What’s new in web - YouTube
Nice to see Clearleft’s browser support policy get a shoutout from Rachel during her Google IO talk.
canistilluse.com - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
…you would be forgiven if you saw an API where a feature went from green (supported) to red (unsupported) and you thought: is the browser being deprecated?
That’s the idea behind my new shiny domain: canistilluse.com. I made the site as satire after reading Jeremy Keith’s insightful piece where he notes:
the onus is not on web developers to keep track of older features in danger of being deprecated. That’s on the browser makers. I sincerely hope we’re not expected to consult a site called canistilluse.com.
It’s weirdly gratifying to see a hastily-written sarcastic quip tuned into something real.
Related links
The UI fund
This is an excellent initiate spearheaded by Nicole and Sarah at Google! They want to fund research into important web UI work: accessibility, form controls, layout, and so on. If that sounds like something you’ve always wanted to do, but lacked the means, fill in the form.
History of the Web - YouTube
I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane with Chris:
From the Web’s inception, an ancient to contemporary history of the Web.
The Core Web Vitals hype train
Goodhart’s Law applied to Google’s core web vitals:
If developers start to focus solely on Core Web Vitals because it is important for SEO, then some folks will undoubtedly try to game the system.
Personally, my beef with core web vitals is that they introduce even more uneccessary initialisms (see, for example, Harry’s recent post where he uses CWV metrics like LCP, FID, and CLS—alongside TTFB and SI—to look at PLPs, PDPs, and SRPs. I mean, WTF?).
Feds may target Google’s Chrome browser for breakup - POLITICO
The unfair collusion between Google AMP and Google Search might just bite ‘em on the ass.
Related posts
Get the FLoC out
Google Chrome is prioritising third parties over end users.
Numbers
“I am not a number, I am a free website!”
Implementors
Different browser vendors have different priorities.
Browsers
I’m on Team Firefox.
The imitation game
The only way to win is not to play.