We're finally getting a element we can fully control with CSS! A bunch of other stuff needed to be added to the platform to make it work, and the good news is we can use it a lot of them independently of .

Resources:

• Chrome's article on the new , and how you can provide feedback.
• The CSS appearance property. Nope, I still don't know what it does.
• The Popover API.
• "On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do" by Hidde de Vries and Scott O'Hara.
• The CSS anchor positioning API.
• The previous spatnav spec effort.
• The hidden attribute until-found value (sorry, I said if-found in the episode).
• The CSS element function.
• Timing of cloning for the element.
• Animating to height auto.
• The new entry-exit animation feautres.
• The proposed command and commandfor attributes which give buttons declaritive activation behavior.

Chrome is experimenting with exposing an LLM to the web platform. Jake and Surma dig into how the API works, and whether something like this could work on the open web.

Resources:

• The explainer
• ChatGPT functions
• Chrome's initial vague docs about the feature
• Gemini terms of use
• The EURion constellation
• WebNN

Luca found a hidden Chrome extension that is installed by default in Chrome and most Chromium derivatives. Surma and Jake dig into what this extensions does and how reasonable it is to get angry about it.

Resources:

• Luca’s original tweet thread
• The extension’s source code
• Discussion on blink-dev
• The original PR that introduced the extension
• Brendan Eich’s response
• Brave PR disabling the extension