New on the web platform in February, 2023

Any between-sites caching is done on the web

Chrome continues to cut down on User-Agent entropy

Usage of ShadowDOM for SSRed sites continous to become more viable

The behavior for client Authorization headers is changing with redirects

Prefetch starts respecting cache-control

Filling in the holes in the preload/as implementation

Web-native transitions are happening

Not news, but interesting

New attempt at custom dictionaries for better compression of web assets

If you run something SPA-ish and care about Core Web Vitals this is a must-read

Hixie is back