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Is this the start of a CSS revolution?

Safari ships random(), Chrome unlocks if() logic, and jQuery resurfaces. Front-end is getting interesting again.

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FEDSA team
September 01, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

Hello again!

This month, jQuery walked into the room like it never left, CSS started gambling with random(), and Chrome taught style rules how to think. Somewhere, a front-end dev just quietly closed their laptop and whispered, “I need a moment.”

Believe it or not, the jQuery Project has just shipped a release candidate for the library’s major Version 4! This once love‑to‑hate JavaScript staple was an absolute game-changer back in the day. Here’s to you, old friend - wishing you all the best! 💙

In a pleasant surprise, the super‑fresh CSS random() function just dropped into the latest Safari Technology Preview. Jen Simmons and her team wrote an article about the many uses of randomness in CSS.

Hopefully, we’ll see the same functionality ship in competing browsers soon as well.

Una Kravets and the Chrome team wrote an article detailing the state of the if() CSS function and how it can be used in the latest Chrome and Chromium browsers. 

Not only are existing @media and @supports queries getting beefed up, but the new @style query is also opening up an entirely new way of inferring the style of HTML elements.

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