If you’re not already familiar with Stefan Judis‘ Web Weekly newsletter, highly recommend you sign-up! But if not, I will always try to highlight what I find interesting from it… From his latest:
- Familiar with
dialog‘sclosedbyattribute? Yeah, me neither, but quite useful! Not yet Baseline (only Safari is lacking) but seems an easy thing to polyfill. ::details-contentmade a splash when it became Baseline! Super useful for styling the contents of adetailselement. Now if we could only triggerdetailselement to be open via CSS (would be handy for print stylesheets)…- Another new-to-me item (although Bramus Van Damme told us about it nearly a year ago!) is the
metaviewportelement’sinteractive-widgetkeyword. This tells the browser how to react to “interactive widgets”, like the Virtual Keyboard. Helpful when you have thingsposition: fixed, etc. - Stefan himself points out that Header & footer elements change their roles when they’re inside of sectioning content… 😳 I was shocked, and a little annoyed… And although you can manually add ARIA roles, that also seems like it should be superfluous…
- Did you know
field-sizing: contentcan be used for more than justtextarea? Well, not in Firefox or Safari (in TP), but in all other browsers, you can also add it toinputandselectelements!
Christian Heilmann takes us in a magical trip down memory lane, exploring the ins and outs of our old HTML friends, links and anchors (not to be confused with chutes and ladders… which also take us places!). Also quite educational, as I had no idea about document.anchors and document.links!
Now grab a very large, very strong coffee, maybe something sugary too, because Adam Argyle is about to take you on a mad-fast run through 25 (-ish?) new & rad CSS features (YouTube). But seriously, fast… Probably the only YouTube video I have ever changed the playback speed to slower… Okay, they’re not all CSS, but every slide, such power…
When I think about web performance, I can promise you that I never thought the URL itself. But Ahmad Alfy has, and is here to tell us all about The Hidden Cost of URL Design. I had often thought about the URL with respect to SEO, but never WPO…
Speaking of performance, Jono Alderson presents A complete guide to HTTP caching. As the title promises, quite thorough, bravo Jono!
I was not familiar with WP Accessibility Day, but having started in 2020, the 5th annual 24-hour global event happened October 15-16, 2025. I have only been able to find the videos from 2025, but based on this video playlist from 2024, I would hope they are incoming soon?
Has anyone started digging into the Chrome DevTools MCP Server yet? I have not, but plan to soon, and have started collecting links, and this one targeting Performance Debugging from DebugBear is going to be high on my list!
Rand Fishkin explains why In a Zero-Click World, Traffic is a Terrible Goal. As people migrate from search engines to AI for answers, and even the search engines switch from offering search results for you to click through to, with AI-generated content intent on answering the user’s question, there simply is no click-through anymore…
And finally, for any other history nerds out there, the Derbyshire Record Office, who are “responsible for preserving the history of the city of Derby and the county of Derbyshire in the United Kingdom” (yeah, that’s right!), present a little time travel with 800 Years of English Handwriting. Amazing to me how recent you have to get to find anything even remotely recognizable… Amazing that this is all the same language…
Happy reading,
Atg