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Look into the future of the web platform

Jonathan Stephens March 20, 2026
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> The data behind Baseline is what tells you if something is Newly or Widely available. It also gives you a new power, you can now look into the future of the web platform. If you are planning a project today, what’s the launch date? For a brand new site or application, that might be six months to a year from now. Rather than tying yourself to what’s Widely available today, you can probably include anything that will be Widely available on that date. The same is true of picking a different Baseline target based on a Baseline year. If Baseline 2023 makes sense today, and the new site will launch in nine months to a year, perhaps settle for Baseline 2024. Moving a year forward would give you features like Declarative Shadow DOM, @starting-style, and AVIF.

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