Styling the Native <select> with appearance: base-select
CSS can finally style a real select, picker and all. The opt-in also takes over the phone's own picker, so the job is scoping it to the devices where your design is the better one.
Tagged Web Components
Responsive Components for Layouts You'll Never See
Swap a card's viewport media query for a container query the host establishes, find the breakpoints its content needs, and keep user preferences and product intent in the mechanisms that own them.
The Brief #26.38 · Safari 27, layouts for foldables, and Gemini voice models
Apple put a sale date on its first foldable iPhone, so screens that fold in half are about to get a lot more common. Google's live voice models went generally available, Firefox changed a scrollbar check that may unhide styles you wrote, OpenAI deleted the line about training on the mathematicians' drafts, Safari 27 reached phones, tablets, and laptops, and Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify.
How to Choose a Frontend Technology for the Long Term
A practical way to evaluate a frontend technology as a long-term commitment, from how much of your app it takes over to what replacing it would cost, with my own decision to build on Lit as the example.
The Brief #26.36 · Claude Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Chrome 152, and Cursor loses GPT
Claude Fable 5.1 took the top of the model table, Gemini 3.8 Flash came in as the fastest model on it, Chrome and Firefox both shipped, OpenAI is cutting Cursor off, and Go, Flutter, and Dart join The Brief.