Vadim Makeev

Abusing customizable selects. @patrickbrosset builds three creative demos with the new <select>: a curved folder stack, a fanned card deck with anchor positioning, and a radial emoji picker with CSS trigonometric functions. #css #html css-tricks.com/abusing-custom…

Un-Sass’ing my CSS: native CSS nesting. @StuRobson walks through how native CSS nesting works in browsers and compares it to Sass: specificity, the & symbol, practical differences, and component examples, including alerts, cards, and search forms. #css alwaystwisted.com/articles/UnSas…

You don’t know HTML tables. Frank M Taylor goes beyond the basics, exploring table vocabulary, the Table Object Model API, header cell semantics with scope and headers attributes, and practical patterns for building accessible, well-structured tables. blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/03/05/you…

Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden. David Bushell traces the history of the pattern, tests a minimal CSS approach, and explains why the platform still lacks a native alternative. #a11y #css dbushell.com/2026/02/20/vis…

CodePen 2.0 is now in public beta. Pens now have their own file system with folders, a new block-based build process without config, real-time collaboration by invite, an omnibar for quick access to files and commands, and privacy controls. #tools #css codepen.io/beta

Native random values in CSS. @alvaro_montoro explores random() and random-item(), two new CSS functions. random() returns a value within a range, random-item() picks from a list. Both support sharing to correlate results. Only Safari 26.2 so far. #css alvaromontoro.com/blog/68092/nat…

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web. Ryan Hunt says JS-only loading and Web API glue code hurt DX, and the Component Model could add direct bindings and easier imports. #webassembly #firefox hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making…

Practical guide to the <img> element: from basics to LCP. @nucliweb shows how srcset, sizes, modern formats AVIF and WebP via <picture>, fetchpriority, preload for the LCP image, and CDNs can improve Core Web Vitals. #performance #html joanleon.dev/en/guia-practi…

Firefox 148 release notes for developers. The release adds the HTML Sanitizer API and Trusted Types, plus Iterator​.zip() and zipKeyed(), the CSS shape() function, improved anchor positioning, and the experimental Document Picture-in-Picture API. #firefox developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Moz…

Border-shape: the future of the non-rectangular web. @Una introduces the border-shape property that makes borders, shadows, and outlines follow custom geometry. Now available in Chrome Canary for testing. #css #chrome una.im/border-shape/

Accessible building blocks for web. A series of short videos by TetraLogical on accessibility basics: headings, images, buttons, links, and form fields, with practical tips on labels, contrast, and semantic HTML for keyboard and screen reader users. #a11y youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Declarative dialog menu with invoker commands. David Bushell shows a hamburger menu powered by <dialog> using invoker commands with a small JS fallback, plus notes on a WebKit :focus-visible quirk, closedby="any", and view transitions. #html #css dbushell.com/2026/02/12/dec…

Here's a quick rundown of what we delivered as part of Interop 2025, and what's planned for Interop 2026!

Interop 2026 names 20 focus areas. Apple, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla will align implementations and tests across anchor positioning, attr(), view transitions, Navigation API, WebTransport, WebRTC, and CSS zoom to improve interoperability. wpt.fyi/interop-2026

For 10 years we published daily web platform news in Russian. I always wanted to do the same in English, and 5 months ago I started. Yesterday I hit the 100th news on @webstandardsdev 🎉 Here’s a story behind the project. Of course, built on Eleventy 😎 pepelsbey.dev/articles/web-s…

Hi everyone! This is me, looking for a job in digital accessibility, preferably as a consultant for Web Accessibility in Europe (I'm in Spain) 🙏. Please share my post about me and let me know if you are in need of such a specialist 😊❤️. linkedin.com/posts/glafira-…

Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too. Alice Boxhall introduces a proposal that lets a shadow DOM element become the target when the host is referenced. Chromium, WebKit and Firefox already have experimental implementations. #a11y blogs.igalia.com/alice/referenc…

A polyfill for the HTML switch element. Thomas Steiner shares a polyfill, bringing near-native <input type="checkbox" switch> to browsers beyond Safari, with accessibility mapping, high-contrast tweaks, and FOUC-safe loading. #html #polyfill blog.tomayac.com/2026/01/12/a-p…

CSS scroll-state container queries can now detect scrolling. @utilitybend shows Chrome 144’s new scrolled state for @​container, building on stuck, snapped, and scrollable states, to power hidey headers and scroll hints with no JS. #css #scroll utilitybend.com/blog/is-it-scr…

Results of the State of JavaScript 2025 survey. TypeScript wins as a language, Vite downloads pass Webpack, and AI-generated code was just under 30% by late 2025, with Cursor, Zed, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot rising. #stateof #js 2025.stateofjs.com