And another project using Servo underneath, this time a native Node.js binding that uses Servo to paint pixels while Node handles the OS integration github.com/1Jamie/proje...

to make a slightly grander statement, two things people should do more often: - read and write your own dependencies - vendor code rather than installing it from npm

You can do cool things with Servo today! See next one of the last examples, a web browser by @me.webbeef.org built with web technologies using Servo as rendering engine tangled.org/me.webbeef.o...

This was actually some of my first contributions to the area of web browsers, just finding and fixing errors in the support data. Normally just ones I stumbled across as a web developer too, rather than anything deliberate.

The browser-compat-data project (used by MDN, caniuse, and tools) now has: 20,000 commits 1,123 contributors 465 releases 19,148 data entries That's what comprehensive web compat data looks like. And it takes well funded teams at @openwebdocs.org and @mozilla.org plus amazing contributors.

Highlights from last week: - Use Webdriver for all WPT runs - Improve look & feel of various form controls - Support :open and ::details-content pseudos - Support JSON modules - Insert a cache for animation with smarter updates

Blink: Intent to Prototype: Lazy loading for video and audio elements

Gecko: Intent to Ship: font-family: math

This comment from Espruino on Web Bluetooth is 😘 Web Bluetooth has been avail. on billions of devices, for several years, and I can't seem to find any instances of abuse. In the mean time I've lost count of the times hardware I've purchased has required me to install a dubious app to make it work.

Wild how far you can push "customizable select" with just #CSS nerdy.dev/nice-select

The EC is putting together an initiative to develop their strategy for open digital ecosystems. Given its potential to push forward the development and funding of open-source software in Europe and beyond, Igalia submitted a response with some suggestions. Read more: www.igalia.com/2026/02/03/I...

Wrote a blog post about the work I've been doing at @igalia.com to implement the Temporal proposal in JavaScriptCore: blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...

Demonstrating Implicit anchor association on @codepen.io The browser automatically creates an anchor relationship between elements based on their semantic connection. Without you explicitly defining an anchor-name position-anchor pair. Best hidden feature of CSS Anchor. codepen.io/g12n/details...

yesterday i gave my first talk at fosdem on mathml interoperability! i was quite nervous and there were internet issues, but it was a nice experience :3 you can watch it here: https://video.fosdem.org/2026/h1309/NJM3KB-mathml-core.av1.webm :blobhaj_reach:

I really don't get how bluesky still doesn't have media in DMs. Like yes I know it's open source and a small team etc but like when does that excuse run out? If they've got time to add some random live streaming related feature, they've surely got time to add GIFs and img upload to DMs...

My friend and @igalia.com colleague Alice Boxhall wrote a great piece "Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too" about some important work we've been helping to drive with some funding from NLNet .. blogs.igalia.com/alice/refere...

Til SVG has a pointer-events attribute (yes with a hyphen!). SVG is always a fun way to find esoteric parts of the platform. Honourary shout out to beginEvent one of 3 events in the entire platform (may be more I'm unaware of) that aren't all lowercase. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

We need to rewild the Web. Doing my part with a @servo.org based user agent in tangled.org/me.webbeef.o...

On my way to @fosdem.org where tomorrow I’ll be talking about @servo.org in the "Browser and web platform" devroom. See you there! fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Droppin' this here for anyone else who has absolutely 0 interest in GitHub's new "Agents" tab added to the top of every repo: github.com/orgs/communi...

Blink: Intent to Experiment: Focusgroup

Just out of curiosity - if there is a deprecation in HTML and you learn that Google will "go first" in tests and staged rollouts looking for feedback... Would you know _where_ to give feedback?

I'm officially a curmudgeon. Here's a rant about the Shadcn component library and how over-complicated its radio buttons are: paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shad... (Inspired by this week's work frustrations lol) #WebDev #CSS #HTML #JavaScript

Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary. @joshtumath.uk says desktop has a base text size option, but mobile ignores OS text size. Opt in with <meta name="text-scale"> if your site is ready to let text follow the mobile users setting. Now in Canary behind a flag. www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0...

Is anybody still using xml/HTML polyglots for anything moder (Syntax that is valid in both html and xml) Wondering whether those are something that needs to be considered for future HTML enhancement or a thing of the past...

One more custom <select> demo, with a bunch of CSS transforms and animations. I can't get enough of this. So cool.

Excitingly, Chrome Canary recently added support for <meta name="text-scaling"> behind a flag. What is it? It's something that we're all going to start using on our websites to improve accessibility. Here's a blog post with more info. www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0...

On Apple M3, a Linux KDE plasma desktop under Fedora Asahi Remix is now WORKING! Super excited to share this update and happy to answer any questions! Co-credits to noopwafel and Shiz. :)

Am I being dumb or does iOS Safari (26.2) really render an emoji for the details element's closed marker?

December in Servo… 🎤🧑‍🏫 FOSDEM talks next week! 🤹🪟 multiple windows 🪆🌐 HTTP proxy support 🔐🕵️ more SubtleCrypto algorithms 💽🗃️ new site data & network API servo.org/blog/2026/01...

Really wishing that somebody would hire my company (@igalia.com) to standardize/implement support for import maps in web workers. I already have a draft spec PR ready and there is interest from the community, which company wants to be the hero funding pushing it forward? :)

Just as an fyi when writing customisable select CSS try to be careful with your ::checkmark pseudo styles so they don't accidentally match checkbox elements in future.

The CSS highlight API feels of little use to me vs it's complexity, so I'm probably unaware of some important use-cases. If it's a feature that's important to you, tell us why, here: github.com/web-platform...

Another day, another WebKit pseudo element discovered. `::-webkit-search-results-decoration` (there's 3 of this sort) and the results attribute for search inputs. Safari only at this point.

Very jealous of all the aurora photos. It's cloudy as fuck in Cardiff and even if it wasn't the light pollution is really bad here.

Also adds support for Trusted Types (soon to be supported in all browsers)!

Got excited but the picker itself doesn't actually allow alpha selection yet...

Prototyping base appearance checkbox and radio buttons in chromium. Far from the final styles, but you gotta start somewhere!

CSS anchor positioning is newly baseline! This opens the door for lots of new creative CSS. It's a huge feature, but here are the basics.

Firefox 147 just landed & it's pretty huge in terms of web features: 🎉 CSS anchor positioning 🎉 The navigation API 🎉 View transition types 🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream 🎉 CSS module imports And more! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147

#CSS Anchor Positioning becoming Baseline in 3... 2... 1... www.firefox.com/en-US/firefo...

Microft surpassed Igalia as the #2 non-Google committer, but this is still a pretty amazing chart of cumulative commits until the end of 2025 - #1 is still Igalia! www.igalia.com/2026/01/05/D...

An early look at the accessibility work going on in Servo. Part of Igalia's Sovereign Tech Fund project. www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/I...

If you're not sure, let me make your mind up. Get a ticket, it's a great event with great people! A nice chance to socialise afterwards too.

I've seen a number of people request a way to imperatively link a form control and a label via a property such as .forElement on the label. Can you send me your concrete use cases if you're one of these people?

Surprised I can still learn new web things every day.. TIL from @lukewarlow.dev codepen.io/briankardell...

If your PMs say you can't use it because they can't see it on their iPhone. Tell them to piss off and ship it anyway 😉

Gecko: Intent to Prototype: "Customizable Select"

Tickets for #SotB26 are on sale - Get yours now! When? Saturday 28 February 2026, 09:30 - 17:00 GMT. Where? The Barbican Centre, London. Ticket types: In-person, Online, Diversity In-person and Online. *Diversity ticket applications end Thursday 26 February 2026. 2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/

TIL Firefox DevTools console has a $$$('selector') command that returns an array of matching elements, including those in shadow roots.