TIL – if() and reading-flow

May 28, 2025

I learned about the if() function that landed in Chrome 137 yesterday. From what I understand, an article about this new feature is coming from the Chrome team soon. I am interested to find out more and determine how it might be helpful in my workflow.

Una also mentioned reading-flow and I did a bit of a dive into that after watching the video. I am very excited about these feature finally hitting browsers. We will now have a way to make more accessible interfaces using our modern layout tools where source order and layout order don’t always match.

• reading-flow examples (Chrome dev) – Great to see it in action.
• Use CSS reading-flow for logical sequential focus navigation (Di Zhang and Rachel Andrew, Chrome for Developers Blog)
• What We Know (So Far) About CSS Reading Order (Daniel Schwarz, CSS Tricks)