Raindrop.io Bookmarks 2025-12-18

2025年12月18日

• Advancing the Open Web, IRL: Global Standards at W3C TPAC 2025 | by CivicActions | CivicActions | Dec, 2025 | Medium

  "My attendance at the W3C's Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings (TPAC) 2025 in Kobe, Japan, was a terrific learning experience. As an Invited Expert of the W3C, attending my first TPAC and visiting Japan for the first time, I felt a degree of apprehension. It was indeed a packed week with a great many meetings to attend and people to engage with."

• LCP and INP are now Baseline Newly available  |  Blog  |  web.dev

  "With the release of Safari 26.2 on December 12th, web performance got a fantastic end of year gift with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Interaction to Next Paint (INP) becoming Baseline Newly available as the latest version of all major browsers now include the Largest Contentful Paint API and Event Timing API needed to measure these metrics."

• Forms are a badly designed part of HTML - HTMHell

  "The innovation of forms should be part of a much larger initiative. WHATWG and W3C demonstrated at the beginning of the millennium that this is possible. After two decades, it is time to revive this spirit and take HTML to a new level."

• My 2025 Indie Web Report and Thoughts on the Open Web | Cybercultural

  "I still think of the web as a platform for creativity and independent thought, which was what initially attracted me to the web in the 1990s when I was a young man. Ok, in 2025 the web is more of a refuge than the catch-all I had hoped it would become in Web 2.0. But the open web as a refuge for creativity and independent thought...heck, that's still something worth fighting for."

• Is it an evil overlay? How can you tell? - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility

  "The "accessibility overlay" we talk about and condemn is a combination of three possible problems: Tools that make presumptions about how a user's disability impacts them. Accessibility remediations that are untargeted and potentially risky. Marketing that states or implies meeting standards or legal requirements."

• Ad Blockers helped kill the open web | Christian Heilmann

  "The big mistake we made is to treat the web like any other publishing platform. We cherished the reach to get to a 24/7 world-wide audience, but our genius idea of making money was to show ads. That worked in classic media, so why not here?"