Web Browsers/Web Servers/Web Frameworks

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 21, 2025

• Thomas Günther ☛ Trusting the browser · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther

  It feels absolutely amazing to use built-in HTML elements like , or useful features like display: contents. It’s also great how many, often invisible, features are included in the browser’s implementations of the basics of HTML and CSS to make them accessible.

  Instead of building our own custom solutions and having to remember implementing things like keyboard navigation, landmarks, focus management or screen reader announcements ourselves, we can just lean back. Or can we?

  Over the years, browsers shipped many features that were supposed to be accessible but ended up being not ❶ .

• Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

  • Kiwi TCMS: Private Tenant Subscription Explained

    Hello testers, this page explains what the Private Tenant subscription is and how it brings more value beyond the Kiwi TCMS application itself. Please read about the details below.

    What is Private Tenant by Kiwi TCMS

    This is our most popular subscription tier which combines SaaS hosting and additional support services. It is more about ease of use allowing your QA team to focus on more testing rather than specific software features.

  • Kiwi TCMS: Self Support Subscription Explained

    Hello testers, this page explains what the Self Support subscription is and how it brings a bit more value beyond the Kiwi TCMS application itself. You can read about the details below.

    What is Self Support by Kiwi TCMS

    This is our lowest-tier of support services, where the majority of the work falls onto the customer to host and run the Kiwi TCMS application. It is an entry-level subscription which provides the basis for all other subscriptions.

• Chromium

  • Linuxiac ☛ Linux Gets HDR Support in Chromium on Wayland

    Chromium’s HDR support for Wayland has been merged, enhancing video playback on Linux, with NVIDIA GPU decoding still a question mark.

• Standards/Consortia

  • The Register UK ☛ IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers

    A pair of networking researchers have proposed that the Internet Engineering Task Force define support for IPv6 as a best practice for operators of DNS resolvers – the servers that translate URLs into IP addresses – and one of them hopes adoption of the idea will accelerate the demise of IPv4.

  • Watts Martin ☛ Seriously, Markdown

    All right, let’s be slightly more serious. Yes, there are countless different Markdown processors out there, and yes, all of them handle edge cases differently. But where they “fail” 99% of the time are edge cases, and if you follow reasonably good practices—the sort of nitpicky things that MarkdownLint whines about—you’re pretty unlikely to run into trouble. I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I’ve never had to learn a “new” style of Markdown or unlearn bad habits from previous work.