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Philip Walton

@philipwalton.com

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DevRel lead @ Google working on Chrome and the Web. I occasionally blog at: philipwalton.com

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Philip Walton @philipwalton.com · 15/09/2026

If you've ever tried using a new web API in TypeScript, you've probably hit this problem: An API exists. It works in your browser. But TypeScript has no types for it. The reason is a limitation that TS unfortunately applies to its built-in libs. BUT, I've created a relatively simple fix 👇

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Philip Walton @philipwalton.com · 13/08/2025

I believe this will lead to FASTER feature adoption on the web, not slower. I also bet there are many features you can safely use now that you may not realize. For example, on my personal website, 98.2% of my users are on browsers that support all of Baseline 2023. Here's what my data looks like:

Baseline Report Table, generated via: https://chrome.dev/google-analytics-baseline-checker/

Baseline target, % of users supporting
2015, 100.0%
2016, 100.0%
2017, 99.9%
2018, 99.8%
2019, 99.8%
2020, 99.8%
2021, 99.3%
2022, 99.2%
2023, 98.2%
2024, 96.0%
Widely Available, 98.9%
Newly Available, 87.5%

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Philip Walton @philipwalton.com · 05/11/2024

And here's a graph of HTTP Archive data showing a timeline of distinct sites that have adopted CQs. As you can see, in October the number of sites nearly doubled compared to September!

A graph showing the percentage of sites in HTTP Archive that use Container Queries over time. In October 2022 the percentage was 0%, and in October 2024 (the most recent dataset) that number is ~5%.

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Philip Walton @philipwalton.com · 05/11/2024

And that number appears to be increasing each month. Here's a graph showing the % of page loads in Chrome that use CQs over time:

A graph showing percentage of page loads in Chrome that use Container Queries over time. In November 2022 the percentage was 0.014%, and now in November 2024 it's 6.04%!

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Philip Walton @philipwalton.com · 02/11/2024

@sachagreif.bsky.social not sure if you're the best person to ping about this, but today I noticed the percentages in the State of HTML survey look off (e.g. the numbers are all very small and don't add up to 100). 2023.stateofhtml.com/en-US/featur... Do you think this may be a bug?

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