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Simon Fraser

@smfr.bsky.social

WebKit developer, cyclist, steam engine builder @smfr@mastodon.social

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Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear.

09.02.2026 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s going to be a mess!

20.12.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of boingboing.net, showing an article entitled "Cory Doctorow explains how to rescue the internet from enshittification on The Daily Show". There is a subscription banner on top of the article, and it's surrounded by intrusive ads.

A screenshot of boingboing.net, showing an article entitled "Cory Doctorow explains how to rescue the internet from enshittification on The Daily Show". There is a subscription banner on top of the article, and it's surrounded by intrusive ads.

Boing Boing! proving that everything becomes enshittified

12.12.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That sucks. Hugs for you!

14.11.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
WebKit Bugzilla

I'd be happy to get WebKit folks to look at this if you're willing to share you app and the content. You can do so by using Feedback Assistant to file an issue, or bugs.webkit.org for things that are OK to be public.

05.09.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Can't sleep, clown will eat me.

03.05.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She was great!

02.02.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CSS Shapes Module Level 2

Responsive CSS shapes are coming
drafts.csswg.org/css-shapes-2...

Implemented in Chrome Canary & Safari Technology Preview

Blog post etc. soon

21.01.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

NOAA needs to get some usability experts to review their statement format.

06.12.2024 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thursday’s tsunami warning highlights confusion that comes with some NWS alerts At 10:44 Pacific Time Thursday, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California near Eureka. The strength of this earthquake prompted the National Tsunami Warning Center to i…

I see this is discussed in ingallswx.com/2024/12/05/t...

06.12.2024 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The NOAA statements are also very easy to misinterpret. For example if you had a link to the statement from NOAA HONOLULU HI, it was very easy to read the "THE TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE HAS NOW PASSED" text and assume the threat has gone everywhere.

05.12.2024 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

`overflow:clip` and `clip-path` different. `overflow:clip` is more similar to `overflow:hidden` but never allows scrolling, and doesn’t create a stacking context; `clip-path` does.

03.12.2024 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Did you consider clip-path instead of mask? It’s more efficient to render.

02.12.2024 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve made some efforts recently to make the build faster. Shame we don’t see a decrease in the last week or so.

01.12.2024 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

z-index is never unbeatable; it’s contained within its enclosing stacking context, so some other stacking context can get on top.

21.11.2024 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Make creative borders with background-clip border-area How’d you like to use CSS to easily create a border from an image or gradient?

It was fun to implement "background-clip: border-area" in WebKit. I hope you do cool things with it! webkit.org/blog/16214/b...

20.11.2024 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did you go to see the Western Flyer, which is moored near Woodward Marine Market?

16.11.2024 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I chose the "suggestive" label.

14.11.2024 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A photograph from ground level of an ugly fungal growth that looks vaguely phallic

A photograph from ground level of an ugly fungal growth that looks vaguely phallic

Behold this fungal monstrosity that showed up in our back yard.

11.11.2024 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0