Author: Paul Lewis

TL;DR

The new CSS Containment property lets developers limit the scope of the browser’s styles, layout and paint work.

A previous version of the CSS Flexible Box Layout specification set the static position of absolute-positioned children as though they were a 0x0 flex item. The latest version of the…

Author: Rob Dodson

CSS variables, more accurately known as CSS custom properties, are landing in Chrome 49. They can be useful for reducing repetition in CSS, and also for powerful runtime effects like theme switching and potentially…

Prior to Chrome 50, push messages could not contain any payload data. When the ‘push’ event fired in your service worker, all you knew was the the server was trying to tell you something, but not what it might be. You then had to make a…

Author: Surma

Let’s say you want to track when an element in your DOM enters the visible viewport. You might want to do this so you can lazy-load images just in time or because you need to know if the user is actually looking at a…

Author: Sam Dutton

From Chrome 52, WebRTC uses a much more efficient and secure algorithm for certificate (RTCCertificate) generation: ECDSA. In addition, RTCCertificates can now…

Author: Chris Wilson

With Chrome 52, we’re introducing the ability to make storage persistent. Storage for web applications is a complex topic, and persistence for data on the frequently-ephemeral web doubly so, so I should explain.

Author: Owen Campbell-Moore, William Denniss

We all love how native apps will ask you to login only once and then remember you until…