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All news (79)

January 12
Initiating navigations with the Navigation API

Tips for triggering, intercepting, and timing navigations with navigation.
January 9
VoxCSS, a CSS voxel engine

3D HTML voxels via stacked CSS grids, no Сanvas.
January 8
Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?

Dependency management on the web needs an intervention, not more bundler glue.
January 7
Debugging web performance with Chrome DevTools

A practical checklist for spotting bottlenecks and validating fixes in real time.
January 6
How to @scope CSS now that it’s Baseline

Full browser support makes scoped CSS practical for cleaner, modular styling.
January 5
ES2026 solves JavaScript headaches with dates, math and modules

Smarter tools and faster performance for JavaScript coming in ES2026.
December 26, 2025
Your URL is your state

How thoughtful URL design turns links into powerful, shareable state for modern web apps.
December 25, 2025
Getting a close button to hang off of a dialog

Simpler dialogs with anchor-positioned close buttons.

HTML news (16)

December 25, 2025
Getting a close button to hang off of a dialog

Simpler dialogs with anchor-positioned close buttons.
December 19, 2025
IDREFs: what they are and how to use them

How to build explicit HTML and ARIA relationships for accessibility.
December 18, 2025
Smooth view transitions for dialogs

Combining modern web APIs for seamless UI animations.
December 17, 2025
Results of the State of HTML 2025 survey

Developers still value practical UI over flashy new tech.
December 12, 2025
How HTML changes in ePub

How HTML and CSS behave inside ePub ebooks.
December 2, 2025
Top layer troubles: popover vs dialog

Why toast popovers can float above dialogs yet stay unreachable, and how to fix the top-layer trap.
November 27, 2025
Dialog and popover: layered UI patterns

Built-in layered UI with focus, top layer, and animations handled for you.
November 24, 2025
HTML popover attribute in practice

Covers implicit anchors, auto vs manual vs hint modes, and JS control for accessible popovers.

CSS news (25)

January 9
VoxCSS, a CSS voxel engine

3D HTML voxels via stacked CSS grids, no Сanvas.
January 6
How to @scope CSS now that it’s Baseline

Full browser support makes scoped CSS practical for cleaner, modular styling.
December 25, 2025
Getting a close button to hang off of a dialog

Simpler dialogs with anchor-positioned close buttons.
December 23, 2025
Directional CSS with scroll-state(scrolled)

CSS queries that react to scroll direction shipping in Chrome 144.
December 22, 2025
Introducing CSS grid lanes

Native masonry-style layouts with grid lanes available for testing in Safari TP 234.
December 18, 2025
Smooth view transitions for dialogs

Combining modern web APIs for seamless UI animations.
December 16, 2025
Speeding up CSS with compression dictionaries

Using shared compression dictionaries to cut CSS load times and bandwidth across pages.
December 11, 2025
A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colors, part two

Predictable color manipulation with modern CSS.

JavaScript news (22)

January 12
Initiating navigations with the Navigation API

Tips for triggering, intercepting, and timing navigations with navigation.
January 8
Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?

Dependency management on the web needs an intervention, not more bundler glue.
January 5
ES2026 solves JavaScript headaches with dates, math and modules

Smarter tools and faster performance for JavaScript coming in ES2026.
December 5, 2025
JSDoc as the ideal typing tool for JavaScript

JSDoc as the ideal typing tool for JavaScript and a simpler alternative to TypeScript.
November 28, 2025
Build your own SPA router with URLPattern

Learn to wire URLPattern, web components, and History API into a tiny vanilla JS SPA router.
November 25, 2025
Performance monitoring for web components

Using the User Timing API to track real-world component performance
November 21, 2025
Testing HTML Light DOM web components is easier than expected

How Light DOM, Lit, and Testing Library made a legacy app’s web components testable.
November 18, 2025
The inner workings of JavaScript source maps

A deep dive into how source maps link minified JavaScript back to original code.

Accessibility news (14)

December 19, 2025
IDREFs: what they are and how to use them

How to build explicit HTML and ARIA relationships for accessibility.
December 8, 2025
APCA + WCAG 2 contrast checker

New open-source contrast checker unites APCA and WCAG 2.
December 2, 2025
Top layer troubles: popover vs dialog

Why toast popovers can float above dialogs yet stay unreachable, and how to fix the top-layer trap.
November 24, 2025
HTML popover attribute in practice

Covers implicit anchors, auto vs manual vs hint modes, and JS control for accessible popovers.
November 17, 2025
A complete guide to the <input type="number">

A detailed walkthrough of the input number, its quirks and best practices in modern browsers.
November 13, 2025
Simple one-time passcode inputs

Using just HTML and a few attributes, you can build accessible and reliable OTP forms.
November 11, 2025
HTML’s best kept secret: the <output> tag

Rediscover the forgotten HTML element that improves accessibility.
November 7, 2025
Searchable, collapsible sections with hidden="until-found"

Enhancing collapsible sections with progressive discovery and better find-in-page support.