Bramus (is on vacation 🌴)

We're kicking this Bluesky party up a notch 🎉 and here to give developers what they want (what they really, really want)!

What Chrome features and topics would you like to learn more about?

AFK right now, but I'm sure you can simply brew cask install it.

In the past I’ve used VMware Fusion for this. I heard it’s free nowadays.

Still happy with my “dumb little printer” –an entry-level office laser printer by HP from 20 years ago– exactly because of 1.

p:has(img) + h2 { margin-top: 3rem; }

If this were the only use case for CSS :has(), I'd still be happy. Such a live saver! 👌 #CSS

Context: this is useful in generated content where the CMS wraps an `<img>` tag inside a `<p>`.

Not yet … there is a thread at the CSSWG to be able to capture values from matched elements and reuse those values in the rest of a selector.

4) printer does not refuse to print because it's low on cyan when printing a black and white document.

Designing Websites for iPhone X The section below about safe area insets was updated on Oct 31, 2017 to reflect changes in the iOS 11.2 beta.

Use LVH on the container and then use the safe-area-inset-* envvars to make sure its contents does not bleed into the toolbars.

webkit.org/blog/7929/de...

Blink: Intent to Prototype & Ship: activeViewTransition property on document

🚨 PSA for @firefox.com add-on developers 🚨

There's a phishing campaign that's using false urgency to trick developers into granting a 3rd party access to their AMO accounts. Stay safe out there!

blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/...

👀 🦊 🥳

Want to provide feedback on an experiment in building a fit-text-width (fit text width to container) experiment? Try it out in Canary (enable experimental features flag) and tell me what you think! www.haun.org/kent/html5/f...

una.im | Creating a scroll-spy with 2 lines of CSS scroll-target-group is a new CSS feature that lets you create scroll-spy table of contents with basically 2 lines of CSS.

scroll-target-group is coming to Chrome 140 (stable next month)!

Building on CSS carousel APIs, scroll-target-group lets you "enhance" elements into scroll markers, enabling you to build this scroll-spy effect in 2 lines of CSS!

Makes for a great progressive enhancement!

una.im/scroll-targe...

It wasn't me who made that image …

Selfie on a sailing boat.

👋 Bye, Menorca. Until next time.

I worked college summers on electrical crew. Even then, the staff electrician who trained me was just vibe wiring his way through dorms. We'd come behind & fix his work.

The attitude isn't new, but I never expected hype for incompetence. I hope there's always work for people who do the fixing.

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.

“The reason SPAs became the default wasn’t because they were better. It was because, for a while, they were the only way to deliver something that felt fluid – something that didn’t flash white between pages or jank the scroll position.”

www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...

Making Sense of the Performance Extensibility API – CSS Wizardry Making sense—and use!—of the new Performance Extensibility API in Chrome DevTools.

📖 Making Sense of the Performance Extensibility API

csswizardry.com/2025/07/the-...

Celebrating 20 years of MDN | MDN Blog MDN turns 20! Let's look at how we started, how MDN became the most trusted resource for web developers, the impact it's had on the open web, and yes, there's cake, too.

MDN is 20 years old! 🥳

🙏 A huge thank you to...
The devs who read and trust MDN
The contributors who improve it
Everyone working on the web platform who shares our mission.

Here's how we celebrated with the web.dev team! 🧁
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

FFConf early bird tickets end in 7 days. The image shows the FFConf logo next to a young chick in half a shell and an egg timer (appropriately!)

7 days left of our early bird pricing. Then tickets close for the summer holidays, and reopen at full price.

Blink: Intent to Prototype: @custom-media

🔗 Preventing scrollbar layout shifts

Panel 1: Bus driver saying "Don't make me tap the sign" Panel 2: The bus driver tapping a sign that says "Engineers must review all AI generated code"

Been seeing an uptick in what are clearly vibe-coded PRs. On the surface this seems great -- more contributors!

But in the reality it's often AI slop that the person hasn't reviewed and instead the burden of review is on us, the maintainers -- which is a horrible trade.

Could you file a bug over at crbug.com/new? Thanks!

Elephanty.

I displayed an open graph image and had to pay how much?! - Alistair Shepherd A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image used on my twitter archive. I gave in and paid it, but what does that mean for open graph images and copyright?

New blog post! 🚀

A few months ago a media org demanded a license fee for an open graph image I linked. I paid the fee because I was worried, but it raises serious questions about open graph usage on the web!

This goes through how it went and my thoughts.

alistairshepherd.uk/writing/open...

I implemented Lean's CSS-only image placeholder algorithm (and 3 others) on Cloudflare Workers jeremymorrell.dev/sketches/lqi...

I’ve filled it in. Have you?

Browser vendors keep a close eye on the results of these surveys and use them to help prioritise what we work on so this is your easiest opportunity to influence what we work on!

The short version is this person was "vibe coding" and gave the LLM direct access to his production database. It decided to delete the database. Then he started asking questions like it's an actual human with accountability. And it basically said "oops".

Cookie consent popup saying "we care about your privacy" and later "view our 915 partners"

sorry, if you send my information to NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN different companies i don't believe you actually care about my privacy