Browser vendors are quiet but the community is not. Video state that survives navigation with view transitions, Kevin Powell’s cascade-layer trick for naming media queries, and native masonry landing as grid-lanes.
I tabbed out of a showModal() dialog into the address bar and assumed it was a bug. It is not. Why the W3C APA group dropped the strict focus trap, what showModal() handles for you, and the two mistakes that make focus leak.
Chrome 144 added the ::search-text pseudo-element, which finally lets you style find-in-page highlights. Relative color syntax keeps matches readable on dark themes and saturated backgrounds.
The WordPress 7.0 bug scrubs run twice a week from late January to April 8, moving from alpha triage to hunting regressions. Here are the dates, the Slack channels, and what it takes to lead a session.
WordPress 7.0 turns the mobile menu overlay into a block-based template part, so a logo or a button goes in without CSS overrides. Here is what to test, plus the open argument about where the markup belongs in the HTML.
Matching a 1440px Figma file coordinate for coordinate produces CSS full of magic numbers that breaks on the first foldable phone or bumped font size. What to agree on with designers instead: tokens, fluid units, and rules about behavior.
I shipped a button that passed every automated audit and still could not be triggered with a screen reader. The cause was a role attribute I had added for styling, which is the exact thing the first rule of ARIA warns about.
The 2025 Web Almanac covers 17.2 million sites. Variable fonts and text-wrap are finally common, but median mobile page weight is up 202.8% since 2015 and two thirds of sites strip their focus outlines.
Version 0.2.0 of WordPress AI Experiments adds excerpt generation that authors can edit or reject, and an Abilities Explorer screen for testing every registered ability in the browser.
Notes from the Web Directions Dev Summit in Sydney, where the argument was that CSS scroll-driven animations make most JS scroll libraries pointless. Includes the CSS, and why prefers-reduced-motion is not optional.