Comment by Bengalilol
12 days ago
Me: cool, let's be creative, I love 2026.
Browsers: Yeah, but beware of limited availability, most of those creative examples are in the 40-50% browsers support range.
12 days ago
Me: cool, let's be creative, I love 2026.
Browsers: Yeah, but beware of limited availability, most of those creative examples are in the 40-50% browsers support range.
In the past this was a major issue that meant useful features were only ever usable after IE/Safari finally supported them half a decade later, but it has seriously gotten better. Sadly as a result of Chromium's overbearing presence, but it's a helpful outcome at least.
https://wpt.fyi/interop-2025
Problem with safari though is that it’s tied to OS updates that many people just defer for insanely long periods of time. So unlike the other browsers, it’s not evergreen, so if you need to support any iOS users or Mac users who don’t use chrome etc, you’re out of luck
Yeah that definitely sucks. I have seen MacOS Safari updates come though separately in Preferences.app > General > Software Update, but I think that release channel is for security issues.
Saying that, MacOS and iOS generally (up until recently, from what I've heard) have very good uptake rates for major updates. It's become less awful standards-wise as time has gone on in my experience at least.
It takes time. Browser vendors add support for those features now, in the hope that they will become widely available one day.
> most of those creative examples are in the 40-50% browsers support range.
Not if you filter the examples. Click "widely available".
First widely available one I saw was this: https://modern-css.com/staggered-animations-without-nth-chil...
That would actually fix some ugly CSS I have. The demo works. Neat.
Except... the demo doesn't use either the old syntax or the new syntax. The browser support is wrong (Firefox doesn't support it, the site says Firefox 16+; it says Chrome 43+ but in reality it's much newer: Chrome 148+). It says "Since 2018" but the spec was introduced in 2024.
So maybe an interesting overview of things that might be available or might not, but the filtering and data on the site doesn't seem to be useful.
Yeah a lot of these demos say the features are widely available, but they don't actually work in my browser (Firefox on Macos).
Makes me wonder if these demos (or the browser support tables) were made by LLMs. They clearly haven't tested the demos in firefox.
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> First widely available one I saw
Could you try again? I couldn’t replicate this and when I follow your link it says “limited availability”.
Also one of the features that I want -- scrollbar-gutter: stable -- is shown everywhere as being stable for many Safari versions, but when I try it it just didn't work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯