Posts tagged #web-apis — Page 3

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.

CSS @scope reached full browser support in December 2025 — here's how to use it to write component-scoped styles without CSS Modules, BEM, or a build step.

The @starting-style rule gives CSS transitions a starting point when elements first appear, enabling smooth entry animations from display:none or fresh DOM insertion — no JavaScript required.

A practical guide to prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-color-scheme, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors — the CSS media queries that respect user accessibility settings with zero JavaScript.

The new ::search-text pseudo-element lets you style the highlights from Ctrl+F find-in-page, so they finally match your site instead of clashing with it.

The Speculation Rules API lets you tell the browser which pages to prefetch or fully prerender in the background — delivering near-instant navigations with a few lines of JSON and no framework required.

CSS scroll-driven animations let you create silky-smooth scroll effects — progress bars, reveal animations, parallax — using pure CSS with zero JavaScript.

The old window.ethereum trick breaks when users have multiple wallets installed. Here's how EIP-6963 and wagmi v2 solve multi-wallet discovery cleanly, with real TypeScript examples.