Tobias Fedder

Looking at the reading-flow property among the Interop proposals, I’m not sure what to think about it. Is it a new feature? Or is it a fix for flexbox and grid, to solve some of the a11y issues of their layout capabilities? Or is that too harsh? Is it about unlocking flexbox’s and grid’s potential?

Updated this post to reflect the completely predictable result that ~30% of the 100 top English-language content websites are now using Google's Prompt API for browser fingerprinting, Google Advertising profiling, or both. The purpose of a system is what it does. eupolicy.social/@thatprivacy...

Last day at the office, packing up my stuff. I will miss the whiteboard quote, as well as the a11y poster peeking over my shoulder in video calls. And the cafeteria. 😢 Starting next month: new org, new processes, new workplace, but same tasks, same employer, same team 😊 (mostly). It's complicated.

I know I should be angry about the "largest theft of labor in human history", other anti-social tech, blocking client-side rendering, and shit. But what about my fellow web devs getting excited to optimize their sites for the newest gadget from the "you have to install an app for that" corp?

If you want to claim technology is neutral and what matters is how we use it… this is it. This is the "how we use it" part. These are brand name products built by companies, so ~5 of the worst men on Sir Tim's world wide public domain web can sell our own Redit posts back to us for profit.

Dear border-image-*, Why? Have I wronged you? Why are you like that? Why are you doing this to me? Why‽ #CSS

It's also anti-privacy to bounce folks to native apps and app stores filled with invasive, proprietary, unauditable technology.

I had to ssh into my server this morning to get my NextcloudAIO instance up again. Many container images needed updating. Now, the interesting question is: Did I jinx it, or is five months too long a period for me to have been able to jinx it? bsky.app/profile/tfed...

Looks like I overestimated the appetite for hexagons on the web. Like, by a lot. bsky.app/profile/tfed...

I like hexagons and web design. Do you like hexagons? And, also web design? Can I interest you in calc-size() ? codepen.io/editor/tfedd...

I like hexagons and web design. Do you like hexagons? And, also web design? Can I interest you in calc-size() ? codepen.io/editor/tfedd...

Sooo, can issues be too small to qualify as an interop-proposal? For example, me wishing for just one additional web-platform-test to turn green in all three engines? wpt.fyi/results/css/...

Darth Android makes me feel like EOL of Win10, except, unlike on desktop, on mobile I don’t know where to go.

WebAuthn Level 3 is a recommendation as of this week. I'm looking forward to it, especially signalling credential changes to authenticators, and nuanced hints for UAs. www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/

Cannot stress enough how little a brand must think of you to interrupt browsing to push a native app in the Year of Our Lord 2026. Embarrassing.

It's really weird that the response to JPEG XL shipping is "yesss fuck WebP!" Like, we've had AVIF for years, and it outperforms JPEG XL in almost all web use-cases.

Element render delay – 16% of time to LCP 😎 …🤨 Time to first byte – 84% of time to LCP 😱 … …🤔 🤷

I think the new(-ish?) icon for private browsing in @firefox.com looks nice. Whoever did that: good job!

Sure sure, but counter point: an exact number of users (us) are users exactly like us. :) So keep that in mind too. And the users on your site might be different from the users on my site. There's no universal user, and they aren't entirely not me.

I get that Iterator.prototype.createWrapperThatIfExhaustedEarlyMayKillTheGeneratorButLeavesIteratorsFromIterablesLiveExhaustAfter() would have been too long. But why is it called Iterator.prototype.take() ? _take()_ ???

I just noticed that Firefox splits ligatures in cases of conditional hyphenation (hyphens:auto; , ­ ). My brain: look at me and my eye for detail! Checking Bugzilla: already reported 17 (SEVENTEEN) years ago. I noticed it TODAY. My eye for detail, lol.

I just want to remind everybody that "storing" personal data is one form of "processing" personal data under GDPR. see GDPR Art. 4 (2) Erasure is another one. Fun.

This is great and highlights one of the most common mistakes developers make since became easier to server render framework sites - rendering buttons etc before the JS has loaded to make them work.

Anyone using HTTP/2 server push with libcurl? If you use this feature in libcurl, please let us know. It is being deprecated all over, including in specs, browsers and servers and I believe the time has come for us to drop it from libcurl in the future as well. So I'm curious to know if anyone […]

Working with CSS Grid (including Subgrid) I sometimes wish I could toggle gap-collapse for empty rows or columns. Nothing made it in here, one gap is fine, thank you. I am sure there would be horrible consequences for layout and comprehension (see margin collapse).

Based on the first module of the course, I am confident that the full course will be worth the full price. But if you‘ll buy it anyway, why not get it for less now? bsky.app/profile/miri...

I'm thinking about how non-developers will feel about atproto. For example, will it take people by surprise that data entered into one app can show up somewhere else? More thoughts in this post.

Would someone be kind enough to tell me what the result of this code is in Safari? ```html <style> [hidden].unhide { display: revert; } </style> <h1 hidden class="unhide">Hidden?</h1> ``` Is the myth of "Separation of Concerns" in HTML, CSS, and JS, dead yet?

Turns out you can just save the glowing testimonials for after you buy the course. Truly a no-brainer.

Is the placement algorithm for grid lanes "wrong"? Is the auto-placement cursor helping or hurting the algorithm? drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-3/#... bsky.app/profile/matu...

Is the placement algorithm for grid lanes "wrong"? Is the auto-placement cursor helping or hurting the algorithm? drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-3/#... bsky.app/profile/matu...

Quick SVG survey 🗳️ What are your pain points with SVG? What features are missing? What bugs matter the most?

Pro tip: don't enable experimental features in the browser/profile you use for surfing. Use a dedicated browser/profile for that. It will save you from a lot of confusion.