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As the web gets more and more capable, developers are able to make richer online experiences. There are times, however, where some new web capabilities may not work as you would expect in the interest of usability, security and privacy.…

It’s interesting how third-parties are sometimes super involved in pushing browser things forward. One big story there was how Bloomberg hired Igalia to implement CSS grid across the browsers.

Here’s another story of Bocoup doing that, this time for the …

November 30th, the official “Blue Beanie Day,” has come and gone. I’m not sure I ever grokked the exact spirit of it, but I’ve written about what it means to me. Last year:

Web standards, as an overall

I know. You hate parallax. You know what we should hate more? When things that used to work on the web stop working without any clear warning or idea why.

Way back in 2014, Keith Clark blogged an exceptionally clever …

There is a variety of HTML that you can just leave out of the source HTML and it’s still valid markup.

Doesn’t this look weird?

<p>Paragraph one.
</p><p>Paragraph two.
</p><p>Paragraph three.</p>

It does to me, but the closing tags are …

The way JavaScript works is we can do scripts as an inline block:

<script>
  let foo = "bar";
</script>

Or, if the script should be fetched from the network…

<script src="/js/global.js"></script>

With CSS, we can do an inline block of …

In August of 2013, Aaron Gustafson posted to the WaSP blog. He had a bittersweet message for a community that he had helped lead:

Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee’s

Tom Warren’s “Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6” for The Verge has a title that, to us front-end web developers, suggests that Chrome is turning into a browser far behind in technology and replete with …