981: Browsers Are Finally Catching Up (Interop 2026)
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats · Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers
February 23, 202651m 25s
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Show Notes
Scott and Wes unpack Interop 2026 and the browser features finally aligning across engines, from container style queries and anchor positioning to scroll-driven animations and view transitions. They break down what it all means for day-to-day devs and how close we really are to a fully interoperable web.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:21 What is Interop?
- 02:44 Container Style Queries.
- 09:32 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 09:57 Anchor Positioning.
- 12:01 CSS attr().
- 15:40 CSS Contrast-color.
- 19:10 CSS Zoom.
- 21:36 CSS Custom Highlight API.
- 24:02 Dialogs and Popovers.
- 25:44 Fetch Uploads and Ranges.
- 27:48 IndexedDB.
- 28:25 JSPI for Wasm.
- 29:05 Media Pseudo-Classes.
- 30:00 Navigation API.
- 31:53 Scoped Custom Element Registries.
- 32:40 Scroll-Driven Animations.
- 33:30 Scroll Snap.
- 36:50 CSS Shape().
- 38:25 View Transitions.
- 41:32 Web Compat.
- 42:29 WebRTC Improvements.
- 43:44 WebTransport.
- 45:44 Investigation Efforts.
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