Top 10 web things to know from Google I/O

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Chrome and cross‑browser updates land as concrete features: accent-color is stable so browsers pick accessible foregrounds; HTML dialog and datetime-local inputs are widely available; cascade layers reduce selector wars; Chromium gains bfcache and lazy loading reaches Safari and major CMSs; a new metric, Interaction to Next Paint, tracks all user interactions; trials include CHIPS and the Topics API for privacy‑aware ads; WebAuthn passkeys and the WebCodecs API add syncable credentials and low‑level media encoding; Navigation and Page Transition APIs and new DevTools panels are previewed.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:46Cascade layers, everywhere!
3. 1:05Improving performance across browsers just got easier
4. 2:27One step closer to a passwordless future
5. 2:47Capabilities now available in Chrome Stable
6. 3:52New origin trials on Chrome
7. 4:35Cool new features in Chrome DevTools
8. 5:11Developer Preview: Recorder

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