Jake Archibald
@jakearchibald.com
Developer of sorts at @firefox.com. No thought goes unpublished. He/him.
Isn't it already supported? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
CSS Custom Highlight API - Web APIs | MDN
The CSS Custom Highlight API provides a mechanism for styling arbitrary text ranges on a document by using JavaScript to create the ranges, and CSS to style them.
developer.mozilla.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Isn't it already supported? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
Oh yeah, love scrolling up and down trying to find one of "United Kingdom", "England", "Britain", "Great Britain"
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Oh yeah, love scrolling up and down trying to find one of "United Kingdom", "England", "Britain", "Great Britain"
Haha that's exactly what I did. Although I picked Virgin Islands by mistake
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Haha that's exactly what I did. Although I picked Virgin Islands by mistake
I guess the idea that a customer might be away from home isn't intuitive to A FUCKING AIRLINE
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I guess the idea that a customer might be away from home isn't intuitive to A FUCKING AIRLINE
You need to log in to see your list. But the titles are here if you don't want to do that github.com/jakearchibal...
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
You need to log in to see your list. But the titles are here if you don't want to do that github.com/jakearchibal...
I don't understand why some people are imagining what the descriptions are, and winding themselves up at their own imagination. The real descriptions are still right there on the site.
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I don't understand why some people are imagining what the descriptions are, and winding themselves up at their own imagination. The real descriptions are still right there on the site.
But these aren't the descriptions used in the site at all. If I used real features in the social image, I'd have been accused of promoting those features, so I deliberately made fake ones.
Also, the social image shows the 'old thing' being moved upwards, right?
Also, the social image shows the 'old thing' being moved upwards, right?
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
But these aren't the descriptions used in the site at all. If I used real features in the social image, I'd have been accused of promoting those features, so I deliberately made fake ones.
Also, the social image shows the 'old thing' being moved upwards, right?
Also, the social image shows the 'old thing' being moved upwards, right?
Cheers! Yeah, we've already talked about repurposing for other feature priority stuff.
Hopefully I can add some stuff to make ranking easier next time.
Hopefully I can add some stuff to make ranking easier next time.
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Cheers! Yeah, we've already talked about repurposing for other feature priority stuff.
Hopefully I can add some stuff to make ranking easier next time.
Hopefully I can add some stuff to make ranking easier next time.
I'm not sure why you're guessing about this when I've given you a link to the site which has all the titles and descriptions
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I'm not sure why you're guessing about this when I've given you a link to the site which has all the titles and descriptions
And it shows the old thing being dragged upwards, so if you're going to accuse the demo image of bias…
November 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
And it shows the old thing being dragged upwards, so if you're going to accuse the demo image of bias…
Perfect, thank you!
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Perfect, thank you!
I don't suppose you can get a demo together?
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I don't suppose you can get a demo together?
Heh! I'll raise this internally
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Heh! I'll raise this internally
Nope, but if we're talking about developer opinion, it's a data point. On a GitHub thread, a small number of people can seem very loud.
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Nope, but if we're talking about developer opinion, it's a data point. On a GitHub thread, a small number of people can seem very loud.
Unfortunately not right now. From the site:
> Given that this is an experiment, and isn't the only data source that will be considered as part of choosing Interop proposals, we may not publish a summary of the data publicly.
> Given that this is an experiment, and isn't the only data source that will be considered as part of choosing Interop proposals, we may not publish a summary of the data publicly.
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Unfortunately not right now. From the site:
> Given that this is an experiment, and isn't the only data source that will be considered as part of choosing Interop proposals, we may not publish a summary of the data publicly.
> Given that this is an experiment, and isn't the only data source that will be considered as part of choosing Interop proposals, we may not publish a summary of the data publicly.
A small group of developers are negative about it, but most don't care. We polled devs about Interop features recently (interop-rank.jakearchibald.com) and the XSLT proposal landed near the very bottom.
Interop Feature Ranking
Rank the web platform features you care most about
interop-rank.jakearchibald.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A small group of developers are negative about it, but most don't care. We polled devs about Interop features recently (interop-rank.jakearchibald.com) and the XSLT proposal landed near the very bottom.
It also means they can use hardware codecs
October 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It also means they can use hardware codecs
ah sorry! I assume the performance comes from using the VideoDecoder/Encoder APIs, so they're running in pure C (or whatever) rather than WASM.
October 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
ah sorry! I assume the performance comes from using the VideoDecoder/Encoder APIs, so they're running in pure C (or whatever) rather than WASM.
It doesn't use ffmpeg-wasm, it uses the VideoEncoder API.
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It doesn't use ffmpeg-wasm, it uses the VideoEncoder API.
It's good for conditionally loading polyfills and things like language packs. But yeah, it should only be used as a last resort.
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It's good for conditionally loading polyfills and things like language packs. But yeah, it should only be used as a last resort.
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It's good for conditionally loading polyfills and things like language packs. But yeah, it should only be used as a last resort.