2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

zb3

Where are the proposals without signing in?

lloydatkinson

How’s the gap decoration proposal coming along? Last update was the Edge post introducing it…

adverbly

Some of these are pretty huge. Responsive iframes been a long time coming. Good to see.

Onavo

This needs to support category specific ranking. A feature like WebBiDi has nothing to do with the CSS engine team.

culi

The most broken inconsistency across web browsers is printing, print preview, print-related CSS, etc. No print media related features made it onto this list :(

esafak

I love the ranker. Good job, guys; you should open source it.

prmph

A lot of these are CSS-related. Not sure why so much effort is still being devoted to piling kludges upon kludges on the train-wreck that is CSS. CSS is one of the worst (web) technologies, breaking the very concept of composability, a core technique of complexity management. It also has all sorts of constructs trying to replicate the features of a proper programming language. Rampant use of CSS is an architectural smell. And yet people will defend it to death. Every large project I have inherited has massive CSS files filled with hairy rules, utterly unmaintainable despite whatever people will tell you. In my own projects now, large or small, I refuse to use CSS broadly. Except for a few global styles in a single small CSS file, I use inline styles for pretty much everything, combines with other code in a neatly composable components. This works very well. Sorry for my strong opinions, but in my view the over-reliance on CSS and amount of work on it has held back the web from being what it really can be for rich apps. What we should be aiming for is to build in rich and very customizable components right into HTML with real-world sophistication. And allow websites to be installed as apps easily. These alone will do more for the web that all these CSS band-aids.