Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary - Josh Tumath
There’s a new meta tag on the block. This time it’s for allowing system-level text sizing to apply to your website.
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
Smart advice on future-proofing and backward-compatibility:
There isn’t a single, specific device, browser, and person we cater to when creating a web experience. Websites and web apps need to adapt to a near-infinite combination of these circumstances to be effective. This adaptability is a large part of what makes the web such a successful medium.
Consider doing the hard work to make it easy and never remove feature queries and @supports statements. This creates a robust approach that can gracefully adapt to the past, as well as the future.
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dead framework theory | AI Focus
This is depressing.
Web Backstories: Shadow DOM | Igalia
Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Jay Hoffmann and Jeremy Keith about Shadow DOM’s backstory and long origins
I enjoyed this chat, and it wasn’t just about Shadow DOM; it was about the history of chasing the dream of encapsulation on the web.
V7: Video Killed the Web Browser Star | Rob Weychert
Grrr… it turns out that browsers exhibit some very frustrating behaviour when it comes to the video element. Rob has the details…
No build frontend is so much more fun
The joy came flooding back to me! It turns out browser APIs are really good now.
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Safari 18 supports `content-visibility: auto` …but there’s a very niche little bug in the implementation.
Mismatch
It’s almost as though humans prefer to use post-hoc justifications rather than being rational actors.
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Browser are user agents, not developer agents.