Better typography with text-wrap pretty | WebKit
Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.
The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
This is something I bump against over and over again: so-called evergreen browsers that can’t actually be updated because of operating system limits.
From what I could gather, the version of Chrome was tied to ChromeOS which couldn’t be updated because of the hardware. No new ChromeOS meant no new Chrome which meant stuck at version 76.
But what about the iPad? I discovered that my Mom’s iPad was a 1st generation iPad Air. Apple stopped supporting that device in iOS 12, which means it was stuck with whatever version of Safari last shipped with iOS 12.
So I had two older browsers that couldn’t be updated. It was device obsolescence because you couldn’t install the latest browser.
Websites stop working and the only solution is to buy a whole new device.
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An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element | Blog | Chrome for Developers
This looks interesting. On the hand, it’s yet another proprietary creation by one browser vendor (boo!), but on the other hand it’s a declarative API with no JavaScript required (yay!).
Even if this particular feature doesn’t work out, I hope that this is the start of a trend for declarative access to browser features.
Intent to Ship: View Transitions Same-Origin Navigation
Finally! View transitions for multi-page apps (AKA websites) will be landing in Chrome soon—here’s hoping other browsers follow suit. Mozilla are up for it. Apple are, as usual, silent on their intentions.
Nice to see a blog post of mine referenced to show that this is a highly-requested feature. Blogging gets results, folks!
Intent to Ship: Auto Sizes for Lazy Loaded Images with Srcset
Remember when I wrote about sizes="auto"? Well, it’s coming to Chrome! Hallelujah!
CSS Nesting and the Cascade | WebKit
As well as a very welcome announcement, Jen has a really good question for you about nesting in CSS.
If you have an opinion on the answer, please chime in.
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