Brian Kardell
@bkardell.com
Brian, you know, from the Internet. Dev Advocate at Igalia | Co-author Extensible Web Manifesto | Standards Dude (Igalia AC/OpenJS) https://bkardell.com/links | he/him
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October in Servo…
🌳🍃 XPath enabled by default
🗜️📦 Compression Streams too
🦾🍎 native macOS arm64 releases
🤖☢️ Android experimental mode
🪆🤝 new input and zoom API
servo.org/blog/2025/11...
🌳🍃 XPath enabled by default
🗜️📦 Compression Streams too
🦾🍎 native macOS arm64 releases
🤖☢️ Android experimental mode
🪆🤝 new input and zoom API
servo.org/blog/2025/11...
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
October in Servo…
🌳🍃 XPath enabled by default
🗜️📦 Compression Streams too
🦾🍎 native macOS arm64 releases
🤖☢️ Android experimental mode
🪆🤝 new input and zoom API
servo.org/blog/2025/11...
🌳🍃 XPath enabled by default
🗜️📦 Compression Streams too
🦾🍎 native macOS arm64 releases
🤖☢️ Android experimental mode
🪆🤝 new input and zoom API
servo.org/blog/2025/11...
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Trump has destroyed all credibility in government departments. The latest one: the Justice Department classifying fentanyl as a chemical weapon to justify murdering civilians in small boats.
Words mean nothing any more. Neither does authority. We do what we want. Take or leave our excuse.
Words mean nothing any more. Neither does authority. We do what we want. Take or leave our excuse.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Trump has destroyed all credibility in government departments. The latest one: the Justice Department classifying fentanyl as a chemical weapon to justify murdering civilians in small boats.
Words mean nothing any more. Neither does authority. We do what we want. Take or leave our excuse.
Words mean nothing any more. Neither does authority. We do what we want. Take or leave our excuse.
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For folks who remember the concept of "selling out", I wrote this a few years ago so you can explain it to younger people who are not familiar with what the idea meant within culture. www.anildash.com/2023/04/18/w... It's hard to explain why someone would not license their song for a commercial.
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
For folks who remember the concept of "selling out", I wrote this a few years ago so you can explain it to younger people who are not familiar with what the idea meant within culture. www.anildash.com/2023/04/18/w... It's hard to explain why someone would not license their song for a commercial.
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Some nice coverage from @chriscoyier.net of a recent CSS blog post of mine. Thanks Chris! frontendmasters.com/blog/for-you...
For Your Convenience, This CSS Will Self-Destruct
In A Progressive Enhancement Challenge, I laid out a situation where the hardest thing to do is show a button you never want to show at all if the JavaScript loads and executes properly. I wrote of th...
frontendmasters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Some nice coverage from @chriscoyier.net of a recent CSS blog post of mine. Thanks Chris! frontendmasters.com/blog/for-you...
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After two years, it’s clear that awareness about Baseline is grown a lot. As one of the co-chair of the group that makes Baseline, Patrick wanted to take a pause and reflect on how Baseline is starting to show up in developer’s lives, but also how it can be perfected.
piccalil.li/blog/perfect...
piccalil.li/blog/perfect...
Perfecting Baseline
After two years, it’s clear that awareness about Baseline is grown a lot. As one of the co-chair of the group that makes Baseline, Patrick wanted to take a pause and reflect on how Baseline is starting...
piccalil.li
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
After two years, it’s clear that awareness about Baseline is grown a lot. As one of the co-chair of the group that makes Baseline, Patrick wanted to take a pause and reflect on how Baseline is starting to show up in developer’s lives, but also how it can be perfected.
piccalil.li/blog/perfect...
piccalil.li/blog/perfect...
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The phrasing of this resolution is entertaining: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...
[css-grid-3] Masonry Switch Syntax · Issue #12022 · w3c/csswg-drafts
In #11243 we ended up resolving to: Re-use the grid-* properties for templating and explicit placement. Adopt the item-flow proposal (in principle) for flow control. See #11480 With that context, I...
github.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The phrasing of this resolution is entertaining: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...
TIL there are sites that include
<meta name="rating" content="adult"> and this prevents some searches in "safe mode" (at least in Google) from displaying those in results?
<meta name="rating" content="adult"> and this prevents some searches in "safe mode" (at least in Google) from displaying those in results?
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 AM
TIL there are sites that include
<meta name="rating" content="adult"> and this prevents some searches in "safe mode" (at least in Google) from displaying those in results?
<meta name="rating" content="adult"> and this prevents some searches in "safe mode" (at least in Google) from displaying those in results?
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“GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.”
Music to my ears!
primer.style/accessibilit...
Music to my ears!
primer.style/accessibilit...
Toasts
GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
primer.style
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.”
Music to my ears!
primer.style/accessibilit...
Music to my ears!
primer.style/accessibilit...
Jaimie Teh from Mozilla coined "Accessibiltree" in a TPAC meeting today (or at least I heard it there first) and I love it
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Jaimie Teh from Mozilla coined "Accessibiltree" in a TPAC meeting today (or at least I heard it there first) and I love it
Its kind of amazing how much happens during W3C TPAC week breakout sessions
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Its kind of amazing how much happens during W3C TPAC week breakout sessions
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The video of my @servo.org talk at GOSIM Hangzhou is now available www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU3n...
If you prefer a text version you can check my last blog post blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-...
If you prefer a text version you can check my last blog post blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-...
【GOSIM HANGZHOU 2025】Manuel Rego：Servo: A new web engine written in Rust
YouTube video by GOSIM Foundation
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The video of my @servo.org talk at GOSIM Hangzhou is now available www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU3n...
If you prefer a text version you can check my last blog post blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-...
If you prefer a text version you can check my last blog post blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-...
The trouble with TPAC is that I have to choose between places I want to be. There is just so much important and interesting stuff.
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The trouble with TPAC is that I have to choose between places I want to be. There is just so much important and interesting stuff.
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KLM generates invoices that have "undefined" as part of their address 🙃
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
KLM generates invoices that have "undefined" as part of their address 🙃
Hello Tokyo 👋 Bye Tokyo. (Short stopover)
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Hello Tokyo 👋 Bye Tokyo. (Short stopover)
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Registration form for the Web Engines Hackfest 2026 is now open: forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7s...
A couple of reminders, it'll happen in June 15 to 17 in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) and you only need to register if you're planning to attend onsite.
More info about the event at webengineshackfest.org
A couple of reminders, it'll happen in June 15 to 17 in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) and you only need to register if you're planning to attend onsite.
More info about the event at webengineshackfest.org
Web Engines Hackfest 2026 - Data
Please complete this short form to confirm your onsite participation in the Web Engines Hackfest 2026 (15-17 June in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain). Remember that you don't need to fill out this form to pa...
forms.gle
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Registration form for the Web Engines Hackfest 2026 is now open: forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7s...
A couple of reminders, it'll happen in June 15 to 17 in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) and you only need to register if you're planning to attend onsite.
More info about the event at webengineshackfest.org
A couple of reminders, it'll happen in June 15 to 17 in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) and you only need to register if you're planning to attend onsite.
More info about the event at webengineshackfest.org
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[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives
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a man was just found not guilty by jury lollification
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
a man was just found not guilty by jury lollification
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great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
"I like this idea... because I think it is mine" - @mfreed7.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"I like this idea... because I think it is mine" - @mfreed7.bsky.social
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WPE Android 🤖 State of the Bot
This year at the WebKit Contributors Meeting, Adrián Pérez presented an update on what Igalia's WebKit team has been doing to improve WPE WebKit on Android, what is cooking, and our plans...
youtu.be/arH93B82SJM
This year at the WebKit Contributors Meeting, Adrián Pérez presented an update on what Igalia's WebKit team has been doing to improve WPE WebKit on Android, what is cooking, and our plans...
youtu.be/arH93B82SJM
WKCM 2025: WPE Android 🤖 State of the Bot
YouTube video by Igalia
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
WPE Android 🤖 State of the Bot
This year at the WebKit Contributors Meeting, Adrián Pérez presented an update on what Igalia's WebKit team has been doing to improve WPE WebKit on Android, what is cooking, and our plans...
youtu.be/arH93B82SJM
This year at the WebKit Contributors Meeting, Adrián Pérez presented an update on what Igalia's WebKit team has been doing to improve WPE WebKit on Android, what is cooking, and our plans...
youtu.be/arH93B82SJM
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Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?
TPAC 2025 - Hybrid meeting
Our major event of the year gathers our community for thought-provoking discussions and coordinated work.
www.w3.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
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🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: Accessibility and the Free Labor Funnel
@bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with their colleagues Alice Boxhall and Valerie Young about the challenges facing standards and accessibility.
www.igalia.com/chats/a11y-t...
@bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with their colleagues Alice Boxhall and Valerie Young about the challenges facing standards and accessibility.
www.igalia.com/chats/a11y-t...
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: Accessibility and the Free Labor Funnel
@bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with their colleagues Alice Boxhall and Valerie Young about the challenges facing standards and accessibility.
www.igalia.com/chats/a11y-t...
@bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with their colleagues Alice Boxhall and Valerie Young about the challenges facing standards and accessibility.
www.igalia.com/chats/a11y-t...
Sadly CSSWG decided to use the more traditional `:broken` spelling in the resolution just now... :)
Let's add a `:borken` pseudo-class for when an image fails to load
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Sadly CSSWG decided to use the more traditional `:broken` spelling in the resolution just now... :)