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Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT support from their engines; the article explains which web features and sites will break and which use cases will continue to work.
Chromium developer Sharon Yang compared working on the browser at Google versus at the employee-owned cooperative Igalia in a FOSSY 2026 talk titled 'From Corporate to Co-op', highlighting differences in company size, ownership, and compensation while noting both teams contribute to the same open-source codebase.
Google announces that the JPEG XL image format will ship in Chrome, marking a notable update for web imaging standards and performance.
Nolan Lawson's blog post explores why web developers often avoid "using the platform" — favoring third-party libraries over native browser APIs — examining historical browser fragmentation, ecosystem familiarity with React/npm, and documentation quality as key drivers.
Kevin Cox's article lays out technical best practices for publishing blog RSS/Atom feeds, covering format choice (preferring Atom over RSS 2), correct Content-Type headers, absolute URLs, feed discovery metadata, and other compatibility tips for readers and search engines.
Bez is a project that generates a web rendering engine from W3C specs and tests, using AI models to write candidate Rust code that is verified against Chromium, Firefox and WebKit rendering results before being committed.
The article discusses Webkit's opposition to API for installable web apps, highlighting inconsistencies in their position and the current usability issues on iOS.
The article critiques JPEG XL as a web image codec, comparing its compression efficiency to alternatives like AVIF and discussing its browser adoption challenges.
Mozilla has announced its intent to ship JPEG XL support in Firefox, with Chrome also planning to support it, making it a cross-browser standard. The article highlights progressive rendering and compares JPEG XL with AVIF for different use cases.
The article highlights new HTML features like <dialog>, popovers, and grouped <details> that enable dynamic functionality without JavaScript, showcasing advancements in web standards and browser compatibility.
The article explains how the ActivityPub protocol achieved success in the Fediverse through its intentionally simple and boring design, enabling broad interoperability without unnecessary complexity.
An analysis of the top 5,000 websites reveals that 90.5% have at least one HTML error, only 2.6% are fully valid, and accessibility failures are widespread.
This article describes the unofficial conversion of WCAG 2.2 Understanding documents into EPUB and PDF formats for easier accessibility audit and offline reading, while noting it is not the normative version.
A technical blog post argues that Atom is technically superior to RSS, particularly in title encoding semantics, and encourages preferring Atom over RSS for web feeds.
A guide on implementing dark mode on websites using web standards like the color-scheme meta tag and prefers-color-scheme media query, with a JavaScript toggle that respects user preferences and stores them in localStorage.
An article arguing that IPv6 zone identifiers in URLs are a design mistake, likely discussing the technical pitfalls and issues they cause in networking and Go's URL handling.
Big Tech companies including Meta, Google, and Apple are collaborating with Mozilla on a new browser standard for advertising attribution, raising concerns about privacy and competitive advantages.
Browsers like Safari and Firefox ship domain-specific code to fix compatibility issues with major websites, while Chrome does not, revealing how browser engines handle web quirks.
Files SDK is introduced as a unified storage interface supporting 18 providers like S3 and R2 across Node, Bun, and edge runtimes. It aims to simplify file operations for web applications and integrates with AI agent frameworks.
Developer Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposes forking the Web by creating an alternative, simplified HTML/Web specification with goals including strict semantic versioning, a formal unambiguous grammar, and a size-constrained spec to encourage browser diversity. The proposal is linked to the lightweight Dillo browser project.