One problem with the web platform I’m thinking about how to solve: keyboard shortcuts. I’ve written what I see as the requirements here: github.com/openui/open-... I want to hear from devs who’ve worked on big apps/sites with shortcuts and see what I’m missing, and how they’ve solved this.

Gecko: Intent to prototype and ship: Navigation API

Servo Report for Week 44 2025 Highlights from last week: - Implemented `ToggleEvent` and use for `<details>` element - Servo now handles touch events on Android, unifying touch handling across platforms - Implemented the Compression API - Added Ed25519 support to SubtleCrypto

I’m really looking forward to #SotB26 (Feb 28, 2026, London). I'll be speaking, but mostly I'm excited to join this amazing group of people again after having attended the 2025 edition. It's really inspiring to be around such a passionate crowd genuinely excited about the web. See you there?

Registration form for the Web Engines Hackfest 2026 is now open: forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7s... A couple of reminders, it'll happen in June 15 to 17 in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) and you only need to register if you're planning to attend onsite. More info about the event at webengineshackfest.org

Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?

Command invokers soon to be baseline newly available! Also field-sizing is finally here. Some other nice changes too!

I want this, if anyone at GitHub follows me and isn't being forced to churn out bad react code, could you make it happen? Having to click on the forks dropdown and then click a link is just enough friction to be annoying. Feel free to write it in bad react if it gets management sign off.

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: Accessibility and the Free Labor Funnel @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with their colleagues Alice Boxhall and Valerie Young about the challenges facing standards and accessibility. www.igalia.com/chats/a11y-t...

Had a nice day out at Slimbridge yesterday. Picked up the Temminck's stint bringing me to 196 UK species for the year. Also managed my first ever photo of a bittern! Some bonus snipe showing very well, and a perfectly timed white fronted goose, first of the winter! #ukbirding

Managed to get a PR landed to the DOM Spec that's been years in the making. The integration of Trusted Types with attributes, is now fully defined. Seemed simple when I picked up that work but there's a lot of nuance to make sure browsers don't get into funky states.

Last week I posted about a secret config in Firefox that made view transitions easier to debug. Folks said we should make it less secret. So we did.

Please please please if anybody wants to hire Igalia to work on this I'd be very happy to champion it internally, we even have folks that recently worked with JSC's module system

If you're trying to play around with the sanitizer API and thinking why are none of my elements being accepted, the default sanitizer config (e.g. if you don't pass options to `setHTML()`) is really restrictive. Try `setHTML("foo", {sanitizer: {}})` and then it's just removing XSS.

> As the CMA has already acknowledged, Google does not use "its position as an operating system or mobile browser engine to favour Chrome". WebAPKs would like a word... blog.google/around-the-g...

I think my first blog post might be "form controls are cursed" and it's just all the random jank I've found over the last little while related to controls as they exist in current browsers. Today's fun one, real buttons and input buttons have different text selection behaviour in 2/3 engines.

With Firefox enabling sanitizer API in nightly, I'm pretty excited to see if frameworks will pick this feature up sooner rather than later and offer an alternative to "dangerouslySetInnerHtml". I can see a setHTML and setHTMLUnsafe directive pair letting users pass in options to those functions.

Not necessarily a fan of this specific use case, but the more JS we can rip out the better!

Are there any editors out there that include chrome Dev tools esque UI for CSS editing. I know some have colour picking UI, but what about UI for setting up flex containers, or UI for generating a radial gradient?

Sneak peak at some base appearance prototyping in Chromium. (Styles are far from finalised but you get the rough idea)

Sneak peak at some base appearance prototyping in Chromium. (Styles are far from finalised but you get the rough idea)

Sanitizer API is now enabled by default in Firefox Nightly. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi... developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... Still behind a flag in Chrome Canary...

This year, Igalia did some work to improve mobile-device emulation in @polypane.app by adding features to Chromium that could eventually improve Chrome itself, as well as API work to improve Electron. Learn more about the details here: www.igalia.com/2025/10/21/H...

For the Interop scores to be fair, doesn't it make more sense for all the browsers to run on a single OS? Or for it to be more useful shouldn't they all run on each platform they're available on? Chrome and Firefox run in Linux, Edge on Windows and Safari on macOS...

This November at the Annual W3C Plenary (TPAC) I'll be discussing "Custom Attributes" github.com/w3c/tpac2025.... I'd like to bring the same lifecycle hooks & subclassing of Custom Elements to attributes. I'd _love_ to hear if developers think this is a good or bad idea, and what they'd like to see.

We're currently working on devtools for view transitions in Firefox, but in the meantime, here's a little-known option that helps…

The Servo project is starting to publish releases, version 0.0.1 is out today! 🚀 You can learn more about the goals and plans behind these releases in our blog: servo.org/blog/2025/10...

If I started blogging, would people be interested? What would you like to read about? Long form or short?

🎉 Preact 11 beta is here! After years of thoughtful development, we're delivering major improvements with minimal breaking changes. Better hydration, forward refs by default, and performance upgrades - all while maintaining the stability you love about Preact X.

@preact/signals currently* has an issue with how it handles changing signal references within useComputed's captured scope and we were hoping to get a bit of feedback from the community, if anyone wants to offer their opinions and feelings on the matter.

Who do you want to hear from, or what topics would you like to hear about on Igalia chats?

Gecko: Intent to prototype: Sanitizer API

📝 New Post: The Killer Feature of #webcomponents A quick dive into the Custom Elements Manifest and why this community standard is a 10x effort multiplier. daverupert.com/2025/10/cust...

🚀 There should be a native way to have more than one thumb on a range slider. For this, I need your help. I created a starting point and would love you all to talk about it and give some feedback. It still has a lot of room to grow. Let's slide! 🛝 👍 utilitybend.com/blog/a-nativ...

Accessibility question For ::backdrop's (dialog overlays) that have a semi-transparent bg to obscure the page behind them: Should we make the backdrop more obscured for `prefers-reduced-transparency`? Like if the backdrop is black/40% should we make it black/80%? 100%? Should we blur the bg?

I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true. ➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari ➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive ➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't ➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF ⬇️ and more jakearchibald.com/2025/present...

Bit of a random question before I start googling. Does anyone know of any institutions that fund research grants for technology? Work that is along the lines of "I want to research what effect X thing would have on the overall web if it was implemented in the web platform."

Pretty huge, Lit is no longer tied to Google #freelit lit.dev/blog/2025-10...

Still very experimental and using Kotlin dev build (with particular feature flag enabled) but very cool to see initial implementation of Kotlin suspend function support in Swift Export! Code here included now in github.com/joreilly/chi... #KMP sample.

Katie's talk on Web Midi was my favourite of state of the browser 2024! Go give this a watch if doing fun stuff with web tech is your sort of thing.

I discovered a useful feature in Safari DevTools today. We can show the flex items order like (item #1, item #2, etc) and their corresponding order value (if it's changed). It's called "Order Numbers". @webkitgtk.org

Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine. www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/I...

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most. So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion. interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

The day has come: native form controls that actually style properly! @Apple's Tim Nguyen previews the CSS-only future we've been waiting for #DevSummit25 Tim Nguyen at Dev Summit 25 bit.ly/3Iooh20

Emphasis on the "prototype" here, this is still a long ways off. Got to start somewhere though!

Fun fact: links aren't the only element browsers use a pointer cursor for! `<input type="image">` also gets one. I have absolutely no clue why though...

It's got a massive fanbase so if any follow-me please reply to Jake and give your perspectives. I admit I find myself really confused why it seems to have such an almost cult following among some people, so I'm interested to see if there's some gotcha I've missed.

From the community: Servo GTK blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2025/1...

I often see people referring to <marquee> as non-standard and I wonder where that comes from? It's in the html spec. html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/re...