Wanna learn how to build a browser from scratch? Check out browser.engineering by Pavel Panchekha and Chris Harrelson 🤓🌐📘 In this (free) book, you build a "basic but complete web browser, from networking to JavaScript, in a couple thousand lines of Python"

“I think MDN core documentation content needs forking and an alternative platform needs to develop from that forked, attributed content that has a sustainable funding and leadership model. Mozilla ain’t providing that.”

We’re looking for sites whose UI/styling, when presenting a modal dialog or modal sidebar or other modal widget to the user, visually blurs out (not just grays out) the rest of the page significantly or completely.

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2024/06/… “Even Fascist-owned social media has a means to alt text to an <img>” 😂 “but on my phone [in the native sharing UI] the option to add alt text to an image is absent. … Don’t undermine my ability as a user of the web to make the content I post accessible”

🔴 Ladybird browser update (June 2024) youtu.be/cbw0KrMGHvc Some highlights: 🍴 Ladybird forks from SerenityOS 📚 We’re now using 3rd party libraries 🎨 Skia for graphics 🎥 FFmpeg for media 😎 Declarative shadow DOM 🗃️ HTTP cache Check the video for a rundown & demo! 🤓🐞

You know you're a real browser project when Igalia folks start contributing random fixes to it 🤓❤️

You can now (again) build+run, on macOS/Android/Windows/Linux — separate from SerenityOS — the new-engine-from-scratch Ladybird browser that Andreas Kling started 6 years ago(!?), with key contributions from Andrew Kaster + others —github.com/LadybirdBrowse…

It’s really great to see more amazing work from Daniel Lemire making its way into a browser engine — as his github.com/fastfloat/fast… already has in WebKit. The Chrome and Firefox 🔥 projects should take note.

I wrote a new blog post for the first time in 6 years: rniwa.com/2024-07-20/fif…

Kavon It's FOSS What's aggravating is I asked Firefox Support if there's a way to directly support Mozilla Firefox specifically. Not Mozilla and projects, just Firefox. There is currently not a way to do that and I find that utterly disappointing.

Kavon It's FOSS Firefox Support For others who want to have a direct donate feature go add your opinion on connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/abili…

Today I implemented the :host pseudo-class selector in Ladybird and it made a pretty big difference on Reddit 🤓

Progress on running the web-platform-tests suite on Ladybird! 🐞🚀 We're now on the WPT dashboard staging area! Coming soon to wpt-fyi proper 🤓 This is going to be amazing for the "graph-driven development" fans among us! 😄 staging.wpt.fyi/results/?produ…

Porffor porffor.dev from Oliver Medhurst is a from-scratch *experimental* AOT JS engine, written in JS. Compared to other engines, its WebAssembly output is much faster+smaller, binaries sizes over 1000x smaller, memory usage over 40x less.

Safari Technology Preview 200 is out, and has the base "Observable" class behind the "Observable API" feature flag! webkit.org/blog/15779/rel…

📝 I set off to find the best way to make video with transparency work on the web. Over 10 bug reports later, it turns out it's better to handle the transparency manually with WebGL. Here's how: jakearchibald.com/2024/video-wit…

We've been evaluating a number of C++ successor languages for Ladybird, and the one best suited to our needs appears to be Swift Language 🪶 Over the last few months, I've asked a bunch of folks to pick some little part of our project and try rewriting it in the different

🎉 New Changelog interview! 🗣 Why we need Ladybird 🌟 with Andreas Kling & defunkt 🎙 hosts Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo 🎧 changelog.fm/604

Hey, want to watch me try to implement a new CSS selector in WebKit? youtube.com/watch?v=vNuvEq…

Safari Technology Preview 202 is now available with updates to Accessibility, CSS, Editing, JavaScript, Media, Rendering, SVG, Web Animations, Web API, Web Assembly, and WebDriver. webkit.org/blog/15798/rel…