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Eric Meyer @meyerweb.com · Aug 22

⌨️ Comin’ in hot on a Friday afternoon with a Web Discourse blog post! XSLT, Google, and… flame wars? meyerweb.com/eric/thought...

No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT

The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Jul 11

I've been working on and off this problem since April. I'm glad it's finally done: commits.webkit.org/297270@main

docs.google.com: Can't type with Devanagari input source · WebKit/WebKit@1322eea

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295763 Reviewed by Wenson Hsieh. The bug was caused by WebKit dispatching keydown event after composition and input events when handling key events with in...

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Apr 22

I bought myself a new laptop with M4 Max and my goodness, it's shockingly fast. 😳

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Mar 31

Speedometer 3.1 has been released:

browserbench.org/announcement...

Announcing Speedometer 3.1

Speedometer 3.1 is a minor version bump fixing the benchmark harness to improve measurement accuracy.

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Mar 27

In particular, we had a very interesting discussion on how we can support server-side rendering of a webpage with a browser native templating engine, and how we can proceed with an API like DOM parts or persistent DocumentFragment.

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Mar 27

We had very productive discussions of scoped custom element registries, DOM parts, and template instantiation as a part of W3C breakout day! Thank you all for participating!

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Mar 16

commits.webkit.org/292246@main

This completes the deployment of all smart pointer static analyzers in WebKit. They warn against use of raw pointers and references in WebKit, paving a way for safer web browsing experience.

Enable RetainPtr checkers and forward declaration checker · WebKit/WebKit@770f295

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289828 Reviewed by David Kilzer. Enable the following WebKit.alpha checkers: - alpha.webkit.ForwardDeclChecker - Detects forward declared types. - alpha.we...

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Feb 28

Please don't publish / release a polyfill for unshipped Web features. Someone is bound to use it in production and ruin it for everyone else.

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Feb 16

You're a lot more optimistic than I'm about this feature ever being shippable.

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Feb 14

commits.webkit.org/290381@main

Sigh... requestIdleCallback is a really doomed feature. We're never gonna ship it.

Unreviewed, reverting 289832@main. · WebKit/WebKit@e6f3a0b

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287681 Caused a page load regression in Googlec Reverted changeset: "Re-enable requestIdleCallback on Apple ports" https://bugs.webkit.org/show...

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Feb 6

Trying to enable requestIdleCallback in WebKit once more. Hopefully this one sticks:
commits.webkit.org/289832@main

Re-enable requestIdleCallback on Apple ports · WebKit/WebKit@3524ffe

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285049 Reviewed by Chris Dumez. Re-enabled the feature on Apple ports now that various regressions have been fixed. * Source/WTF/Scripts/Preferences/Unifi...

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Feb 3

Finally killing mutation events. Hopefully this sticks. commits.webkit.org/289739@main

Disable mutation events by default · WebKit/WebKit@909da23

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286161 Reviewed by Chris Dumez and Tim Nguyen. Disabled DOM mutation events by default. Keep the feature as testable since a lot of layout tests rely on m...

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Dec 21

Sigh... another perf regression. We're never gonna ship requestIdleCallback at this rate.

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Ryosuke Niwa @rniwa.bsky.social · Dec 14

@annevk.nl and I worked on a refined proposal to untie scoped element registry from shadow DOM so that you can use a scoped registry without shadow DOM. Your feedback is appreciated:
github.com/whatwg/html/...