A Native Definition of Visibility
The days of hacking around offsetParent and opacity: 0 are over thanks to a new DOM method that actually understands what 'visible' means in a modern CSS world.
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The Gentle Timing of :user-valid
Modern CSS finally knows how to stay quiet about form errors until the user actually finishes typing, making your validation logic significantly less aggressive.
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A Smooth Entry for the Hidden Element
We finally have a native way to animate elements as they are added to the DOM or transitioned from 'display: none' without reaching for JavaScript hacks.
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CSS Is Finally Reading Your HTML
The new CSS attr() specification is finally breaking free from the 'content' property, allowing you to pass colors, lengths, and numbers directly from HTML attributes into your styles.
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A Private Vocabulary for Your Component’s State
Learn why the CustomStateSet API is the final piece of the encapsulation puzzle for developers tired of polluting their HTML with styling-only attributes.
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The Night My UI Traveled Back in Time: How I Finally Mastered Causal Consistency for Local-First Apps
Why simple timestamps are a recipe for data corruption in collaborative apps and how I traded them for the mathematical certainty of version vectors.
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What Nobody Tells You About the Virtual Keyboard API: How to Finally Stop Your Mobile Forms From Being Buried
Stop fighting the visual viewport and learn how to use the `overlaysContent` property to design mobile forms that actually stay visible when the keyboard appears.
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How to Format Complex Currencies and Units Without a Heavy Internationalization Library
Stop shipping massive localization bundles and start using the built-in Intl.NumberFormat API to handle everything from currency conversion to compact scientific notation.
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3 Reasons Your Stream-Based Logic Is Still Causing Memory Spikes
A deep dive into the 'desiredSize' signal and why simply wrapping a data source in a ReadableStream isn't enough to prevent OOM errors.
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4 Patterns for High-Performance TypeScript Types (And a Faster IDE)
Eliminate the 'Initializing JS/TS Language Service' lag by optimizing your type definitions for the compiler's hot path.
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