A Pragmatic Guide to Browser Support – Rachel Andrew
summary
Defines Baseline newly available (all major browsers current release) and Baseline widely available (after 30 months), advises using widely available as a default but choosing a Baseline year via the Google Analytics Baseline checker; shows tooling support in VS Code, Chrome DevTools, Browserslist and ESLint; gives concrete feature status: container queries and subgrid are widely available, registered custom properties are Baseline 2024, grid lanes (masonry) is in Safari only, temporal API and scroll-driven animations are missing in some browsers; warns that most polyfills aren’t “gold standard.”
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Browser support challenges
- 1:05Baseline project overview
- 3:19Baseline new features
- 6:50Audience-specific support
- 9:01Progressive enhancement
- 12:09Polyfills and limits
- 15:37CSS masonry polyfill
- 18:09Future-proofing with Baseline
- 22:40Single-browser implementations
- 26:14Interop and feature stability
- 29:20Missing features workarounds
- 31:46Advocating for web features
- 33:53AI tools guidance
- 35:36Support decisions key points
- 38:04Conclusion
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