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6 months

:has() is in Firefox beta from today, have fun:

Firefox Beta 121.0beta, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

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I join @mozilla as a Software Engineer full-time starting October 1st working on @firefox ! More details:

Joining Mozilla

On October 1st, I join Mozilla to work on Firefox full-time!

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Progress after *one night* of making a web engine from scratch (HTML and CSS parsers, layout, renderer frontend). Screenshot of :

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Small post formally introducing my browser engine, <shadow>: A new novel browser engine made almost entirely from scratch, in JS, runnable in your browser (for fun). Still very early (<1 week old from first line written) and WIP!

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Just wrote my first Node PR: 🚀 Thanks to @yagiznizipli for inspiration and review :)

fs: improve error performance for `rmdirSync` by CanadaHonk · Pull Request #49846 · nodejs/node

Results from i9/Linux/SSD: confidence improvement accuracy (*) (**) (***) fs/bench-rmdirSync.js n=10000 type='existing' ...

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6 months

Merged! Faster Node fs.writeFileSync() with UTF8 and strings as data. >2x faster when using file descriptors and larger data! 🎉🚀

fs: add c++ fast path for writeFileSync string utf8 by CanadaHonk · Pull Request #49884 · nodejs/...

Summary Added fast path in almost entirely C++ for writeFileSync with UTF8 encoding and string data. Also improves appendFileSync as it just uses writeFileSync under the hood. Only string data as B...

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6 months

@nodejs You'll probably find this the most interesting 👀 (featuring fresh new benchmarks!)

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1 year

@hikari_no_yume so good

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8 months

Adding <hr> in <select> to Gecko, hopefully in Firefox 120! (UI WIP)

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6 months

Also lazy loading iframes from yours truly :)

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9 months

New <search> element in Firefox 118 by yours truly :)

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Gecko: Intent to prototype and ship: <search> element

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10 months

Say hello to porffor, the newest JS engine on the block which compiles JS to Wasm, AOT, in just JS. From scratch excluding parser (using Acorn). 3 weeks old today, scoring >10% for test262.

Porffor

A from-scratch experimental AOT JS -> Wasm engine in JS

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8 months

Node FS writeFileSync and appendFileSync soon to get much (1.5-3x) faster with FDs and UTF8:

fs: add c++ fast path for writeFileSync string utf8 by CanadaHonk · Pull Request #49884 · nodejs/...

Summary Added fast path in almost entirely C++ for writeFileSync with UTF8 encoding and string data. Also improves appendFileSync as it just uses writeFileSync under the hood. Only string data as B...

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6 months

Another feature for work ✅

Firefox Nightly 🔥

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1 year

excited to announce I will be giving a breakout session at @webhackfest about my experiences as a new contributor to engines (mostly gecko)!

Getting into web engine contributing · Issue #20 · Igalia/webengineshackfest

Logistics Facilitator: @CanadaHonk Date & Time: Wednesday 7th at 12:00 CEST (local time) URL: https://meet.jit.si/Web-Engines-Hackfest-2023-Web-engine-contributing Description In January, I beg...

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1 year

@David3141593 uhm

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8 months

I am implementing *and* shipping attr(name, "fallback") for Firefox 119 today 🎉 First browser to implement or ship :) Test page: Detailed tests for attr():

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8 months

Gecko: Intent to prototype and ship: CSS attr() fallback

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1 year

@PresidentJose3 @soft_fox_lad Spotify uses CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) and Discord uses Electron (Chromium under the hood).

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6 months

My new machine/setup does a clobber build of Firefox in 3 minutes, my past setup took >50 minutes!

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9 months

10 new CSS functions! (shipped by yours truly)

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9 months

Gecko: Intent to ship: CSS Values 4 Math functions

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5 months

for I am become code reviewer, destroyer of CIs

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6 months

Me: oh I wonder if this tiny change will impact perf "-26% improvement" oh, okay then

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8 months

Node sync *times fs funcs hopefully soon to 🔥🚀 (PR shortly from yours truly)

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6 months

Added CSS var() and inline SVG support to Shadow, looks much better now!

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6 months

👀

doc: add CanadaHonk to triagers by CanadaHonk · Pull Request #50848 · nodejs/node

I started making PRs and discussing in issues a few months ago, mostly perf related. Becoming a triager helps the workflow and is more of a commitment for the future :) I have read the Code of Cond...

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10 months

My JS engine/compiler passes 8.8% of test262 after ~2 weeks since creation. Most passing are parsing tests (using acorn not my own parser) but still nice :)

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5 months

Got some very good news I can share soon 👀

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1 year

Made a dashboard thing for looking at how well new (level 5) CSS media queries are supported in current browsers:

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11 months

Just finished my breakout session @webhackfest , was very anxious at the start but was good by the end :) Thanks to all who attended and Igalians for managing everything!

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7 months

Shadow now supports text wrapping! 🤏

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1 year

@NoodleVEVO Electron/etc isn't the problem, developers writing unoptimized huge React webapps is. You can make fast and small apps using web tech if you know what you're doing, just most people don't :(

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7 months

Progress after night two! Now featuring: - rewritten block/inline model - working links! with preview hint and cursor - light/dark color scheme with switching - basic inspect/debug overlay - many more improvements Demo video:

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7 months

Progress after *one night* of making a web engine from scratch (HTML and CSS parsers, layout, renderer frontend). Screenshot of :

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9 months

@MishaalRahman You have no right to gatekeep builds of someone else's project behind a paywall (profiting you). The GitHub repo lacks a license, so it is all rights reserved for the owners - including binaries. You are violating their legal rights :)

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7 months

shadow is *somehow* at the top of hacker news for the last ~30 minutes. and everyone is being cool? gg @awesomekling

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5 months

Imagine all the bytes saved if URLs never used trailing slashes (they shouldn't be needed, do @ me)

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7 months

My approach to conferences has gone from never going to one, to submitting talks to interesting ones as I see them because the worst happens is someone says no, and that's okay! The biggest thing I've learnt is to just apply to things, because there isn't really a risk (usually)

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10 months

My JS engine now has arrays and strings!

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2 years

@roscosmos hey guys you forgot to lock the replies to this tweet. let's go Ukraine 🇺🇦

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7 months

The sponsorering (sorry if I missed you)

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7 months

alright, you convinced me:

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7 months

Now public! Please keep in mind it is 2 days old and terrible (both code and itself). Day three progress: - rewritten block/inline model (again) - welcome page - various more improvements and internal rewrites

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7 months

Progress after night two! Now featuring: - rewritten block/inline model - working links! with preview hint and cursor - light/dark color scheme with switching - basic inspect/debug overlay - many more improvements Demo video:

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7 months

oh wow, my engine runs in @ServoDev . not really usable, but that it has any output is still amazing! cc @dazabani ;)

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10 months

@awesomekling That font rendering is impressive

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6 months

Another work intent 🎉

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6 months

Gecko: Intent to prototype and ship: <hr> in <select>

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8 months

@yagiznizipli ...and 2nd:

fs: improve error performance for `mkdirSync` by CanadaHonk · Pull Request #49847 · nodejs/node

Results from i7 Windows laptop: confidence improvement accuracy (*) (**) (***) fs\bench-mkdirSync.js n=1000 recursive='fal...

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6 months

Nodejs compile times are limiting me more than Firefox's, heh.

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8 months

PR:

fs: improve error perf of sync `lstat`+`fstat` by CanadaHonk · Pull Request #49868 · nodejs/node

Results from i7 Windows laptop: confidence improvement accuracy (*) (**) (***) fs\bench-statSync-failure.js th...

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6 months

Officially a @nodejs triager now 🎉

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7 months

2nd work intent :^)

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7 months

Gecko: Intent to prototype and ship: iframe lazy loading

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9 months

My JS engine now supports for...of! :)

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6 months

Shadow can now run (and display) the SunSpider JS benchmark! ☀🚀

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11 months

Published V1 of - a like dashboard, but for test262 (standard JS/ECMAScript test suite)! Very WIP (a few days old), please (share and) give feedback!

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5 months

I have begun rewriting Porffor (my JS engine) to use runtime types instead of the previous compile-time type inference (jank). Basic demo works now! 🎉 I have been dreading this for a long time (and it was harder than expected). Quite a lot is broken for now (todo!)

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9 months

Working on CSS attr() fallback for Gecko, example: content: attr(data-test, "default value") No other browser has touched this or other advanced attr() features yet (not usage anywhere, just types/fallback). Some rambling for you: (1/3)

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7 months

Start page for Kraken (older JS benchmark) an hour ago (completely broken/blank) vs now (~spot on) ⚡ Many layout and other fixes! If you want to compare in your browser:

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7 months

@awesomekling Your JIT series made me have the urge to hack on something :^)

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6 months

Shadow's HTML parser no longer crashes for ! Also, when CSS fails to parse it is now ignored instead of crashing.

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10 months

My JS Engine now passes >10% of test262 🎉

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1 year

@FarSideOfMoonvy 你好，我是做Gluon的，有什么问题可以随时问我。(用的是翻译机，抱歉。)

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6 months

Found out why crashed (again) in Shadow and fixed it! % CSS values were not happy. Looks... interesting now?

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5 months

For once, I am in a blog writing mood. Two posts for Thursday? (a professional one, and a rambling one about my JS engine and why I haven't touched it for months and oh god why did my past self do this)

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8 months

@yagiznizipli ...and 3rd ;) okay I'll stop posting them now

fs: improve error performance for `unlinkSync` by CanadaHonk · Pull Request #49856 · nodejs/node

Results from i7 Windows laptop: confidence improvement accuracy (*) (**) (***) fs\bench-unlinkSync.js n=1000 type='existing' ...

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6 months

@nodejs You'll probably find this the most interesting 👀 (featuring fresh new benchmarks!)

fs: add c++ fast path for writeFileSync string utf8 by CanadaHonk · Pull Request #49884 · nodejs/...

Summary Added fast path in almost entirely C++ for writeFileSync with UTF8 encoding and string data. Also improves appendFileSync as it just uses writeFileSync under the hood. Only string data as B...

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1 year

@Una Firefox's CSS code is written in Rust though 🤠

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1 year

Yet another intent™️ (from yours truly)

Intent To Ship

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1 year

Gecko: Intent to prototype and ship: URL.canParse()

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6 months

I updated all my still open @nodejs (perf) PRs I started a few months ago, all tests pass now 🎉🫡

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8 months

@intenttoship @bashorov Wasm GC shipping in Firefox 120!!

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9 months

@briankardell I got shocked at seeing me (in 9th total) on the mozilla-central graph haha

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5 months

I was going to write a joke engagement bait post ala "what browser engines do you know??! comment below:" but now I'm actually curious which ones people know in 2023?

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8 months

@brucel @Keithamus Great example, you can also use it as an attribute like the following via our new Explicit Doctyping™️ technology: <html doctype="yes"> ... </html>

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1 year

@David3141593 @zagdrath they are used in metrics/analytics:

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6 months

Second devlog of Shadow, my novel browser engine, is up! Covers everything from last week: big layout additions, perf improvements, and more!

Shadow Devlog #2

What's new in Shadow from last week (Oct 31-Nov 6)

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7 months

Shadow has slain the Kraken (JS benchmark)! It now runs, and even displays results! 🐙 Also, Shadow can now use the host engine (like eval), not just Wasm, so we can take advantage of JITs (if you choose). ⚡ Commits/push soon! Full recording of the run:

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11 months

Slides:

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6 months

Any (popular and/or niche) JS packages you know in need of some perf 👀/♥? might take some looks

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9 months

New test page! Coming soon to a Gecko near you 🦎

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9 months

Working on CSS attr() fallback for Gecko, example: content: attr(data-test, "default value") No other browser has touched this or other advanced attr() features yet (not usage anywhere, just types/fallback). Some rambling for you: (1/3)

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8 months

I start a new job, my first full-time software job, October 1st (details then), would you be interested in blog(s) on info/details/opinions as it happens? (good luck job seekers!)

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11 months

Started a new project which will hurt your brain: javascript aot wasm compiler (in javascript) Yes. It is very limited (knowingly), but works for basic math/number things. Why? I had the idea, so I did it.

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6 months

I might write a blog post (wow, I know) about how misleadingly simple some web platform features can be (to implement). Mostly as I find it mildly interesting and fell into this trap at least 3 times this year lol.

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1 year

q&a: why contribute to firefox instead of others? mostly because they have imo the best setup for (external) contributing and seem generally most accepting of contributions in my experience, although probably because they unfortunately need them the most. but love all* engines :)

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1 year

3rd fastest growing repo on github. what

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1 year

@stevenpetryk gluon-framework/gluon 🎉 308 🌟 today 910 🌟 total

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6 months

Added initial support for CSS pseudo-elements to Shadow - :root, :link (and :any-link). Not much for now but more to come later ⏱

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5 months

"small" metadata update

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7 months

More advanced CSS (and JS) support in Shadow! 🎨 It's one week old as of today 🗓️ Next up: borders and pseudo classes 🖼️🔗 Devlog post later today about progress since last post (Oct 27) 📝 Rendering

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6 months

no longer crashes Shadow. Looks quite broken but kind of works?

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6 months

QuickJS coming back? 👀🤨

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé

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6 months

📢 Introducing QuickJS-ng! My buddy Ben and I have been working on reingniting the QuickJS project. We just released a new version with top level await and many more ES features, check it out! You can easily install it with jsvu: 🚀

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6 months

What JS runtime do you actually use 90% of the time?

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5 months

Okay, let's try a firefox dev stream in ~10 minutes? ✅ mic ❌ webcam meh time guaranteed with me having no idea about streaming!

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canadahonk streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.

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7 months

@tmikov @kadikraman This 100%. I made a benchmark before and used an array of 16 numbers instead of 16 arguments, I changed it to 16 arguments and it was ~10x faster in Node.

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5 months

@moondustmaddie @luciascarlet it's enabled in 121, which is currently in beta and due for release on Dec 19 :)

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6 months

Added a link to report Shadow page crashes on GitHub Issues (prefilled title and body). You should if you encounter them ;)

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1 year

I have a cycle of seeing a cool CSS feature in spec which has no support and then spending hours investigating if I can add it to Firefox, and usually the answer is (eventually) yes :)

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1 year

my first (slightly significant) css spec PR was merged \o/

[cssom-1] Add CSSImportRule supportsText attribute by CanadaHonk · Pull Request #8712 · w3c/csswg...

Added a supportsText attribute to CSSImportRule to allow access to supports conditions declared in @import rules. Closes #8710.

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1 year

@stubbornella For Chrome, uBlock Origin is basically the defacto and allows you to pretty easily customise lists for what to block (ads, social media, malware, bad ads especially, etc)

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7 months

Bonus @torproject donation

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6 months

Shadow no longer renders elements offscreen, results in most sites being ~1.5x faster to render 🖌🚀 Also bonus debug UI 📊📈 (shift + Z)

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1 year

@Greyluck_ @soft_fox_lad Node isn't the issue, it consumes barely anything when compared to Chromium.

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7 months

@RickByers Feels less competitive with more cooperation but engine diversity has still gotten worse anyway. I hope the first trend continues while new novel engines like LibWeb (Ladybird) and Servo become viable long term.

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1 year

another media query level 5 feature done, and shipping in firefox 113! 🎉 test page: demo video: