Solved: AI coding tools that hallucinate legacy web practices. Modern Web Guidance codifies decades of Chrome's platform expertise into your agents. Level up with guides for web best practices and new platform features, using Baseline data for cross-browser reliability → goo.gle/4on8BMS
These might be the biggest changes to HTML in decades. Declarative Partial Updates let you render out-of-order HTML and build UI placeholders with zero JS. Combine it with the new streaming APIs to fetch and inject HTML directly into the DOM, simplifying Island architecture → goo.gle/49Bz9nK
Chrome 149 DevTools has shipped → goo.gle/4v55cVT
Stay in your flow with these key updates:
💡 Agent walkthrough & Copy to coding agent in AI assistance
🎨 CSS Code Completion from Gemini in the Styles tab
🤖 WebMCP debugging tools in Application panel
🚀 DevTools for agents 1.0 with custom tools
Element-Scoped View Transitions have shipped in Chrome 147! Call element.startViewTransition() to start a View Transition on a specific DOM subtree while keeping the rest of the page interactive. Perfect for building incredible, isolated micro-interactions → goo.gle/4gal7xc
May brought big updates to the web platform: You can now use native lazy loading for video and audio elements to easily save bandwidth and boost performance. Plus, CSS name-only container queries are Baseline newly available, simplifying your code → goo.gle/4dWV8qn
We walked the floor at #GoogleIO and asked developers one simple question: What was your favorite part of I/O this year? 🎤
Using canvas on the web usually means sacrificing browser features, but not anymore. The HTML-in-Canvas API lets you integrate real DOM elements directly into the canvas to build complex 3D web UIs that are fully inspectable, translatable, and accessible → goo.gle/4gal7xc
Balancing advanced, engaging experiences with core web performance is a big challenge. In case you missed the latest announcements from #GoogleIO, new features like Modern Web Guidance, DevTools for agents, and HTML-in-Canvas are here to help make it easier.
The WebMCP origin trial is available in Chrome 149 → goo.gle/4x97wMK
By joining, you can integrate WebMCP for live testing, gather user feedback, and directly inform future iterations of the API.
Chrome 149 has landed → goo.gle/4uSvj2a
Say goodbye to hacky borders and pseudo-elements—you can now natively style container gaps using CSS gap decorations. Plus, active WebSockets will no longer block your pages from instantly restoring via the bfcache!
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