Posts about web standards
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2026
- flex-wrap: balance, or How to Stop Your Last Row Looking Broken
Chrome 150 shipped flex-wrap: balance, an eight-year-old proposal that finally kills the orphaned last row. The algorithm behind it is from 1981. Heres how it works, a lab to play with, and why its still Chromium-only.
- CSS Masonry, Finally: The Long Road to grid-lanes
After nine years of arguing, CSS got native masonry. It is not display: masonry, it is display: grid-lanes, and the fight to get there says a lot about how the web is built. Heres how it works, a small lab to test it, and the accessibility catch nobody should ignore.
- HTML-in-Canvas: The proposal that finally bridges the DOM and pixel worlds
Theres a new WICG proposal that lets you draw real HTML elements inside canvas with full CSS, accessibility, and hit testing. No more foreignObject hacks, no more html2canvas. Heres how it works.