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Manuel Rego
@rego.bsky.social
Web Engines Hacker (Chromium & WebKit reviewer, @servo.org TSC chair) - CSSWG member - Free Software/Open Source Developer - @igalia.com partner - he/him
The video of my @servo.org talk yesterday at @fosdem.org is already available online: video.fosdem.org/2026/h1309/L...
Slides at servo.org/slides/2026-...
Kudos to the organizers and video team 👏
video.fosdem.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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Oh... interesting! Just while I just posting this I received an email from the awesome #FOSDEM organizers with the public link to the video recording of the talk. That was impressively fast, thank you!

So, here you have the video recording as well: mirror.cyberbits.eu/fosdem/2026/...
mirror.cyberbits.eu
February 1, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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yesterday i gave my first talk at fosdem on mathml interoperability! i was quite nervous and there were internet issues, but it was a nice experience :3

you can watch it here: https://video.fosdem.org/2026/h1309/NJM3KB-mathml-core.av1.webm :blobhaj_reach:
February 1, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Slides of my @servo.org talk at @fosdem.org are a available at servo.org/slides/2026-...
The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem
servo.org
January 31, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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It's the first day of #FOSDEM2026 and you shouldn't miss our 4 talks! Our colleagues @base-art.net, Eri Pazos, @mariospr.bsky.social and @rego.bsky.social will cover #WebRTC, #WebKitGTK, #GStreamer, Interop, #MathML, Web Platform or @servo.org
January 31, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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My friend and @igalia.com colleague Alice Boxhall wrote a great piece "Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too" about some important work we've been helping to drive with some funding from NLNet ..

blogs.igalia.com/alice/refere...
Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too
How reference target allows us to improve accessibility when using shadow DOM
blogs.igalia.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
On my way to @fosdem.org where tomorrow I’ll be talking about @servo.org in the "Browser and web platform" devroom. See you there!
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
January 30, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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We’ll be out in force at @fosdem.org '26 at the end of this week, with eight talks on a wide variety of topics—the latest on @servo.org, GStreamer work, graphics stacks, MathML interop, WebAssembly runtimes, handing out Servo stickers, and more! www.igalia.com/2026/01/26/I...
Igalia at FOSDEM ’26 | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...
www.igalia.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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📣 Servo at FOSDEM 2026

This weekend at FOSDEM 2026, @rego.bsky.social Chair of the Servo TSC, will present:

“The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem.”

📅 Saturday, Jan 31
🕑️ 14:00–14:30 CET
📍 Browser and Web Platform Devroom
🎥 Live stream

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
FOSDEM 2026 - The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem
fosdem.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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Really wishing that somebody would hire my company (@igalia.com) to standardize/implement support for import maps in web workers.

I already have a draft spec PR ready and there is interest from the community, which company wants to be the hero funding pushing it forward? :)
Support import maps in workers by nicolo-ribaudo · Pull Request #10858 · whatwg/html
This patch started as a conversation with @guybedford. I tried writing some spec for one of the potential approaches discussed in WICG/import-maps#2. This PR is not actually ready as I have not fin...
github.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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December in Servo…

🎤🧑‍🏫 FOSDEM talks next week!
🤹🪟 multiple windows
🪆🌐 HTTP proxy support
🔐🕵️ more SubtleCrypto algorithms
💽🗃️ new site data & network API

servo.org/blog/2026/01...
January 23, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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Highlights from last week:

- DevTools, Web Crypto API and WebDriver improvements
- Use shadow DOM in user agent widgets for form controls
- Ship navigator.sendBeacon()
- Implement Origin API
January 16, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Really happy to see the evolution of the @servo.org project in the last years since @igalia.com took over maintenance in 2023
blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-...
January 14, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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📄 Our Journey to support Extensions for embedders - by Miyoung Shin

blogs.igalia.com/mshin/2026/0...
Our Journey to support Extensions for embedders – Shin’s blog
blogs.igalia.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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We analyzed Igalia's contributions to some of our favorite open-source projects on the web and elsewhere and summarized them in this blog post! Check it out: www.igalia.com/2026/01/05/D...
Doing Our Share for the Web in 2025 | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...
www.igalia.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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An early look at the accessibility work going on in Servo. Part of Igalia's Sovereign Tech Fund project.

www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/I...
January 12, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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Thanks to Josh Matthews, we have now documented the experimental web platform features on Servo
book.servo.org/design-docum...
Remember you can enable them in Servo shell via the ☢️ toolbar button servo.org/download/
Experimental features - The Servo Book
book.servo.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Finally got a @servo based revival of browser.html ! Still a lot of bugs and missing features, but very exciting start :)
December 21, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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We have built a self-hosted runner system that does virtual machine orchestration under the hood, cutting our CI times by 50-90%, all for barely 400 EUR/month!

Delan Azabani explains it all in her talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W1m...

Transcript and slides: www.azabani.com/2025/12/18/s...
Web engine CI on a Shoestring Budget
YouTube video by Igalia
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Igalian @meyerweb.com has published a quick writeup of the new shadowRootReferenceTarget HTML attribute and ShadowRoot API method that are meant to help make Shadow DOMs more accessible. Find out more: meyerweb.com/eric/thought...
Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM
A new way to allow elements inside a Shadow DOM to be targeted for accessibility or other reasons.
meyerweb.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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new bloggery, an acceptance speech ~~ wingolog.org/archives/202...
in which our protagonist dreams of laurels — wingolog
wingolog: article: in which our protagonist dreams of laurels
wingolog.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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November in Servo…

🍔🖱️ context menus
🚀💇 parallel CSS parsing
🎨🤹 per-webview rendering contexts
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December 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Huge Servo milestone: thanks to a swift response to a bug I reported, the Servo browser (https://servo.org) can now play Deltarune Dot Com's 404 page correctly.
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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With Safari shipping command and commandfor, I figured I'd spend some time prototyping it within Servo.
December 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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And one more bronze sponsor today, this time Jenny & Phil Porada. Thank you very much! @pgporada.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM