There's been a lot of discussion about masonry in CSS recently and whether it lives in the grid spec. This post explains a different approach, that still enables the track sizing and other features from grid. developer.chrome.com/blog/masonry

When you work on the web platform and web standards.

Quick PSA for everyone excitedly using the popover API now it's in all 3 engines. Add an empty pointerdown event listener to your body element, else popover lightdismiss doesn't work on iOS Safari.

See bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…

A vocal minority felt this is unnecessary party-pooping, and that we should 'fix' HTML by parsing it differently to browsers. But HTML will outlive Svelte, and if we train people to write broken markup like this, we are doing everyone a disservice:

Gave up waiting for the hausmeister to make a proper sign for me. So I found a round font and used a laser printer on vinyl paper, and the result looks better than some of the proper ones 😎

CSS zoom is a non-standard feature that’s been in somewhat common use for a long time. We found a way to implement it without breaking sites that have a -moz-transform fallback. See bugzil.la/csszoom.

I might have thrown a housewarming party this weekend just to hang this sign. Sorry for the kerning. The guests left only by 22:30, by the way.

Gecko: Intent to prototype: Relative Color Syntax groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/…

🎙️ New podcast episode: Getting Started in Standards

Igalia's @[email protected] and bkardell 🐦 with Mozillan and HTML editor Simon Pieters and fellow Igalian/engine contributor Luke about getting started in web standards.

igalia.com/chats/gsis

My precious bike is back from the workshop. Now, with the 11-speed geared hub (Shimano Alfine + Microshift drop bars) ready to climb hills and carry some weight. Unlike the previous hub, this one is completely silent 😍

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🎉 RESOLVED: View Transitions level 2 to public working draft

Level 2 of this specification defines hows the View Transition API works with cross-document navigations.

Soon, you’ll no longer need to refactor your MPA to an SPA in order to use View Transitions!