2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

When I was first creating for the web, “The Web Platform” was made up of “whatever Microsoft and Netscape thought would help them obliterate the other.” A lot of what that meant? Write two sets of code to do the same thing. I can probably still write the Flash <embed> and <object> off the top of my head. I wrote about my appreciation for “write-once-2020s” in The Web Is Better. In 2026, The Web Platform is made of not just megacorporations, but people. The Interop Project has a mission of improve interoperability significantly for the benefit of users and web developers. It does this by soliciting the opinions of those who are interested, including web developers such as myself. My rankings Improve interoperability of pointer events on touch devices CSS flex-wrap: balance. Distributes items in a multi-line flex container so each line has about the same number of items. CSS grid lanes (masonry). display: grid-lanes creates a layout where items are tightly packed into parallel lanes.…