Web Platform Engineer at Igalia
Cardiff, UK
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It looks like Google is finally working on a way to support third-party browsers being able to install proper APKs for web apps. This is generally something that only Chrome can do currently. There's very little public documentation and it still seems quite early, but there's a new WebAppManager API added in Android 17.
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/webapp/WebAppManager
9/15/2026, 1 engagement
An early look at the accessibility work going on in Servo. Part of Igalia's Sovereign Tech Fund project.
https://www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/Igalia,-Servo,-and-the-Sovereign-Tech-Fund.html
1/12/2026, 1 engagement
Just got command buttons enabled in stable on WebKit trunk!
Firefox recently sent out an intent-to-ship so hopefully by early next year they'll be available across the board.
Making a new thread so it doesn't ping Adrian who wants a concrete resource for this. I would say that forced colours mode and prefers-contrast aren't actually as tightly coupled together as it might seem at first glance.
prefers-contrast works as a standalone media query with support on iOS, macOS, Android and some Linux distros. It just so happens to have two values that are only ever set as part of forced-colors mode.
To follow up command invokers shipping in stable chrome 135, I just landed a flag flip to preview status in WebKit!
(Meaning they'll be on by default in Safari Tech Preview but not yet for Stable)
3/13/2025, 1 engagement
Command Invokers are finally happening!
Chromium has an approved I2S and WebKit should be ready to ship to preview very soon.
Today it was merged into the HTML spec! https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-elements.html#attr-button-command
2/19/2025, 2 engagements
Are there any existing UI related features (CSS, JS or HTML) that aren't available cross-browser (either not implemented or buggy) that you wish were? If so can you say which and explain the use cases?
Specifically looking at existing things rather than new things you want (though feel free to share those too).
E.g. focus({focusVisible}) or hidden=until-found
1/27/2025, 1 engagement
Two new features for the HTML color input!
an alpha attribute, allowing the user to select a translucent color.
a colorspace attribute, allowing the author to choose between srgb and display-p3.
With either attribute present the value is a CSS color function instead of hex. Try it in STP 207!
11/21/2024, 1 engagement
Two cool improvements are coming to
soon ™️.