una.im | Updates to the customizable select API

It’s great to see the evolution of HTML happening in response to real use-cases—the turbo-charging of the select element just gets better and better!

una.im | Updates to the customizable select API

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Progressive enhancement is about building something robust, that works everywhere, and then making it better where possible.

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Interop Feature Ranking

This is a nifty initiative:

This site lets you rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which proposals should be taken on for 2026.

For the record, here’s my top ten:

  1. Cross-document view transitions
  2. Speculation Rules API
  3. img sizes="auto" loading="lazy"
  4. Customizable/stylable select
  5. Invoker commands
  6. Interoperable rendering of HTML fieldset/legend
  7. Web Share API
  8. CSS scroll-driven animations
  9. CSS accent-color property
  10. CSS hanging-punctuation property

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