Firefox 157 will enable JPEG XL decoding by default, Chrome plans to follow, and a new Rust‑based decoder addresses long‑standing memory‑safety concerns, while Mozilla’s docs compare JPEG XL with AVIF, highlighting lossless performance and progressive rendering advantages that could bring full cross‑browser support by year‑end.
The article explains how CSS has finally added native Masonry layout support, detailing its history, the two syntax options (display: masonry and grid-template-columns: masonry), performance benefits, practical code examples, and current browser support status.
In Chrome 123 (2024) the CSS property align-content:center now provides native vertical centering for regular block elements, eliminating the need for Flex or Grid tricks, but it works only under specific layout conditions and has several edge‑case pitfalls.
The jQuery 4.0.0 beta release introduces performance boosts, drops legacy IE support, removes dozens of deprecated APIs, updates event ordering, adds native FormData handling, eliminates automatic JSONP upgrades, and migrates the source to ES modules, with an upgrade guide and migration plugin available.
Microsoft has ended extended security updates for Windows 7, while Windows 8.1 also reaches end‑of‑life, and major browsers such as Chrome and Edge are withdrawing support, leaving many users to migrate as Windows 10 support will cease in January 2025.
Google Search has officially stopped supporting Internet Explorer 11, a move announced by engineer Malte Ubl that reflects cost‑benefit calculations and will lead to a degraded search experience for IE11 users, signaling the browser's impending obsolescence for developers and enterprises.
