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State of HTML 2024, Interop 2025, Chrome 129, Firefox 130, Safari 18, TypeScript 5.6, and more | Front End News #111

NOTE: This is issue #111 of my newsletter, which went live on Friday, September 20. You might find this information valuable and exciting and want to receive future issues as they are published ahead of everyone else. In that case, I invite you to join the subscriber list at frontendnexus.com.


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.


πŸ’» 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.

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.


πŸ“‘ The Release Radar


πŸ› οΈ 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.


Wrapping things up

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