Making sense of ‘@starting-style’

The CSS at-rule is trickier than it seems.

The CSS mindset

CSS makes sense when seen as a set of algorithms.

Most blocked AI bots

”Block rates have increased significantly over the past year.”

Styling alt text like any other text

Display alt text if an image fails to load.

Investing in what advances the internet

Mozilla focuses on Firefox, drops Pocket and Fakespot.

CMS market share trends

WordPress is on top, but competition is fierce.

The HTML ‘caption’ element

How to properly use ‘caption’ in HTML tables.

Introducing NLWeb

Bringing conversational interfaces directly to the web.

Is PHP still relevant in 2025?

The current state of the programming language.

Visual Studio Code now supports Baseline

Get browser compatibility insights right in the code editor.

The copilot delusion

“Defer your thinking to the bot, and we all rot.”

Are you sure that table isn’t a list?

Sometimes, a list can be the better choice.

Using Google’s variable fonts

How to take full advantage of their capabilities.

Pick characters for font subsetting

A JavaScript snippet to help you with the hand-picking.

How to choose your Baseline target

An approach to adopt newish web features for your users.

New in Chrome 137

CSS if() function, CSS ‘reading-flow’ and ‘reading-order’, and more.

Reading 2,000 web pages

What we can learn from reading others’ source code.

The prompt engineering playbook

How to make AI coding assistants more reliable.

Good Internet Magazine

A print and digital magazine for the non-corporate web.

Announcing Angular 20

New features, polished DX, and mascot ideas.

Web design and the browser

Websites are meant to be built by anyone.

The OKLCH ecosystem and its tools

An overview of Evil Martians’ excellent OKLCH tools.

Web Platform Status release

The web platform dashboard takes a giant leap forward.

The HTML ‘col’ element

If you use it, you’re prone to make a mistake.

The recurring ‘developer replacement’ hype cycle

”The skill that survives and thrives isn’t writing code.”

25 years ago, Richard Hipp created SQLite

Today, it’s the world’s most widely used database engine.

Reinvent the wheel

“One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to not reinvent the wheel.”

ForesightJS

A library to prefetch data the user actually needs.

Pages CMS

An open-source CMS built for static websites.

Detecting third-party cookie blocking

How to care that applications respond gracefully.

Courses Reviews

Find coding courses, read reviews and save money.

SVG to CSS Shape Converter

A web tool to transform an SVG shape into a CSS shape.

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

A provocation about AI-assisted programming.

How to correctly use if() in CSS

What can be confusing at first is easy to fix.

“AI may be the first anti-automation tool in that it has automated the thing developers like to do (write code) and stuck them with more of what they don’t like to do (fix someone else’s bad code).”

Storybook 9

Testing UI components gets smarter with new tooling.

New to the web platform (May 2025)

The latest browser features at a glance.

Printing the web

Making webpages look good on paper.

Translating accessibility

What to translate for accessible web pages.

CSS only contrast

Accessible contrast for a given color with pure CSS.

JavaScript with optional chaining

“A game-changer for writing safer, cleaner JavaScript.”

Preserving text size when scaling SVGs

A flexible solution that doesn’t require much code.

The ‘Personal Home Page Tools’ turn 30

On June 8, 1995, PHP said hello to the world.

Hosting-Checker

Discover the infrastructure behind any website.

Decorative text within HTML

It’s perfectly valid HTML, but you may not like it.

WebKit in Safari 26 beta

SVG icons, CSS anchor positioning, and much more!

Introducing php-node

How to seamlessly blend PHP with Node.js.

On shaping light

A deep dive into volumetric lighting.

Partial keyframes

CSS keyframe animations might blow your mind.

Struggling with EAA compliance?

What to do before the European Accessibility Act deadline.

Apple just sherlocked Docker

Linux container images now work directly on Macs.

A new way to style gaps

Say hello to consistent separators across CSS layouts.

Decoding the SVG ‘path’ element

It’s not as confusing as it initially looks.

TC39 advances 9 JavaScript proposals

Three features are ready to join ECMAScript.

Modal dialog focus

Where to put focus when opening a modal dialog.

How to use the browser console

An in-depth guide to Chrome DevTools’ console.

PHP version stats (June 2025)

Which PHP versions power today’s projects.

“Ask for facts and ‘AI’ gives you fiction. Apparently everyone is happy with that?”

You’re not a front-end developer…

A quiz not meant to be taken too seriously.

Escaping ‘<‘ and ‘>’ in attributes

What the HTML spec change means for developers.

The future of browsing the web

”AI just broke the web that Google built.”

Creating accessible emails

A guide to building impactful, compliant emails.

Next.js 15.1+ unusable outside Vercel

It potentially devastates your search rankings.

What I wish I knew when learning ARIA

How to approach a vital part of web interfaces.

Exploring JavaScript

A guide to modern JavaScript for programmers.

The "trust, but verify" pattern

“Verification, not generation, is the new development bottleneck.”

Highlights from Git 2.50

A look at the top features and changes.

Keeping up with new CSS features

There are many ways to stay informed.

Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs

“You can build accessibly without having a bleeding heart.“

Bluesky likes

Accessible, localizable web components are still a challenge.

The server doesn’t render anything

How servers can effectively deliver HTML.

Cascade Layers vs. BEM vs. utility classes

Approaches to control CSS specificity.

Accessibility in design systems

How accessible features fit into design components.

Charts in CSS

Yet again, but now with new techniques.

Sonda

A visualizer/analyzer for JavaScript and CSS bundles.

Photo³

An animated 3D photo gallery like no other.

The HTML ‘output’ element

A display companion to ‘input’ for form results.

Analytics without cookie banners?

What to expect from cookieless web analytics.

CSS color functions

What they are and how to use them.

Easier to use regexes in JavaScript

“This is how regular expressions are meant to be written.”

Figma MCP

“A leap forward for design-to-code workflows.”

Vite 7.0 is out

The front-end ecosystem makes big moves.

SVG optimization and accessibility basics

Techniques to make SVGs lightweight and accessible.

Bot or not?

Web bot history and detection techniques.

ECMAScript 2025 is now a standard

What it brings to JavaScript developers.

Safe align your content

The CSS ‘safe’ keyword is worth knowing.

Declarative templating API proposal

“The time is right for a DOM templating API.”

We’re using AI wrong

“The question isn’t whether AI will get smarter.”

CSS blob recipes

What’s the easiest way to make fun shapes?

Kelp

A customizable UI library that needs no build step.

State of Devs 2025

The developer survey about everything but code.

Top-level ‘await’ in ES modules

Write cleaner, more direct async code in modules.

New to the web platform (June 2025)

The latest browser features at a glance.

Introducing pay per crawl

Cloudflare lets site owners charge AI crawlers.

Cloudflare declares war on AI crawlers

The infrastructure giant now blocks them by default.

Our first IP address certificate

Let’s Encrypt starts rolling out the new option.

New if() function in CSS

You can now try out inline CSS conditionals.

What’s new in ECMAScript 2025

This year’s additions explained with examples.

The UX of number inputs

The many things you didn’t expect to matter.

WCAG rules in infographics

A practical guide to accessible infographics.