#webapis

Almost every laptop shipped in the last two years has a neural processing unit sitting idle. WebNN is the only web standard that can actually talk to it, and it just hit an updated Candidate Recommendation.

OneOf Input Objects landed in the September 2025 GraphQL spec, which means the exactly-one-of-these-arguments rule you've been enforcing in resolver code is now something the type system can do for you.

Sticky headers, snapped carousel slides, and scroll shadows have all been JavaScript jobs for a decade. Scroll-state container queries hand that work back to CSS.

Your app already runs in five tabs at once, and they all think they are in charge. The Web Locks API gives the browser a real mutex so only one of them does the work.

Chrome 148 ships experimental support for filling HTML placeholders out of order and streaming markup into the DOM. Here's how the new template-for and streamHTML APIs work, and what they replace.

Custom elements can be real form controls. Here is how formAssociated, ElementInternals, and setValidity retire the hidden-input hack for good.

Next.js 16 gave cache invalidation two different functions instead of one, and the split maps to a real distinction: content that can lag versus content the user just typed.

Firefox 148 shipped Trusted Types in February 2026, making it Baseline. Here's how to turn every dangerous innerHTML assignment in your app into a TypeError you can actually catch.

Your field data says INP is 400ms. Your local profile says everything is fine. The Long Animation Frames API closes that gap by naming the script, the function, and the character position that stalled the frame.

The Invoker Commands API lets a button declare what it controls with command and commandfor, replacing modal and popover glue code with plain HTML.

The Navigation API hit Baseline in early 2026, giving SPAs a single, purpose-built place to intercept and manage routing. Here's why it finally replaces the History API.

A practical look at scheduler.yield(), the browser API that breaks up long tasks and keeps the main thread responsive without the setTimeout penalty.