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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 …

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Chris Coyier on May 19, 2020
Direct link to the article Blue Beanie Day 2019
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Blue Beanie Day 2019

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

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Chris Coyier on Dec 13, 2019
Direct link to the article iOS 13 Broke the Classic Pure CSS Parallax Technique
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iOS 13 Broke the Classic Pure CSS Parallax Technique

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 …

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Chris Coyier on Mar 3, 2020
Direct link to the article Some HTML is “Optional”
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Some HTML is “Optional”

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 …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 11, 2019
Direct link to the article Why isn’t it <style src=””>?
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Why isn’t it <style src=””>?

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 …

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Chris Coyier on Dec 11, 2018
Direct link to the article A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter
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A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter

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

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Jay Hoffmann on Feb 7, 2018
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Careful Now

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 …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 8, 2018
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Further working mode changes at WHATWG

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The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) announced that it has adopted a formal governance structure:

The WHATWG has operated successfully since 2004 with no formal governance structure, guided by a strong culture of pragmatism and collaboration. Although this

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Shared by Geoff Graham on Dec 26, 2017
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Chrome is Not the Standard

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Chris Krycho has written an excellent post about how us fickle web developers might sometimes confuse features that land in one browser as being “the future of the web.” However, Chris argues that there’s more than one browser’s vision of …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Dec 22, 2017
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