I’ve gotten pretty excited about the new features coming to web browsers. Invoker commands are a great example. It’s ...

I’ve gotten pretty excited about the new features coming to web browsers. Invoker commands are a great example. It’s a very simple idea: you can declaratively state that an interactive element such as <button> when triggered performs some sort of command targeting another element. There are several built-in commands like toggle-modal, show-popover, etc. So you can implement many of the most common interactions declaratively, with no JavaScript, and with full accessibility. Invoker commands are one of the many proposal coming out of the Open UI group at the W3C which is pushing the standards community and browser implementors to add features that allow for more customizability and extension of built-in controls like <select>, <textarea>, radio buttons, etc. Also: I’m also really enjoying the Website Specification: a lightly-opinionated standards-first look at good modern web practices. It’s written to be easily understood both by humans and by AI agents. They have an MCP service which…