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Bramus @bram.us · 22/05/2026

Here's the recording of this year's “What's new in Web UI” talk @una.im and I gave at Google I/O earlier this week. youtu.be/uT7MVcCQ4rw Very happy with how it went, and I think you might find it useful, so give it a watch 😊 #ChromeDevRel #GoogleIO

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What's new in Web UI

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Google for Developers @developers.google.com · 20/05/2026

Turn your website into an agentic toolkit 🌐 Catch the 3 big Chrome updates from #GoogleIO: 🛠️ WebMCP for agentic toolkits 🐞 Autonomous debugging via Chrome DevTools 📑 Modern Web Guidance Learn more: goo.gle/IO26-Chrome-...

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It’s shocking how the motivation behind almost every single bad tech bill is about hating LGBTQ people and specifically trans people

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Bramus @bram.us · 23/03/2026

The great thing about Scroll-Driven Animations is that they work with your existing CSS animations. The framework to get started is simple: 1. Take an existing animation 2. Drop the duration 3. Set the animation-timeline to view() or scroll() scroll-driven-animations.style has a free video course

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Scroll-driven Animations

A bunch of demos and tools to show off Scroll-driven Animations

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Bramus @bram.us · 11/03/2026

So. Anchor Positioning and DevTools … I sat together with The Hype™ tonight and this is what we built in 2 hours. Main takeaway from this experiment is that it still requires a “Subject Matter Expert” (in this case: me) to build this, instructing The Hype™ what to do (and sometimes how to do it).

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 02/03/2026

Dear God, what have we done? Maybe adding this was a mistake? But seriously clever (mis)use of this! And surprisingly little code!

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 10/03/2026

🎉 I'm so excited that scoped custom element registries is landing in Chrome and Edge! 🥳 This solves one of the biggest complaints with the web components APIs: the global tag name namespace. Standards is a long game though: I first proposed this in 2017! 😲 developer.chrome.com/blog/scoped-...

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Make custom elements behave with scoped registries | Blog | Chrome for Developers

You can now encapsulate custom elements.

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Bramus @bram.us · 18/02/2026

Element-Scoped View Transitions are gonna be **SO GOOD** There’s still some details to settle, but the main thing is there: run VTs on a subtree of the DOM, allowing parallel VTs. And with `view-transition-scope` you can limit the scope of `view-transition-name` values, allowing VTs to be nested.

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Una Kravets @una.im · 05/02/2026

border-shape can handle both insets and outsets, so you can do effects like this chevron nav (corner-shape can't do both). This means you get a perfectly-wrapping focus ring without needing to manage z-index or having it partially covered due to overlap. Demo: codepen.io/una/pen/ByzY...

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 27/01/2026

Excitingly, Chrome Canary recently added support for <meta name="text-scaling"> behind a flag. What is it? It's something that we're all going to start using on our websites to improve accessibility. Here's a blog post with more info. www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0...

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Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary - Josh Tumath

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 23/01/2026

a powerful #CSS transition technique enters the ring: Anchor Interpolated Morphing (AIM) nerdy.dev/anchor-inter...

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Ian Riddler Photography @ianriddler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Any Port in a Storm When the storm is so full on that a mere 6 seconds is bordering on over-exposing the image! So bright. Soooo bright. - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Aurora #Night #Stunday #Scape #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Nightscape #Bucketlist #Travel

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Penny @digitaltransient.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

What an amazing year it's been for CSS! 😅 I'm so proud of the team and all of our collaborators working on other engines for what's been accomplished in 2026. ❤️

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Bramus @bram.us · 05/12/2025

There’s a lot of cases where I needed this, so I’m very excited to seeing `random()` come to CSS. While trying it out, however, I found the caching strategy options to be very confusing … so I am proposing to rename some of the keywords: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr... Any Hot Takes™ on this?

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[css-values-5] The `<random-value-sharing>` options for `random()` are confusing · Issue #13132 · w3c/csswg-drafts

I took random() for a spin and must say I struggled quite a bit with the <random-value-sharing> options. What we have now As it currently stands, the options are: auto: Each random function in an e...

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Henri Helvetica 🧑🏾‍🚀🇭🇹 @henrihelvetica.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

✨ Core Web Vitals Summit ✨ stream is today in just over 1hr, @ 11am, virtual doors will likely open a few minutes before. Join us! Hang out. Come hear from web performance and ux professionals. 📆 TODAY, Wed Dec 3rd ⏰ 11a EST, 5p CET 🔗 bit.ly/cwv-summit

SPY stream presents core-web-vital summit Wednesday December 3. image of eight avatars of tech professionals.

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Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A stochastic terror campaign against anyone who is trans or gender nonconforming. We wake up with this fear, and we go to bed with this fear. And it weighs on us every minute of our lives. Exactly as intended. And most institutions not only don't protect us, they protect the aggressors.

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 27/11/2025

love seeing all the #CSS subgrid excitement in my timeline!! def @joshwcomeau.com inspired 🤘🏻 now that your subgrid interest is piqued, checkout a post I made too‽ maybe even just for the long list of resource examples at the end web.dev/articles/css...

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CSS subgrid | Articles | web.dev

Subgrid enables grid shareability, allowing nested grids to align to ancestors and siblings.

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Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Trying to finish my work day be like ...

Pixel, a calico rescue cat, is done waiting for love.

Love. Now. Human.

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Una Kravets @una.im · 12/11/2025

Good news! Range syntax for style queries and if() functions has shipped in Chrome! Check it out: una.im/range-style-...

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una.im | Range Syntax for Style Queries

Learn how to use the new range syntax for CSS style queries and the if() function.

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 13/11/2025

At the CSS WG meeting, we're discussing possibly natively doing fit-text in CSS. Send us your use cases (with screenshots/links)! Do you ever need to fit multi-line text? Do you ever need to fit non-text inline elements (e.g. icons)? Do you adjust font-size, letter-spacing, or both?

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Norah 🤗 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Good morning and happy Sunday 🐴 🥰

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Penny @digitaltransient.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

TPAC 2025! Say hello if you see me there.

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Pen-a-Lope 🦌 @pennystwocents.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Just witnessed Pixel, having emerged from the cat room after taking a particularly noxious dump, sniff the air dubiously then turn tail and return to her litter box to bury matters further. Thanks for the courtesy flush, Pixel!

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 03/11/2025

✨ It’s that time of year! The State of JavaScript 2025 survey is currently running. 😄 I take the survey every year. It’s a great way to keep up with all of the new features and APIs that have come to browsers in the past year. stateofjs.com/en-US

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State of JavaScript

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Una Kravets @una.im · 03/11/2025

We often hear that folks want "wrap detection" in CSS (i.e. when a flex item shifts into a position where it wraps over to the next line) What is a real-world example of a use-case you would need this for?

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Bramus @bram.us · 21/10/2025

I flipped the flag on this one today and it’s now enabled by default. Expect it in tomorrow’s Chrome Canary build. (If you can’t wait to try it out, you can manually flip the flag in today’s Canary/Beta/Dev builds. Go to chrome://flags and look for starting-style)

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Bramus @bram.us · 03/10/2025

At #fronteers #DarkMode, @utilitybend.com proposed the <rangegroup> HTML Element. It unlocks the multi-handle range slider, a pattern you might have already seen when picking a price-range. Feedback Form (with links to the explainer and demos): docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

Brecht on stage showing some of the demos.

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Nordic.js @nordicjs.com · 03/10/2025

Talk about making an entrance!! 🍰✨ @una.im

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 02/10/2025

I’ll be speaking in Toronto in a couple of weeks! It’ll be on animation design, and some of the cool things we can do to make our websites/webapps more whimsical. ✨ fitc.ca/event/webu25...

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Web Unleashed 2025 // October 21-22 // Toronto & Online

The ultimate conference for front-end dev experts

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Bramus @bram.us · 02/10/2025

🤩 View Transitions excitement! Goooooo Ladybird! > This month, a lot of the underlying machinery for this has been implemented. It's going to take a bit longer before it's usable, but it's a good start to an exciting new web feature. buttondown.com/ladybird/arc...

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This Month in Ladybird: September 2025

September wrapped up with 207 merged PRs from 40 contributors. Let’s take a look at some highlights: Welcoming new sponsors Ladybird is entirely funded by...

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Penny @digitaltransient.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Accessible CSS carousels are here! Our new post, co-authored with @flackr.bsky.social and Lucas Radaelli (x.com/lucasradaelli), walks you through building them with the new APIs. The APIs are Interop 2026 proposals, soon on their way to all browsers. 🤞 developer.chrome.com/blog/accessi...

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Make accessible carousels | Blog | Chrome for Developers

How the features in CSS Overflow 5 can help you create more accessible carousel patterns.

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CSS-Tricks* @css-tricks.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

There's a nice series from @sturobson.com getting into *why* and *how* to "un-Sass" CSS. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/UnS... @jeffbridgforth.com is making a similar leap and shares how he's approaching it: css-tricks.com/is-it-time-t...

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Is it Time to Un-Sass? | CSS-Tricks

Many of the Sass features we've grown to love have made their way into native CSS in some shape or form. So, should we still use Sass? This is how developer Jeff Bridgworth is thinking about it.

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 23/09/2025

This is such a great enhancement. Being able to have any tool that talks MCP have the ability to deeply introspect your pages is huge.

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 24/09/2025

We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉 whimsy.joshwcomeau.com I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄

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Whimsical Animations

Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

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Bramus @bram.us · 24/09/2025

CSS Excitement! > RESOLVED: Add `color-scheme()` test to both `@container` queries and `if()`. github.com/w3c/csswg-dr... This means you can do a light-dark() that works with any type of value 🤩🤩 ``` background-image: if(color-scheme(dark): url(dark.svg); else: url(light.svg)); ```

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[css-values-5] Using `if()` to do dark/light switching of image urls. · Issue #10577 · w3c/csswg-drafts

Please forgive me if this one's a bit vague as I'm adding an issue here at Chris Lilley's request, and I'm not familiar with the process too much. There are times when I need to swap the background...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This is amazing! The company behind it is uniQure and it's a type of gene therapy. Does anyone know the story about the preclinical work leading up to it? It know a lot about the discovery of the HTT mutation (an amazing story!). I'm curious about this specific microRNA approach: who developed it?

Our investigational gene therapy candidate AMT-130 consists of an AAV5 vector carrying an artificial micro-RNA specifically tailored to silence the huntingtin gene, leveraging our proprietary miQURE™ silencing technology. The therapeutic goal is to inhibit the production of the mutant protein (mHTT). Using AAV vectors to deliver micro-RNAs directly to the brain for non-selective knockdown of the huntingtin gene represents a highly innovative and promising approach to treating Huntington’s disease.

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johnphamous @handle.invalid · 23/09/2025

guidelines for building interfaces on the web interactions, animations, layout, content, forms, performance, design & copywriting includes an AGENTS.md

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Una Kravets @una.im · 15/09/2025

To do this with the (upcoming) interest invoker API, it's 1 line of code: .parent:has(:interest-source) button { interest-show-delay: 0s; } You have your default delay. Then, you update the interest delay when an element inside of the parent has interest (i.e. hover). codepen.io/una/pen/LEpw...

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML <model> element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more. webkit.org/blog/17333/w...

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WebKit Features in Safari 26.0

We’re happy to share with you what’s arriving in Safari 26.0!

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Penny @digitaltransient.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Concurrent View Transitions is a huge unlock, please kick the tires on these and give us feedback!

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