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The web is getting simpler. That’s the worrying part.

Security surprises, oversized HTML, and fewer excuses for extra libraries

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December 14, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

Somewhere between “just ship it” and “rewrite everything,” the web is having a moment. Security advisories keep landing, markup keeps growing, and browsers are finally doing things we once needed JavaScript gymnastics for. Progress indeed, just not the tidy kind.

A mere hour after Justin Slack and Schalk Venter spent an hour reflecting on the unprecedented level of outages and security problems across the web during 2025, Next.js announced yet two more React Server Component exploits.

We will likely share less security-related news in 2026, not because the situation has improved, but because it will likely worsen, and we want to avoid turning into the “Web Security Feed.”

Matt Zeunert compiled a highly informative resource titled Exploring Large HTML Documents on the Web, in which he examines the various reasons HTML files can grow to massive sizes, along with the implications of serving huge HTML documents.

Patrick Brosset, from the Microsoft Edge team, recently published a phenomenal article outlining some surprising things you no longer need third-party libraries for.

It primarily focuses on the upcoming CSS Masonry functionality, but also includes great examples of tooltips, scroll-driven animations, accordions, and even client-side routing.

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