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

📝 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

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…

One week into November, Ladybird continues pushing forward on web-platform-tests! This is what grinding out a new browser looks like. No glamor, no shortcuts, just inching forward week after week. 🤓📈

On Feb 1st, 12:30 I'll be giving a lightning talk (15 min.) on Ladybird at FOSDEM @[email protected] in Brussels. After that quick talk I'm happy to have more in-depth discussions, so join me there!

Thanks to Gianluca Altomani and many others, Ladybird now passes 99.6% of the WebCryptoAPI WPT tests - the highest score of any browser! This API can be used for encryption and decryption, key generation, signature verification and other useful security features.

There's lots of data about the usage of web constantly declining, replaced by time on closed platforms (FB, Insta, TikTok) and apps. I think it's true. What are "only the web can do this" experiences you've seen? I want to create as a big a list as possible This comes to

First instance of a YouTube video playing in Ladybird! And with sound, too! 🤯🐞 This is with MediaSource disabled, so it's using the 360p h.264 MP4 fallback. Props to Lubrsi who just got this working tonight!

Flow now passes 90% of the web-platform-tests. 👋🇪🇺 👋Apple

“Can we use Wasmtime to build web script engine?” wusyong.github.io/posts/wasmtime… from Wu Yuwei explores the idea of using the (Rust-based) wasmtime github.com/bytecodeallian… WebAssembly runtime as the basis for a JavaScript engine (alternative to SpiderMonkey) for Servo

Chrome is moving away from LevelDB toward SQLite for all backend storage (for IndexedDB too). docs.google.com/document/d/1jW… says why: LevelDB is no longer being actively maintained (& was always expensive to maintain); SQLite is actively maintained & much better fit in practice anyway

My ahead-of-time JS engine Porffor eliminates JS cold starts on AWS Lambda. 12x faster and 2x cheaper than managed Node. Still very early but these results should speak for themselves :) Blog with details below.

Use XSLT3 in frontend JavaScript code in any browser: saxonica.com/html/saxonjs/i…. SaxonJS is “high-performance” JS library you can use right now in any web doc/app where you want to do client-side XSLT3 transformations. And stop whining about lack of native XSLT support in browsers.

meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/… “So it’s already been decided and we just have to bend over and take the changes our Googlish overlords have decreed!” many people shouted … but that’s not what’s happening here.

“Copy Link to Highlight” / scroll-to-text-fragment (creating deep links to arbitrary text/ranges in a web page without hardcoded IDs) is now also experimentally supported in the stable version of Firefox — when you set dom.text_fragments.create_text_fragment.enabled to true