@RickByers @bramus the latest Chrome (stable) version seems to have introduced something on Windows that leads to frequent STATUS_BREAKPOINT crashes. Is there any way of finding out what causes them?

Somebody solved the problem of truncating text with ellipsis in the middle: https://github.com/LalitSinghRana/dynamic-middle-ellipsis

Of course you need to throw React at it! 🫠

@MoritzGlantz @ginader @ErikGustafsson @DanielGoransson my plan is to pick you folks up at 8:50 at your hotel. I have space for four people. Would that work for you?

Just wrapped up recording an episode of the @podcast 🎙️

We talked about web performance, from loadtime to runtime performance, about common pitfalls and what actually matters in real-world projects.

Had a great time with Garrelt and Fabi. Thanks for having me! 😊

Finally, @zachleat and @matuzo seem to have cleared their beer debts. No more picture frame to be seen on stage for the first time in years. 🍻

#smashingconf is about to kick off. At Tuchinski! #fronteers 🥰

I think `shadowrootcustomelementregistry` just took the lead in the longest HTML attribute race:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLTemplateElement/shadowRootCustomElementRegistry

…though still comfortably beaten by your average German compound noun 😄

Wondered why our latest podcast episode didn’t show up on https://workingdraft.de this morning. In our headless WP we preschedule releases and @11ty builds the front facing site daily. Turns out an AI bot broke the build: our log-parsing stats step choked on its UA string:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)

"if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble" 🖕

Modern CSS is no longer just about presentation. It increasingly allows us to explore interaction, state, and progressive enhancement in places that used to be JavaScript territory.

More on that in my blogpost: https://schepp.dev/posts/turning-css-carousels-into-a-theme-switcher/

(and with that post I've fulfilled my duty for 2026 😅)

@tante @robin @timbl Good morning ☀️ I was just interacting with this event page and thought that it could be something to your taste: https://the-web-you-want.org/

Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary, by @joshtumath
https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/

@hdv @dletorey https://maps.app.goo.gl/Npra5TzKHbV4RfB58 ?

@hdv @dletorey https://chatgpt.com/share/697e353e-ef9c-8009-bdcd-9e24e4f7f953

@matthiasott guten Morgen lieber Matthias! ☕☀️

Ich wünsche Dir alles Gute zum Geburtstag 🎊🎁🎈 und hoffe, Du machst heute etwas Schönes mit Deiner Familie - vielleicht sogar im Schnee? 🌨️❄️☃️

Bis bald hoffentlich ❤️

@svgeesus hey Chris, stumbled upon this article about the (sad) state of HDR in games and thought you might wanna read it too: https://wccftech.com/the-hdr-gaming-interview-veteran-developer-explains-its-sad-state-and-how-hes-coming-to-its-rescue/

Funny how vibe coding is basically cargo culting baked into code.

I really like the new FetchLater API - it doesn’t just keep a request alive after a page is gone like Beacon API does, but it also handles when to send it. Beacon leaves that to you, and no window event (beforeunload, pagehide, etc.) covers all cases - e.g. mobile minimizing suspends it. Plus, you can finally send JSON with application/json instead of text/plain. And it's easier to debug too! 🥳

Would love to see it making an appearance in Firefox and WebKit too, @jaffathecake @jensimmons ❤️

RE: https://front-end.social/@stefan/115527259884590859

If you wanna stay up to date with what the web platform has to offer - and as a front-end dev you should - then Stefan's Web Weekly newsletter is *the* source to learn from. Week after week, Stefan tracks new platform features and articles and distills them into a handy, easy-to-digest newsletter ✨

@closingtag @maddesigns da kam die Golem Plus Werbung wieder. 😭

"retailers say profits this past christmas were lower than expected ... why are people not buying more shit?"

Could also be that there is less and less people left that still have a job (robots / AI):

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@btconf/115416552988043760

This is going to be the last beyond tellerrand in Berlin for a while 👇

@hdv just read your post on workslop and I couldn't agree more! One thing I constantly run into are tickets written via AI that are either overly detailed or describe a task without taking into account the overarching picture (like project guidelines/design guidelines). I think they are good cue givers for writing tickets as they often come up with good points but you have to filter out and correct a lot.

Just learned about the ancient BarProp DOM interface which is supposed to tell you which browser bars are visible: https://mariani.life/projects/dommanual/dom/objects/BarProp.html

HTML trivia: WAI-ARIA 1.3’s aria-brailleroledescription (27 chars) is the longest non-data-* HTML attribute.

Runners-up: onwebkitanimationiteration (26), onsecuritypolicyviolation (25), onwebkitfullscreenchange (24), disablepictureinpicture (23), webkitallowfullscreen (21).

@zachleat wondering who's gonna give the next talk at @smashingconf 🤔

Why is it that Chrome is the only browser that ignores inputmode="none" on inputs?

I want inputs in freshly opened <dialog> elements to not trigger the soft keyboard right away on (auto)focus, but instead when the user signals that they want to enter something, e.g. by a tap on it.

Safari works ✅
Firefox on Android works ✅
Samsung Internet works ✅
Chrome shows the soft keyboard ❌
☹️

Do I really have to inject a dummy element with tabindex="0" before the first input for it to catch focus?

Interestingly, inputmode="none" seems to work here, when dynamically applied: https://codepen.io/mustaqahmed/full/gOYxLaL

What's going on?

@KrijnHoetmer Happy Happy Birthday dear Krijn!!! 🎉🎊🥳🎁🥂 I hope you enjoy a wonderful day ☀️ with your girls - be it at the allotment 🌱 or at the beach 🏖️.

@chrisstoecker das kann doch kein Zufall sein. Ist das, um AI Crawler aus dem Tritt zu bringen?

If you really wanna fuck up tab order, I suggest you try to nest reading-flow into reading-flow into reading-flow...

Woah, totally doesn't work anymore! 😅