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alwillisyesterday at 8:57 PM0 repliesview on HN

> I know for sure that Apple, who has an important seat on the standard committee, holded back innovation for so long, it's not a matter of finding or not finding solutions. They're failing us for different interests

Apple isn't the problem.

Apple was the first to ship :has(), which developers wanted for 20 years but was thought to be essentially impossible to implement [1].

Apple pushed to get consensus on how to implement masonry layouts in CSS [2].

And they were first to ship the new specification in a browser you can use right now [3].

This dashboard shows Apple slightly ahead in terms of new CSS features being implemented and interoperable with Firefox and Chrome [4].

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/13096/css-has-pseudo-class/

[2]: https://webkit.org/blog/16026/css-masonry-syntax/

[3]: https://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/

[4]: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2025?stable