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domenic.me/streams-standa… from @domenic. “A response to James Snell's "We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript", and a reflection on what it means to develop and implement web standards.” Worth taking the time to read in full.

World's first memory safe X post. WebKitGTK compiled with Fil-C++ sitting on top of a 100% Fil-C/Fil-C++ userland It's still very slow and unreliable, but it's a full featured web browser, including a memory safe (JITless) JS impl

justhtml: A pure-Python 100% spec-conforming HTML(5) parser, with zero dependencies. From @EmilStenstrom. Relatively fast, and returns plain Python objects (a set of nested objects you can iterate over), not lxml/etree trees (so, no new API to learn). github.com/EmilStenstrom/…

We are proud to share that Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird at the Platinum level ($100,000)! It means a lot that a big player like Cloudflare is supporting a small team like ours in building an independent browser for the open web! We're super grateful! 🧡☁️

“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

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.

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.

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.

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

“Can we use Wasmtime to build web script engine?” wusyong.github.io/posts/wasmtime… from @Yu_Wei_Wu explores the idea of using the (Rust-based) wasmtime #readme" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/bytecodeallian… WebAssembly runtime as the basis for a JavaScript engine (alternative to @SpiderMonkeyJS) for @ServoDev

This one is such a key insight from @awesomekling. If you hire many engineers, you (typically) get many lines of code. The result is a vast code base that is costly to maintain further.

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

First instance of a YouTube video playing in @ladybirdbrowser! 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!

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 mind: ciechanow.ski/moon/

Thanks to @devgianlu and many others, @ladybirdbrowser 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.

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

One week into November, @ladybirdbrowser 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. 🤓📈

Wanna learn how to build a browser from scratch? Check out browser.engineering by @pavpanchekha and @chrishtr 🤓🌐📘 In this (free) book, you build a "basic but complete web browser, from networking to JavaScript, in a couple thousand lines of Python"