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Chrome turns on "Always Use Secure Connections" by default in October 2026. Your site is almost certainly on HTTPS — but a single plaintext hop in a redirect chain still triggers the interstitial. Here is how to find yours.
With Safari 26.3 filling the last gap, zstd content-encoding now reaches roughly 84% of global traffic. Here is where it wins over Brotli, where it doesn't, and how to deploy it without breaking your cache.
Chrome has shipped animation-trigger and timeline-trigger, letting you fire fixed-duration CSS animations at a scroll threshold with no JavaScript. Here's how the model works and where it fits in production.
Chrome 151 adds a shadowrootslotassignment attribute to <template>, so server-rendered web components can use manual slotting without a line of JavaScript. Here's what closed, why it matters for SSR, and how to use it.
CSS now has a native if() function that resolves a value against a media query, a feature query, or a style query — right inside the property. Here's how the syntax works, the patterns it replaces, and how to ship it while Firefox and Safari catch up.
The 10x-faster native compiler shipped stable on July 8. But 7.0 ships without a programmatic API, so typescript-eslint, custom transformers, and Vue/Svelte/Astro tooling can't run on it yet. Here's how to adopt TypeScript 7 today without breaking the tools that still need 6.0.
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