Cloudflare Outage, CSS Masonry Syntax, and Chrome Animation Optimizations

TLDR: A major Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025, caused by a database permissions change, took down significant portions of the web and reignited debates about centralization. Meanwhile, the CSS Working Group adopted display: grid-lanes for masonry layouts, and Chrome Canary shipped optimizations allowing width/height animations to run on the compositor thread under specific conditions.

Frontend Focus Issue 718: November 19, 2025