Steven Beshensky

Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share? - Open Web Advocacy

We also wrote about our concerns about the loss of smaller browser vendors such as Mozilla if search engine deals with them were banned:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/is-it-w...

Break Google’s Search Monopoly without Breaking the Web - Open Web Advocacy

We were however broadly supportive of the DOJ case and supported ending Apple and Google's $20 billion a year search deal, and other remedies in the case:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-g...

Breaking: Google Appeals Final Judgment in DOJ Case

Google is requesting a stay on certain provisions of the Final Judgment pending Google’s appeal of the Court’s liability and remedies rulings.

I still haven't sorted out how to handle the cables. Just hiding them 😅

A conversation with an incredibly technical friend last night made it clear to me that the biggest change in computing of the last 15 years eludes the SV blob: most client devices are slow, low-end Androids with *incredible*, *up-to-date* browsers.

PWA install experience is top-notch (on desktop) …when using Chromium-browsers…on Mac OS.

I've been using more and more PWAs on desktop and I'm really impressed by the install experience
grooovinger.com/notes/pwa-in...

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…

One of my hopes for 2026 is that browser vendors take more responsibility for today's pervasively bad experiences. Nobody wants a slow site, but they also don't want to dismiss a mailing-list pop-up that blocks scrolling. Browsers need to step in:

infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

🚀 We just shipped v0.214.0!

TypeScript receives pretty errors! 🎉

Thanks KyleBarton!

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WebGPU is now supported in major browsers  |  Blog  |  web.dev Read about the biggest web graphics launch since WebGL. WebGPU is supported across major browsers, bringing unparalleled performance to the web.

Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple all came together to celebrate this great milestone:

WebGPU is now supported in major browsers!

Check out our post.

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…

Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time:

infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

Best I can do is make a terrible responsive design site that loads about 100MB of JS, images, and fonts. Can I interest you in our React Native mobile app that's totally worth your time?

Just a few more years and we'll all have fast devices! It's coming, you just wait. Surely the next process node shrink will be cheaper.

Geekbench 6 single-core scores over time at 4 price points: - fastest iOS - fastest Android - mid-tier Android - low-end Android

How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.

I stared into the abyss and 12MB of uncompressed JS, containing thousands of SVG icons, webpacked into cursed React components stared backed like a horrifying fractal of beady little eyes.

Thank you for all your support—this means so much to us!

survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technol...

We need leaders on the web who understand the stakes. The wealth bubble has made a lot of these people extremely complacent, and over time, that seems to have dulled them...which makes it a mystery that they keep talking like they know things.

YouTube video by The Verge Bring back the iBook, you cowards | The Vergecast

The Vergecast:

"iPad just isn't the same as a mac", and all that.

Then Nilay asks "What does a mac represent to you?"

David: "Desktop-class browsers."

Nilay: "You want Chrome! You want Chrome and Electron apps!"

In other words: competing browser engines on i(Pad)OS.

youtu.be/Br00gLOtB-c?...

I’ve become accustomed to my iPhone at this point, but boy howdy does safari disappoint me at every opportunity it gets. The DMA has been in effect for long enough that I wish they’d challenge Apple’s awful rules for building a real browser.

YouTube video by Decoder with Nilay Patel Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web | Decoder

Watch the original Verge interview here:
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=78w6...

Tim Berners-Lee On Apple’s Browser Engine Ban and Web Apps - Open Web Advocacy

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and HTML, has expressed support for compelling Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS. He also states that having a powerful browser on iOS would "change the dynamic" with respect to web app's viability on mobile.
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Yesterday at TPAC I publicized my draft proposal for adding a declarative templating API to the DOM.

github.com/justinfagnan...

The repo has:

📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework

There's still a lot to do on this to make it a real proposal and to document the motivation and rationale more thoroughly, but I think it's a good start.

I'm looking for feedback, suggestions, and co-champions if anyone out there is interested!

The time is right for a DOM templating API

Also see my previous blog posts on templating APIs:

justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/t...

justinfagnani.com/2025/06/30/w...

Here’s a step by step guide on how to block 3rd-party trackers automatically: Open Firefox. Done.

web components

Zed is my day to day editor. Rarely do I run into any reason to have another editor installed. For the very large codebase I work on, it's much quicker to boot and search files than anything I've used before.

Wes and Scott talk about what makes Zed—the hot new editor built in Rust—fast, beautiful, and finally ready for primetime. From Git UI to extensions and AI tools, they break down what Zed gets right,… Zed is Ready For Primetime

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRK3...

Out of the box @Zed.dev is looking pretty nice

We find that the WebKit restriction restricts the ability of rival mobile browsers to innovate and develop features, and increases their costs. It therefore creates a barrier to entry and expansion for rival mobile browsers on Apple’s Mobile Ecosystem and limits the competitive constraint on Safari.

The CMA found Apple's ban on browser engines restricts the ability of third-party browsers to innovate and develop features.
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