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With Safari 27 shipping on September 17, sizes="auto" for lazy-loaded images is now Baseline. Here's how it works, where it breaks, and how to delete a pile of fragile sizes strings from your templates.
The October 2026 DevTools update adds an Ads sub-panel to the Application tab with ad density, ad count, and CPU and network usage by ads. Here is how to use it to put numbers on third-party ad cost.
Until now, one dropped request could make a dynamic import() fail for the entire page lifetime. Chrome's new behavior lets you retry failed module fetches, so lazy-loaded features can finally recover on flaky mobile networks.
Chrome 155 ships a new Rust-based JPEG XL decoder in Blink, four years after Google pulled the format from Chromium. Here's the performance case for JXL and how to start testing it without breaking your existing AVIF/WebP pipeline.
An out-of-band Next.js patch fixes a critical remote code execution bug in the Node.js ImageResponse API, traced to how the Satori SVG renderer escapes dynamic input. A second, larger release addressing nine more vulnerabilities ships September 30.
Safari 26.4 shipped the finalized display: grid-lanes syntax for native CSS masonry, with Chrome and Firefox updating their flagged implementations to match. Here's how to adopt it today without breaking keyboard navigation in browsers that don't support it yet.
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