Web Standards

January 21
Bundle size investigation. A step-by-step guide to shrinking your JavaScript

A checklist for hunting megabytes, and shipping less JS.
January 20
Popover context menus with anchor positioning

A practical recipe for popover menus that animate, and flip to fit the viewport.
January 19
2025 Web Almanac is out

Data-backed snapshot of how the web is built in 2025, from performance to privacy.
January 16
Date is out, Temporal is in

A quick tour of Temporal, the saner successor to JavaScript’s Date.
January 15
What’s new in Chrome 144

Find results styling, declarative geolocation permission, and Temporal arrive in stable.
January 14
Firefox 147 release notes for developers

CSS anchor positioning, Navigation API, WebGPU on Apple Silicon, and DevTools improvements.
January 13
A production-ready web component starter template

Skip boilerplate with scaffolded tests, CI, and secure npm publishing.

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.

January 20
Popover context menus with anchor positioning

A practical recipe for popover menus that animate, and flip to fit the viewport.
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.

January 21
Bundle size investigation. A step-by-step guide to shrinking your JavaScript

A checklist for hunting megabytes, and shipping less JS.
January 16
Date is out, Temporal is in

A quick tour of Temporal, the saner successor to JavaScript’s Date.
January 13
A production-ready web component starter template

Skip boilerplate with scaffolded tests, CI, and secure npm publishing.
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.

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.