.theverge.com/report/81008...

In my opinion, any SWE writing client-side JavaScript has a responsibility to understand the Event Loop. @jakearchibald.com’s ‘In The Loop’ talk is required watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL... (cited by @andydavies.me at #perfnow)

#perfnow was a blast ✨. Great talks/speakers, met some awesome people, lots of notes on stuff I want to dig into.

Neat lil learning from today’s @perfnow.nl (via Umar Hansa): You can now throttle individual requests in Chrome! Neat for experimenting with stuff like - lazy-loading: does the UI look okay if this chunk takes MUCH longer to arrive - resilience: what happens if this specific CDN is extremely slow

Ah, just in time for while I wait for day 2 of #perfnow to kick off: www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanb...

It's time* #perfnow * For coffee 😅

Hierarchy of performance: HTML > CSS >>>>>>>> JS

I've completely refactored and (hopefully? 😅) improved my blog! 🍾 * Lots of under-the-hood changes * Should look and feel the same-ish * CUBE CSS (or something like it) * Improved a11y (but please @ me!) webventures.rejh.nl

It's been a gray and rainy Sunday here in Berlin, so it's the perfect time to write this week's Web Weekly. You know the drill! If you're into web dev news, you should check it out. 👇 webweekly.email It'll go out tmrw. :)

[NL] "Meningen moeten kunnen botsen" klinkt leuk totdat één mening gewoon onderdrukt en/of helemaal niet geuit mag worden, precies op de plek waar het botst decorrespondent.nl/16490/leuk-h...

Apple App Store guilty of abuse of its dominant position in UK, and arse-weasels brucelawson.co.uk/2025/apple-a... in my 5th blog post in 2 weeks (!) I write up some of the more interesting parts of yesterdays 396 page judgement, and offer my own sage opinion of Apple's business practices.

EU, Japan, and now the UK 🚀 www.gov.uk/government/n...

[NL] "We hebben maar twee problemen: klimaat en fascisme" ✨ youtu.be/cK3f2nususs?...

This piece comes 🤏 so close to connecting the dots between app store monopolies that allow govs to censor what people install on their phones and the open web where the gov would have a real hard time, but then just... doesn't. www.theverge.com/column/80369... 1/n

Signals flip the script. React renders where you create state. Signals render where you use state. Same state, but you are pushed into patterns that will lead to better performance by default. One paradigm shift away from memoization hell. 🎯 www.jovidecroock.com/blog/state-v...

Fascisme versla je samen. Sluit je vandaag aan bij het verzet tegen de haat. Begin klein: ga naar www.samentegenfascisme.nl en deel, print en plak deze gratis poster, gemaakt door @maxkisman.bsky.social. Laat zien dat we samen een vuist kunnen maken tegen fascisme en vóór onze vrijheid. 🕊️

The new Web Weekly is just about to hit all the inboxes. 🥂 It's jam-packed with modern CSS magic, performance fundamentals and JavaScript tips and tricks. You should check it out if you're into the web platform! www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-wee...

Fascisme krijgt ruimte door een hardnekkige misvatting: dat jij het niet kunt stoppen. Dat klopt niet. Gezamenlijk kunnen we ons weren tegen de woede en het wantrouwen die onze democratie overspoelen, schrijft @rosansmits.bsky.social. Dat komt neer op een simpele keuze – die keuze is aan jou.

At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems: infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...

It's wild to me that (most?) tech journalists opted for a "we'll report on it, but just the facts, and let people make up their own minds"-approach regarding the removal of the ICE tracking apps from the app stores. 1/n infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...

[NL] Wordt 1 maand gratis lid van De Correspondent!* De Correspondent staat voor journalistiek die niet meegaat in mediahypes, maar diepgravende verhalen maakt die helpen de wereld beter te begrijpen. * GEEN automatische verlenging, je zit nergens aan vast. decorrespondent.nl/cp/gratis-ma...

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

[NL] Alles over de aankomende verkiezingen! Lees, kijk en luister gratis op corr.es/verkiezingen-25