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Simon Pieters

@zcorpan.bsky.social

Web standards engineer at Mozilla

249 Followers  |  146 Following  |  93 Posts  |  Joined: 11.05.2023  |  2.0505

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Jake's survey is closed.

06.11.2025 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe it's not the fastness that lowers the conversion rate, but something else, like maybe the fastest websites are more likely to have not-so-great design?

30.10.2025 10:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Accept cookies! Subscribe to our newsletter for 15% off! Hey, do you want to take a survey of how much you like our website?

18.09.2025 10:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We mentioned on Winging It that we might show some of our favorite browser tips. Here's one of many that I find delightful.

If you are working with shape-outside, then Firefox has a great path editor. I made a quick video to show how it works.

05.09.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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08.09.2025 08:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him ALT: a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him
08.09.2025 08:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interop 2026 is now open for proposals!

This is your chance to tell browser-makers which well-defined, well-tested features you wish had better support across browsers.

โฌ‡๏ธ Here's how โฌ‡๏ธ
github.com/web-platform...

04.09.2025 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Gecko: Intent to Ship: CSS View Transitions L1 Gecko: Intent to Ship: CSS View Transitions L1

Gecko: Intent to Ship: CSS View Transitions L1

28.08.2025 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Not saying you should but it should work

27.08.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Or <script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="..."/>! If there's at least one element in a known namespace, browsers switch away from the XML tree view.

27.08.2025 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Right, though ARIA attributes are superglobal.

27.08.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Needs bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...

27.08.2025 09:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did you know?

You can style XML with CSS using
<?xml-stylesheet href="style.css"?>

27.08.2025 08:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Yay! It's the first Firefox release since I've joined the team, so let's take a look at some of the new developer-facing features in Firefox 142โ€ฆ ๐Ÿงต

22.08.2025 09:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 279    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Live DOM Viewer

In your demo, the relevant element is a flex item, which is not inline.

Here's a demo showing that actual inline doesn't work: software.hixie.ch/utilities/js...

20.08.2025 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The part about display: inline is wrong.

This:

> establishes an inline formatting context and thus contains only inline-level boxes.

Refers to what the element contains. A block box establishes an inline formatting context when it has no block-level children. The element itself is still a block.

20.08.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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two men in suits are talking and the words we need to go deeper are on the screen Alt: We need to go deeper (scene from Inception)
20.08.2025 07:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sure. People used to call it XHTML. :) If there's an element in a known namespace browsers will apply the UA stylesheet. If you add a script element it will run (if scripting is enabled).

I don't know if feed readers will get confused though.

19.08.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Want to build faster websites? Here's how:

- Learn how browsers parse, layout & paint
- Treat JS as a tool, not the foundation(!)
- Favor static HTML or server side rendering at all times
- Use Core Web Vitals alongside other metrics to learn shortfalls, improve and iterate

Then keep doing that.

21.07.2025 01:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 120    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

It seems to me you should be able to use

<script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="polyfill.js"/>

19.08.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Let's apply the same logic to rendering images, video and audio...

18.08.2025 06:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

16.08.2025 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9421    ๐Ÿ” 3142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 476
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Email is Easy Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

e-mail.wtf

17.08.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 279    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 52

Yes. Remove it, Bruce! I know you can do it!

06.08.2025 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've never used LinkedIn

No ragrets

06.08.2025 12:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
HTML Standard

It's a bogus comment.
html.spec.whatwg.org#end-tag-open...

06.08.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

wait...it's up!

gitnation.com/contents/the-newโ€ฆ

25.06.2025 03:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Okay gang, those who sling HTML, CSS, JS, which _Firefox_ bugs are blocking you? Which features do you think need improving? What new features would you like to see? What work would you prioritise? Big or small, bonus points for linking to a bug (even more for filing bugs then linking them)!

17.06.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

โ€œYou might be familiar with SPAs, and MPAs, or actually RFWS (
Regular Fucking Web Sites)โ€ โ€” @cydstumpel.nl #CSSDay

05.06.2025 12:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Remove "X-UA-Compatible" pragma ยท Issue #11356 ยท whatwg/html What is the issue with the HTML Standard? https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#attr-meta-http-equiv-x-ua-compatible This is already specified to do nothing for UAs, but is allowed in documents. I think we...

github.com/whatwg/html/...

05.06.2025 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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