What do you need most from WebKit (the rendering engine for Safari that runs your HTML, CSS, JS, and more)? If you are making websites, what could we do in WebKit to make it easier for you to create fantastic experiences for your users?

Imagine one group advocates for a new web technology, and write down their ideas. And then other people have concerns about those ideas (maybe thinking it’s not well designed, not easy for developers to use, invades privacy, isn’t secure, etc)… so they are totally not on board. If those ideas end up in a web standards group anyway, and get pushed through while the original group still objects — is that a web standard or not? If a browser formally objects & refuses to ship, is it a web standard?

Now that you’ve seen what’s coming in Safari 26… web designers & developers, what do you need most to come next? If you were setting the priorities for what happens, what would you put at the top of the list?

If you make websites — as a developer, designer, product owner or more — what’s your favorite way to learn about what’s new on the web? What type of content do you find most helpful? Where are some of your favorite resources? What’s hard? What doesn’t work? Why? What do you need that you don’t have now? What do you want to learn? What could unblock you? If you could wave a magic wand, what would you want someone to make for you???

Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.

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How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired wi...

Hey, let me write about this new CSS property, I said. It'll be easy, I said. It's such a simply property… oh wait, what? Why does this demo not seem to work? Oh it does work. But the thing underneath it is flawed? Everyone agrees it needs to be better. People have been working on it for YEARS? Oh. Ok I'll explain that. And just get a few people to review this… wait, what else? Ok add an entire new section. Oh. Rewrite all this? Weeks later… Ok, I'll rewrite this whole section again… And this…