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This week I'm in A Coruña, Galicia, attending the @webengineshackfest.org 👩‍💻 where we are discussing the future of web engines and standards. Given the potential impact on future web development, I thought it would be helpful to share some of my personal notes from the event. ✍️👇

⏱️ Day 0 👉 After hours of hiking in the beautiful Galician forest, we finally arrived in A Coruña. 🥾🌲 👋 Holis @jonkuperman.com and @danielroe.dev

⏱️ Day 1 👉 Valerie Young gave a talk about Web Platform Tests (WPT). These are test suites for Web platform specifications written in HTML but initially lacked complete accessibility support. 👉 She found a way to solve this by writing new tests in Python. Example github.com/web-platform...

👉 HarfBuzz is an open-source text shaping engine. 👉 Behdad Esfahbod gave a very cool demo using HarfBuzz (harfbuzz.github.io/hb-gpu-demo/) to compare WebGL and WebGPU for shaping and rasterisation in 3D within a browser.

👉 Eemeli Aro discussed a HTML proposal for localising websites without relying on custom solutions. github.com/mozilla/expl... 👉 Developers could bind elements to localised messages provided by a localisation resource. 👉 This HTML proposal complements the TC39 Proposal for Intl.MessageFormat in JS.

👉 atproto.com exists to decentralize social media by decoupling user data and identity from the applications built on top of them. 👉 Atmosphere are the web of apps that store and access data using the atproto 👉 Great explanation of npmx's role in the Atmosphere: docs.npmx.dev/integrations...

⏱️ Day 2 👉 We discussed date formatting without JS: 🤔 Where to implement the solution? ShadowDOM using the `<time>` element or CSS with the content property or both? 🤔 What is the scope? should we render absolute or relative time? 🤔 Accessibility? text selection? ✍️ Notes: hackmd.io/IJgF2r1DSuyZ...

👉 HTML-in-Canvas is a bridge implementation between HTML/CSS and pixel manipulation (Canvas/WebGL). 👉 Available in Chrome behind the `canvas-draw-element` flag. 👉 We discussed the challenges: cross-origin data leakage, video support, user state privacy, performance 👀 Demos: html-in-canvas.dev/demos/