Paul Kinlan

The UK competition regulator has published conduct requirements to make Apple open access to NFC on iOS. Access was *technically* allowed 2 years ago but no-one has used it because of Apple's Ts&Cs - just like with browser engines.

The `unload` event no longer fires in Chrome by default! Since the advent of the mobile web this has become increasingly unreliable and we think that's a footgun for devs who might think it works. We've spent the last 3 years carefully removing it from Chrome. developer.chrome.com/blog/unload-...

What do you want us to work on in 2027? Here's a web app where you can rank the Interop proposals you care about, giving us data we can use to prioritise feature development. interop-rank.fxdx.dev

A little summary of my experience at Fronteers Dark Mode, a breakdown of the header effect of my demo, and a tiny bit of yapping at the end on existential dread in the age of AI 💁🏻‍♀️ @fronteers.bsky.social cydstumpel.nl/demo-deep-di...

Here, a demo that compares the 4 values: codepen.io/editor/bramu... (`chain` is new; Chromium only for now)

And the eval numbers. Across 132 tasks (1,124 assertions), pass rates without MWG → with MWG: Claude Code (Sonnet 5): 54% → 87% Antigravity (Gemini 3.8 Flash): 65% → 91% Codex (GPT-5.6): 59% → 81% Same agents, same tasks. The only difference is the guidance.

Credits for this release: dark mode toggle, @supports, CSS reorg by @lea.verou.me INP + media lazy-loading by @malchata.bsky.social WebOTP + passkey updates by @agektmr.com OS text scale by @sturobson.com exit animations by me WebMCP by François Beaufort and Kasper Kulikowski

Modern Web Guidance v0.0.192 is out. With it your coding agent now knows how to: • build SMS one-time-code forms that autofill (WebOTP) • make dark mode toggles that follow the OS • honor the OS text size setting • reduce INP and lazy-load video/audio • feature-detect CSS at-rules with @supports

How to capture device audio on the web today? 🎵🔊 getUserMedia() is not for audio only and forces users to go through a screen sharing option. Not great for audio use cases (notetaking, music, ...) We want to fix this. We have a proposal and would love your input ♥️

After 7.5 months of tweaking, reviewing, and rewriting, the docs for Scroll-Triggered Animations have landed on @developer.mozilla.org (MDN)! → developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... Congrats and thanks to Chris Mills and @estelle.bsky.social for their hard work and sweating the details on this!

web dev is fine. standards, delivery and maintenance remain important as ever and require humans and machines both. heavyweight abstraction framework based dev doesn't really make much sense anymore as particular syntax affordances don't matter much to a machine. as always, outcomes > outputs.

Connection Allowlists announcement blog post has been published. developer.chrome.com/blog/connect...

In my post "damn Claude, that's a lot of commits" aifoc.us/damn-claude-thats-a-lot-of-commits/ I found that in March, users of Claude made about 2.6 million public, Claude attributed commits a week. I just ran the same script again, it's now about 7m a week (in just 6 months)

Would be interesting to compare and contrast this with India. In my short time in both countries (but continuously speaking to Devs) the tone and expectation feels very different than Europe and US

🆕 Customize MDN's browser compat tables! Press ⚙️ Settings on any compat table to choose which browsers and engines you see, and hide the ones you don't need. Your picks are saved in your browser. Try it 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

For some history: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr... I’m so glad it’s finally happening, it’s much safer adding 3rd party content in an iframe, than a script with no restrictions.

Power of the web. No native or install needed.

Another week, another package: show-keystrokes.netlify.app The native app I typically use to display keystrokes on the screen is disallowed by a corp policy. So I wrote a component to fill that gap. Embed it on your site and you’re good to go.

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Modern Web Guidance v0.0.187 brings new and updated guides and Codex plugin support → goo.gle/4harAXQ ✨ New guides: progress rings, scrollspy nav menus, loading spinners 📝 Updated guidance to avoid bfcache breakage and unwanted inline layout gaps 🔌 Added plugin manifest support for Codex

It's been amazing to see this come to life. I was also pleased to see devtools which highlights the ads on a page too

Every site owner running ads (especially a lot of ads) should run this TODAY :) -> Google debuts ‘ad detection tool,’ letting marketers better assess ad experiences in Chrome "We’ve all encountered overwhelming ad experiences on the web,”...

Friends! I tried my best. My daughter wanted a fully functioning paper car and then left me about 5 minutes into the 1 hour job

Looks so good it's like the colour palette was designed solely to create this image.

AI Assisted Web Development, by @bandarra.me (@paul.kinlan.me): https://aifoc.us/ai-assisted-webdev/?ref=frontenddogma.com #ai #processes

Blink: Intent to Prototype: Declarative fragments

🔥 New blog post: In defense of polyfills A highly influential spec editor expressed the opinion that polyfilling is harmful. I beg to differ. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/po...

Exciting to be here in Bengaluru. The Livestream has started, where I will be giving a keynote with Swetha about Chrome and the Web. It will be fun. We've got a lot of great partners to talk about and some fun things to demo www.youtube.com/live/y4AHfhP...

"I learned the hard way how to design useless APIs. I still remember how I would spend most of the time making sure that my API was mapping the underlying data model. Or, how I would obsess over the details of the API definition." apichangelog.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

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What are people's favourite extensions in pi?

How might a Lighthouse testing tools work with LLMs and Agent harnesses. aifoc.us/how-might-a-... I had a lot of fun building this, and I think that this is one very useful and practical way web dev, loops and goals will change this year

One of the best skills that no one knows about: Probably one of the best skills that no one knows about: github.com/ChromeDevToo...

Can the presence of a URL in an LLM prompt influence the output based on the content of that URL? I think, yes! But it took me weeks of experimentation and I learnt a lot about what User Agents do and what data is in the models aifoc.us/influencing-...

Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma

I spent some time this morning playing with their endpoints ... I genuinely believe this is the first time that a google account and facebook account interoperate in an unified account chooser that websites can use to login to their websites.

Facebook just recently exposed themselves as a FedCM IdP!! developers.facebook.com/documentatio... I think this is pretty awesome, including to the atproto ecosystem, because it one more step towards making IdPs interoperate with one another!

Brilliant find, have added Claude back into my Real LLM Bot IP? Tool, so you can see if it's really Claude come a crawlin` tamethebots.com/tools/real-l...

One of the best changes to HTML IMO in a long time. This API (well, maybe it's not an API) has the chance to change how we build sites - and it's an actual good use for the <template> element :D

One of the most underrated events in Chrome. Helps you work out if autofill actually helps your users (hint, it does in nearly every case)