Brian Kardell

New Blog Post: A New Browser Vision? In which I share some thoughts about the state of things, and how maybe (realistically?) we could hope to change them. bkardell.com/blog/NewBrow...

We're meeting at TPAC in just a bit (8:30am in Dublin) about all of the various uses and needs for Web Views ... www.w3.org/events/meeti...

At TPAC today, Igalia’s Nicolò Ribaudo will lead a breakout on AsyncContext, the TC39 proposal that carries values across async JavaScript. It’s useful for things like frontend telemetry. Spec authors, come tell us what you need from it. 📍 Second Floor, Room 05, 15:30 GMT www.w3.org/events/meeti...

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CSS-Tricks has a new owner! Yes, I've got the keys to the castle, so to speak. And, even after 12 years of working on the site, I'll admit I'm a little overwhelmed and nervous about that. https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/

The W3C TAG has published the Group Note: User Agents www.w3.org/TR/user-agen... It describes what makes software a user agent, and the duties a user agent owes to the user: protection, honesty, and loyalty. Feedback welcome: github.com/w3ctag/user-...

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

bonjour Paris 🤚

Lazy day before my big trip. 1hr tiny painting (6x8 maybe?), oil on masonite. I always like the start. Maybe I'll just leave it. www.instagram.com/p/DenTAwGtqa...

Happy World Browser Day! I've long used "long live the web" as my motto/tagline, so today I published a blog post explaining what this phrase means to me: longlivetheweb.org/not-a-manife...

Someone ringing me up today gave me a senior discount - the limit for which is close to 15 years older than my age. I can't stop thinking out it.

It's Reading List 262, darlings! brucelawson.co.uk/2026/reading...

Anyone want to join an API naming discussion? matchContainer() confused me the first time I saw it (it makes more sense now), and a Chromium reviewer had the same reaction. Ideas welcome! github.com/w3c/csswg-dr... #css #csswg

How is this a website in this, the year of our Bob 2026? @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social if you need help, call me.

Do we need a `<poster>` element? Scott thinks so and is yet again on the journey of extending the web. Scott was also part of bringing lazy loading to videos, and he's on to the next topic: responsive images in video elements. https://scottjehl.com/po...

Introducing the Accessible Components Library! Common components with accessibility requirements, test scenarios, and automated tests. • Free to use and adapt • Human-readable tests in Gherkin • Mapped to WCAG 2.2, levels A to AAA Dig in! #Accessibility #OpenSource #WCAG #AccessibleComponents

⌨️ The Interop 2027 process is moving along, and now is the time for ranking proposals! And blogging about it! https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2026/10/14/my-interop-2027-rankings/

Is it tired in here, or is it me?

Remember Jort Sort? @jennschiffer.com legend jort.technology

I've started taking notes by hand in meetings and when I'm focused to remember to do stuff without getting distracted in the moment - the only trouble is I can't read my own writing half the time.

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats Interop 2027: The polls are open! @meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com talk about Interop 2027 - what's been submitted, people's thoughts so far, how to participate, and the difficulty of deciding. www.igalia.com/chats/intero...

Sometimes I think maybe I need a chair that I strap into like an F1 driver or an astronaut or something to keep my shoulders back.

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Do i even like this so far? Idk

Capitalism? What about lowercasism?

Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.

☺️ having an extra day off in a week is the shit. I kinda wish we only worked 4 days

Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.

Sometimes I see these very convincing, clever, probably hard to detect scams - but very often it is pretty low effort and I bet it is a lot like mass mailings in general in the fact that the hit rate being low doesn't really matter, as long as it's wide enough?

The web needs interactive lists - @codingchaos.bsky.social sarahmhigley.com/writing/inte...

aamtest: Testing accessibility in WPT blogs.igalia.com/mrego/aamtes... This blog post covers the work @igalia.com has been doing to add a new type of tests in WPT, which allow testing the platform accessibility APIs directly. Thanks to NLnet Foundation for sponsoring this work.

Remember Internet Explorer’s “Page Transitions”? Well, they’re back, thanks to the View Transition API! → Blog post: brm.us/page-transit... → Demo site: page-transitions.style The project leverages IE’s meta tags so browser support is not limited to Modern Browsers™ but also includes IE 5.5–8.0 😆

Today is the deadline so I just kicked one off to save the slot. github.com/w3c/tpac2026... @bkardell.com @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy WDYT? Does this sound like something that you'd be interested in?

It's wild to me that when I am using a website and see that it's using nearly a gb of memory when my first computer had 16k, you know?

What do you want us to work on in 2027? Here's a web app where you can rank the Interop proposals you care about, giving us data we can use to prioritise feature development. interop-rank.fxdx.dev

I really hate that so many news sites make it impossible to know what parts of the page are story vs ads, or where the story ends... I find myself scrolling through garbage wondering where the rest of the story is, and eventually decide it just doesn't even exist.

I like that @keithamus.social keeps trying to carry old things across the finish line. It's such a shame that so many thing fizzle after so much work and good ideas. The web needs more (paid) people doing this.

Standards In Progress: Making Video Posters Accessible, Responsive, and an Element scottjehl.com/posts/respon...

Today that I read "AJAX" and it felt odd, and I realized that I don't use that term anymore. Is it still widely used?

when you die all the jokes you forgot before you could post them flash before your eyes

Dublin, Ireland · TPAC 2026 W3C TPAC hackathon.. A "TPACathon", if you will. https://www.w3.org/2026/10/TPAC/hackathon/

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Pennsylvania has now topped 1000 measles cases this year all by itself. Well done MAHA. Should be GADA - Give Americans Diseases again.

Last month at Rustconf, @atbrakhi.bsky.social gave a talk about “Servo DevTools: Where Rust Meets JavaScript.” The talk has been published by the Rust Foundation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7R...

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

From Physics Today (physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha...): ‘When asked what he will do for the rest of today, Halzen replied “I’m working on a proposal. I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’

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