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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
What Arrived in HTML 2023–2026: search, popover, Invoker Commands, Customizable Select and What's Next
HTML has no versions, only Baseline dates: between 2023 and 2026, search, inert, exclusive details, popover, requestClose, Invoker Commands, :open and autocorrect became Baseline; but because Angular 22 targets widely available, only search and inert work in every browser it supports. In this post we lay out the timeline, the features not yet Baseline, Interop 2026, and a decision table for Bookstore built from web-features data.
How HTML Works: The Living Standard, Document Structure and the Forgiving Parser
HTML has no version: the WHATWG's continuously updated Living Standard is the reference, and Baseline tells you whether you can use a feature. In this post we look at the minimal valid document, the element/attribute/void element/content model concepts and how the parser silently repairs broken markup, with real DOM output from Chromium and WebKit, and catch the errors with the Nu Html Checker.