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Google describes shipping modern web guidance, a set of agent skills trained on new CSS/HTML plus progressive enhancement fallbacks so models stop regurgitating decade‑old Stack Overflow code. Browser interop work appears ongoing; Safari 27 is called out as adding customizable select and anchoring. A proposed interest button pseudo‑element aims to solve mobile hover accessibility, with debate over default vs opt‑in. Hypermedia approaches (HTMX, DataStar) claim to cut client JS, fit caching, and not add latency.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:14Google's web standards role
- 2:39AI guidance for CSS features
- 3:42Hypermedia caching efficiency
- 4:43Unresolved CSS/HTML features
- 5:47Hypermedia vs declarative UI
- 7:53Progressive enhancement
- 8:58CSS animations carbon cost
- 10:02Hypermedia as framework replacement
- 11:06Web standards complexity
- 12:10Developer obsolescence
- 13:14Future of engineering
- 14:36Conference design trends
- 15:39Web evolution and users
- 16:22Premium web in AI future
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