A New Browser Vision?
In which I share some thoughts about the state of things, and how maybe we could hope to change them.
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Fine. What Is the Web?
In which I am drawn into an unexpected sort of conversation...
Get Clamped: Unwinding Some Difficult CSS History
Sometimes features take a long and winding road on the way to a good solution. We could use your help testing improvements for something that's been somehow developing for about a quarter of a century...
Browsers and Language Features
Web browsers do an astounding amount of stuff with language - and we're always trying to do more. Like most things that we get "for free" and don't give a lot of attention to, there is a lot more to it than you might realize.
Priority of Constituencies
I've been thinking a lot recently about the W3C's Priority of Constituencies...
What if we just
What if a better answer to a question I've been struggling with for more than a decade is just... Way simpler? Sharing a potentially half-baked idea for discussion.
Maintaining the Bridges
Thoughts and analogies about infrastructure...
The Secret Life of Custom Elements
Twenty years ago last month, Google published an analysis of "slightly over a billion documents," a snapshot of the web that helped shape the early direction of HTML5. It followed a lineage of smaller, more personal studies — individuals poking at the web to answer some narrow question, often with datasets that would easily fit on a thumb drive today. For about half those two decades, I’ve been…
Standards Queues
The hardest part of web standards isn’t even the technology — it’s the queues. And that’s the real problem I keep coming back to.
The Juice
What's worth the squeeze?