In this issue, we celebrate a few important milestones in the history of the web. In Browser News, we start with the usual roundup of what's new on the web platform in May. Chrome 114 and Edge 114 are the stable channel release for those browsers, while Safari Technology Preview 117 brings a long list of fixes and adjustments that will arrive in the next Safari update.
On the Release Radar, we have Bootstrap 5.3.0, several releases from Electron, TypeScript 5.1, Vuetify v3.3.0, and a lot more. We round up this edition with a set of resources, including icons, a monospace font, CSS backgrounds, and many typography utilities.
Celebrations
There are many technologies that have helped shape the web. And now we get to celebrate important milestones for a handful of them.
💻 Browser news
Rachel Andrew is back with another roundup of all the changes that happened to the web platform in May. We got new releases for all main browsers: Firefox 113, Chrome 113, Chrome 114, Edge 113, and Safari 16.5. In terms of features for the web platform, we got the WebGPU and Popover APIs, CSS Nesting, CSS Color Level 4 features, and a lot more.
Chrome
Chrome 114 is the latest stable release for the most popular browser. This update brings the new CSS text-wrap: balance feature, and the new Popover API. There's also a new way to manage cookies using CHIPS: Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State.
Developers can now debug WebAssemble code, or test the Core Web Vitals using Lighthouse 10.1.1. More details are available in the official release notes.
Edge
Edge 114 introduces the new Workspaces. This is a way for customers to organize their browsing tasks into dedicated windows, or share a set of browser tabs across working groups.
WebKit
Safari Technology Preview 171 is now available and brings a long list of fixes, changes, and fine tunings.
📡 The Release Radar
- Bootstrap 5.3.0 - The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework
- Deno 1.34 - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
- electron v24.4.0, electron v25.0.0, electron v26.0.0-alpha.1, electron v26.0.0-alpha.2 - Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- ls-lint v2.0.0 - An extremely fast directory and filename linter
- Mongoose 7.2.0 - MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment
- Neutralinojs v4.12.0 - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
- Parcel v2.9.0 - The zero configuration build tool for the web
- Preact 10.15.0 - Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API
- starry-night 2.0.0 - Syntax highlighting, like GitHub
- TypeScript 5.1 - a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
- Vuetify v3.3.0 - Vue Component Framework
🛠️ Front End Resources
- CSS Pattern - Fancy backgrounds with CSS gradients
- Intel One Mono Typeface - an expressive monospaced font family
- Modern fluid typography editor - Generate fluid typography code snippets using modern CSS clamp function
- Realtime Colors - Visualize Your Colors On a Real Website
- Tech Icons - SVG and PNG tech icons
- Typewolf - What’s Trending in Type
- WhatTheFont - MyFonts’ AI-Powered Font Finder
There's more where that came from. Explore the rest of the Front End Resource collection.
Wrapping things up
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