25 recent posts tagged #browsers, newest first.
Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from September 21 to September 28. Following the stable releases last week, we have the first security advisory covering fixes included in them; the flurry of fixes and polish for the Skia…
DHH took the Rails World stage to announce that he and Basecamp are no longer writing code by hand, wouldn't necessarily recommend Rails for a new app, and are going all in on native. That kicks off this week's big question: in an era of…
On September 6, 2026, the Web & AI International Standards Seminar on Generative UI and WebSkill, hosted by the W3C Representative Office in Shenzhen and held as part of the 2026 China Computer Federation (CCF) Standards Technical…
Ideals I thought it would be interesting to talk a little bit about the standards process given a few events that lined up last week in my mind... Last week my colleague Rakhi wrote a great piece about how standardization at the edges…
Let me show you what I saw that started my brain turning: This is from the website of the podcast The Midnight Rebellion on WBUR. It’s a cute little crab that walks around on the top of an element! I love it! It reminded me of a very cool…
GstPipelineStudio 0.6.0 Let the Pipeline Build Itself GstPipelineStudio 0.6.0 is out! After 0.5.1 taught GPS to open dot files, this release teaches it to suggest: the next element for any free source pad, or even a complete pipeline from a…
Here are some of the Interop 2027 proposals which I think are of particular importance to the web developer community right now. Take a look and if you see proposals you like, use the vote links to show your support by adding a 👍 reaction…
And here we are three years after I wrote about the Google Pixel Fold being announced, followed now with the announcement of the iPhone Duo...(I have questions about the naming by the way). Four years ago I was talking about web primitives…
I stumbled across this great project by Barry Prendergast. It's a web-based radio player with a lush UI. On mobile I spotted that as I was rapidly flicking through the stations to find one that was on air, the browser was zooming in and…
WebKit Features for Safari 27.0 — An epic set of release notes covers Safari 27's enhancements, including its new MCP server (let agents debug your work), scroll anchoring, the customizable <select> element, a controls attribute for images…
Chrome 154 adds support for responsively-sized iframes, letting an <iframe> size itself based on the intrinsic size of its embedded document. This is perfect for seamlessly embedding third-party comment widgets, varying-height social media…
The mission of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group is to improve digital sustainability so that the Web works better for all people and the planet. We are developing Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) to provide actionable…
You've probably already seen this common pattern in action: blurry versions of the images of a site appear immediately and, moments later, their full versions replace them. This pattern has become so common that many image CDNs, frameworks…
We’re only one week away from XDC 2026, which will take place in Toronto from the 28th to the 30th of September. I’ll be there one more year together with a sizeable group of Igalia colleagues presenting on a number of different topics…
Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from September 14 to September 21. Following up to last week, we have a handful of exciting fixes to WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit covering Sysprof, rendering of CSS "filter" and "backdrop-filter"…
The IT/Systems Operations team has the dual function of developing and supporting the technical infrastructure required to enable and operate the work of our consortium, and the tools and environments that enable participation from around…
In this instalment of the “Why don’t we do a demo?” series I’ll continue through the software development part of the demo and I’ll end up with an MVP that will be later shaped into a finished product. Check out the previous parts ( The…
WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK 2.54 have been released with a bunch of improvements and new APIs as usual, but there’s one point that kept the Igalia WebKit graphics team busy for the whole cycle: the new Skia -based compositor. The replacement…
Checkout my team's latest web platform updates in Edge and Chromium. OpaqueRange API, referenceTarget, aria-actions, window-drag, WebMCP, Profiler markers, and more!
After two posts on the layer-based SVG engine, this one moves to a very different corner of WebKit: the compositor that the WPE and GTK ports use to compose the final picture on the screen. It is something I have been working on together…