A Guide to Using Well-Known URIs Effectively
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Well-known URIs should be reserved for efficient site-wide discovery when providing a full URL is not an option.
Web Standards
Proposed and established web standards, specifications, and browser APIs that shape how the web platform evolves.
Reading List
Paper – design, share, ship
Paper is a web-standard design canvas that integrates AI agents and live code to create a seamless, automated design-to-production workflow.
Native Accessibility: Building Self-Correcting Themes with CSS contrast-color()
The CSS contrast-color() function provides a native, performant way to automate text accessibility by letting the browser calculate the best contrast color at runtime.
Beyond Tailwind: Structuring Modern Vanilla CSS
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The author is moving from Tailwind to vanilla CSS to leverage modern web standards and gain more creative control over their site's architecture.
Is Your Website Ready for AI Agents?
112
Cloudflare's scanner evaluates and helps improve website compatibility with AI agents through emerging technical standards.
WebMCP: Building a Standardized Bridge for AI Agents
359
WebMCP introduces standardized APIs to enable faster, more precise, and reliable interactions between AI agents and websites.
WebMCP: Connecting Web Apps to AI Agents via JavaScript Tools
153
WebMCP is a JavaScript API that allows web applications to provide executable tools and context to AI agents.
Modern CSS: Replacing Old Hacks with Native Power
708
Native CSS now provides clean, performant replacements for the complex hacks, JavaScript libraries, and preprocessors that were once essential for web development.
Grid Lanes: Native Masonry Layouts with CSS Grid
754
Native masonry arrives in CSS: Grid Lanes uses standard Grid syntax to pack items into flexible lanes, with automatic orientation and tunable placement sensitivity.
Modern CSS, No Build: How 37signals Ships Complex Apps with Vanilla Styles
126
Modern CSS is powerful enough to build complex, maintainable apps without Tailwind or preprocessors—keep it simple and semantic.
Do Not Comply: Resisting Google’s XSLT Deprecation and the Corporate Capture of the Web
418
Refuse Google’s XSLT deprecation, keep using open formats, and push back against a corporate-controlled web that’s sidelining the user agent.