Try Text Scaling Support in Chrome Canary — The new text-scale meta tag is now available for testing behind a flag in Canary. It’s designed to respect a user’s text size preferences on the web, and essentially handle scaling in a way that simply zooming often fails at. Josh sums it up: “the <meta name="text-scale"> tells the browser, ‘Hey, I’ve designed my website to still work if the user increases their OS text size’”.

Josh Tumath

⚡️ IN BRIEF

🔎 Google has announced a restructuring its Programmable Search Engine (PSE) offerings, providing more specialized tools for site exploration, enterprise AI search, and full web indexing.

🖼️ Support for the JPEG-XL image format has been on something of a journey, but its fortunes are seemingly turning around, slowly.

🤝 Mozilla is attempting to build what it calls an AI ‘rebel alliance’. Not everyone is a fan of the plans...

🌐 You may think of Netscape as a relic of the 90s, but it had a surprisingly protracted demise — the brand was kicking around in until late 2025!

📙 Articles, Opinions & Tutorials

Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts — A solid look at how elements are stacked on a page, what controls the stacking order, and practical approaches to “unstack” elements when needed.

Gabriel Shoyombo

🧰 Tools, Code & Resources

🎨 Color Palette Pro: Color Palette Tool with a ‘Synth-Like’ UI — Its skeuomorphic design mirrors that of a would-be hardware device. Supports numerous color spaces, six palette types, and results are shareable. Use the live color picker to grab any color for a palette starting point. Fun to play with!

Color Palette Pro

💡 Typed.js is another option in this space which hit version 3.0 this week.

🍌 ...and finally

Developer Twilight has done an impressive job of porting the SEGA classic ‘Super Monkey Ball’ to the web — and it is smooth. Play it here (even on mobile), or take a look at the source code.

💡 Fancy something a bit edgier? How about a Three.js port of Quake!