The State of HTML 2024 survey is now open, and Interop 2025 is receiving proposals. We have new browser updates in Chrome 129, Firefox 130, Safari 18, Polypane 21, Vivaldi 6.9, and Wolvic 1.7. On the Release Radar, we have Express 5, Material UI v6, Redwood v8, TypeScript 5.6, Vue 3.5, and more. The Resource Bundle includes avatars, icons, gradient generators, image utilities, an SVG editor, and a set of CSS loading animations.
State of HTML 2024
The 2024 edition of State of HTML 2024 is live. The questions cover more than simple HTML. You'll touch on aspects related to web components, accessibility (a11y), native and web apps, and more. This is your yearly chance to help shape the path the web platform and browsers take.
Interop 2025
The Interop initiative is getting ready for the 2025 edition. You can submit your proposals until October 9th. Do you have any pain points about web browser compatibility? Share your pain; it might be fixed by next year.
💻 Browser News
Web Platform Updates
Do you want to check all the updates to the web platform in a single go? There's no better place than Rachel Andrew's monthly updates. Now for the month of August.
Chrome
Chrome 129 introduces scheduler.yield() (allowing developers to improve perceived performance), CSS animation with intrinsic sizes, and more. Developers also get improvements to performance and elements panels, Lighthouse 12.2.0, and even more fixes.
Firefox
Firefox 130 improves the translation service with new languages and the option to translate selected text to a different language after you translated the entire page. If you live in the USA or Canada, you can also check the local weather directly on the new tab page.
Polypane
Polypane 21 brings better stability for devices running on Apple chips. It upgrades the Chromium platform to version 128. And if you install the 21.1 update, you'll get scroll syncing to all scrollable areas and various improvements and fixes.
Vivaldi
Vivaldi released the 6.9 update for all platforms. Desktop users receive an improved tab management experience. Android users receive a revamped Settings panel. iOS users get desktop-style tabs and finer control of the Address fields. Everyone gets a suite of minor improvements and fixes.
- Desktop: Tab management leveled up, more efficient browsing, and squashed bugs: Vivaldi 6.9 is here!
- Android: Vivaldi 6.9 on Android: Easier than ever to make Vivaldi your own with revamped Settings Menu
- iOS: Vivaldi 6.9 on iOS: desktop-style tabs improvements and finer control of the Address Field
WebKit
Safari 18 is finally here. You can now hide many of the annoying banners you encounter. There is support for the View Transitions API and CSS Style Queries. iPhone mirroring and Safari remote inspection development and debugging are also easier.
The list of new features is long, full of details, and is available in the official post linked below:
Wolvic
We last heard from Wolvic a while ago. The 1.7 update brings OpenXR-enabled hand tracking and OpenXR eye tracking (similar to the features available for Apple Vision Pro). The Gecko engine moved up to version 128, and there are many improvements and fixes.
But wait! There is more! Wolvic also has a Chromium version. Version 1.0 brings this variant closer in feature parity to the Gecko version, with support for eye-tracking navigation.
📡 The Release Radar
- Astro 4.14, Astro 4.15 - the web framework for content-driven websites
- Biome v1.9 - A toolchain for web projects
- Chroma.js v3.0.0, Chroma.js v3.1.0 - JavaScript library for all kinds of color manipulations
- Deno 1.46 - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
- Ember 5.11 - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
- ESLint v9.10.0 - Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code
- Express 5.0.0, Express 4.21.0 - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node
- faker v9.0.0 - Generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js
- Jasmine 5.3.0 - Simple JavaScript testing framework for browsers and node.js
- JsonTree.js v3.0.0 - generates customizable tree views to better visualize JSON data
- Material UI v6, MUI v6.1 - Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design
- Node v22.9.0 (Current), Node v22.8.0 (Current), Node v22.7.0 (Current), Node v20.17.0 (LTS) - An asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime
- NodeBB v3.9.0 - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
- pnpm 9.8, pnpm 9.9, pnpm 9.10 - Fast, disk space efficient package manager
- preact 10.24.0 - Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API
- React Email 3.0 - Build and send emails using React
- Redwood v8.0.0 - The App Framework for Startups
- relay 18.0.0 - a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications
- Storybook 8.3 - the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
- TypeScript 5.6 - A superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
- Vue 3.5 - a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web
- Vuestic UI v1.10.0 - an open-source Vue 3 component library
🛠️ Front End Resources
- Avatars - a collection of diverse free avatar images
- Avaaatars - The largest Library of Avatars, customizable and commercially free
- Gradient Generator - Create & export linear, radial, & conic gradients
- macOSicons - Free 5000+ macOS app icons in the style of macOS Monterey, Big Sur
- Polotno Studio - Free Online Design Editor
- Popicons - Make your designs pop with Popicons
- Slimify - Compress your images in a blink
- SVG WTF - powerful SVG editor
- Whirl - CSS loading animations with minimal effort!
There's more where that came from. Explore the rest of the Front End Resource collection.
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