Luke

Well I'm moving (an hour or so late) so en-route to Dublin part 2.

Who decided a ferry to Ireland was a good idea... my ferry was cancelled, so running late we'll see if I make it in one piece. Got some spare trainers as my current pair got a very soggy on my travels through Anglesey woodlands yesterday (got red squirrels though, so what's a ~bit~ lot of rain?)

Apropos of nothing, if you're considering switching from a recently deprecated browser and want to try Firefox, I just landed `Copy Tab URL` in nightly - it's not bound by default but a quick visit to `about:keyboard` will let you set it, and also take a glance at the other neat shortcuts we have.

I just shipped CSS Custom Highlight Universal Selector! Coming in Chrome 158. With ::highlight(*), you can write a shared rule that applies to every custom highlight instead of repeating the same styles for each name. See the Blog post: blog.seokho.dev/development/...

Happy World Browser Day! I've long used "long live the web" as my motto/tagline, so today I published a blog post explaining what this phrase means to me: longlivetheweb.org/not-a-manife...

aamtest: Testing accessibility in WPT blogs.igalia.com/mrego/aamtes... This blog post covers the work @igalia.com has been doing to add a new type of tests in WPT, which allow testing the platform accessibility APIs directly. Thanks to NLnet Foundation for sponsoring this work.

Wrote a thing on why we should have interactive lists on the web: sarahmhigley.com/writing/inte... If anyone has their own interactive list use cases that aren't covered, send them to me! I'm putting together an ARIA spec PR this month.

Very interested to hear people's thoughts on this, I've got a chrome prototype but keep struggling to think of what the actual defaults should be. Come give your ideas! Yes the legend is fair game as well as the fieldset.

What do you want us to work on in 2027? Here's a web app where you can rank the Interop proposals you care about, giving us data we can use to prioritise feature development. interop-rank.fxdx.dev

Trying to set up a computer with a keyboard and Bluetooth mouse should not be as hard as it is. Make your damn OSs work without a mouse by default 😭

Dark mode. Do the websites & web apps made by your team support dark mode? If not, why not? What do you want to know most to help empower your team to support it?! What’s the blocker? What is confusing or hard about dark mode? #css #web #development #design

Igalia Improving The Firefox Experience For Valve's Steam Deck - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-Better-Firefox

Do you use the HTML `<meter>` element? If so when do you use it, and what kinda styling do you use? If you don't use it, are there use cases where you would but don't for some reason? If so what are those reasons.

Do you make websites? What do you wish <select> listbox did? Or didn’t do? This is the HTML. Currently, it automatically creates a listbox with 4 options showing. <select id="foobar" multiple> If you want 6 items showing, you write <select id="foobar" multiple item="6">. What should it be?

🆕 Customize MDN's browser compat tables! Press ⚙️ Settings on any compat table to choose which browsers and engines you see, and hide the ones you don't need. Your picks are saved in your browser. Try it 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Today Igalia turns 25. Ten engineers started it in A Coruña in 2001 with no investors and no managers. There are now close to 200 of us, and everything we build still goes upstream. igalia.com/2026/09/21/T...

don't be nice.

[This is not an endorsement of Jeremy or Apple's opinion] The TAG invited Jeremy to talk about web installs at our F2F last week, as a rep for devs. It's the 1st time (in my time) that we've invited a dev to get their direct input into standards work & the consensus was that we should do it more!

Importing and exporting passkeys and passwords is now available on Android. This resolves the security risks of legacy plaintext CSV exports and the inability to migrate passkeys across providers through secure, OS-level peer-to-peer data transfer.

This evening I learned (remembered) that Chromium and WebKit don't have a pseudo for the fill/progress part of a range input. Presumably they just decided to do that at paint time because reasons?

I was ahead of the time. blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2023/0...

Nice lunch time surprise, a juvenile white-winged black tern showed up in Cardiff Bay. My 18th lifer of 2026! #BirdingWales

The Interop 2027 call for proposals is now open! Learn more about the process at github.com/web-platform..., or start a proposal via github.com/web-platform... today. You can also read about it in our news post at www.igalia.com/news/interop....

Why is it not the law that if I click a link in your app it just opens in my damn browser. Never has an in-app browser done anything useful.

Show me who is making good or popular use of closed shadow roots, please? Like, not a thing on your website or a thing you've personally used once or twice, but something in broad use

We also seem to be the first framework to ship with moveBefore support github.com/preactjs/pre... which honestly has been great for preserving iframe state during moves, focus retention, ...

Would you, today, choose to use <input type=image> for some reason? If so, why?

Some (juvenile?) red squirrels I encountered on a recent trip to Brownsea island. As often is the case we found them about 10 minutes before the last boat of the day.

Porffor alpha is out! It represents a new phase of the project where real-world dependencies are beginning to work and Node compatibility is the main bottleneck. To be clear, it still likely won't work with your app yet, but it is much closer than before. Recap here: honk.foo/porffor-alpha/

5 minutes to explain why the web needs our proposal to enhance spell checking on the web... youtu.be/TfFIC4Ookxo?...

Why do companies (Google) insist on randomly discontinuing functionality from their software?? I've been using Google drive on my Mac to sync photos from an SD card to Google photos for years now. But nope not anymore now I have to use their sites much jankier capability instead.

BIG NEWS: Bocoup is now Igalia! The two worker co-ops have agreed to join forces, with several members of Bocoup coming aboard at Igalia, along with the brand assets and web site. More details in our official announcement: www.igalia.com/2026/Joining...

Osprey seen flying over near Wareham (by the river piddle). Can't read a ring or see if one exists, but the left wing's primaries look quite distinctive.

Valerie Young talks about "Accessible Testing in WPT: From Dream to Reality" at the Web Engines Hackfest 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=coA0...

never forgive never forget

I made an accessibility error when coding up some tooltips. Here's where I went wrong, and how you can avoid making the same mistake: jakearchibald.com/2026/my-tool...