Kadir Topal

@atopal.bsky.social

Web Platform Product Manager at Google. Previously at Protocol Labs and Mozilla.

Did you attend #CSSDay and saw my talk (or heard about it), and you really want CSS Grid Lanes to be supported across browsers? ➡️ Give this issue a thumbs-up *and* add a comment explaining your use case. This can help a lot move things forward 💟 github.com/web-platform...

Masonry · Issue #308 · web-platform-dx/developer-signals

This GitHub issue is for collecting web developer signals for Masonry. The display: grid-lanes or display: inline-grid-lanes CSS declaration creates a layout where items are tightly packed, like br...

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Thrilled this is out, keeping quiet has been SO HARD! 🤐 I’ve had the opportunity to contribute as a domain expert consultant over the past few months, and saw firsthand the level of thoughtfulness and care that went into it. Proud to have played a small part, and excited to see what folks build! ❤️

Chrome for Developers@developer.chrome.com · 4mo ago

Ensure your coding agents build modern, fast & secure apps by default → goo.gle/3PcqfGj We just announced Modern Web Guidance at #GoogleIO. It injects AI-ready skills and modern features—with Baseline Widely Available fallbacks—so your agent stays up to date 🧵

Btw you don’t need to be a web spec author or work for a browser vendor to contribute to this. If you spot some incorrect data (either says it supports web it doesn’t, or says it doesn’t when it does) then open an issue — or better yet a PR! Make things better for everyone, including future you!!

Patrick Brosset@patrickbrosset.com · 10mo ago

The browser-compat-data project (used by MDN, caniuse, and tools) now has: 20,000 commits 1,123 contributors 465 releases 19,148 data entries That's what comprehensive web compat data looks like. And it takes well funded teams at @openwebdocs.org and @mozilla.org plus amazing contributors.

Browser window showing the browser-compat-data github repo homepage, which shows that the project now contains 20,000 commits.

The @e18e.dev community does amazing work to speed up and modernize the web Now's as good a time as ever to join and contribute to this hugely impactful project!

e18e

Ecosystem Performance

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James@43081j.com · 8mo ago

Big news! Google have sponsored the @e18e.dev community $10k via their Chrome performance fund 🎉 I'm very thankful we've managed to create a space and a community people appreciate. Sponsorships like this will benefit the ecosystem, not just this community

A few years ago I started writing about evolving web standards and @rbyers.net suggested I should cover WPT: the web platform tests project that most people working with the web have a vague idea about that has evolved into an engine of interoperability. since then, I've been tracking people down

How a Shared Test Suite Fixed the Web’s Biggest Problems

The story of Web Platform Tests (WPT), the collaborative test suite that transformed the web from an inconsistent platform into a stable one.

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i don't enjoy the romanticizing of some golden past of the web that web never died you made all the decisions about where to publish and where to spend your time

I know some people in the web community are concerned that Baseline will discourage devs from using new features—or anything not "Widely Available". Personally, I'm not worried about that at all. If anything, I think Baseline will speed up new feature adoption! Here's why 🧵

🎉 Happy 30-month anniversary to Container Queries – in every browser since Feb, 2023. It was supposed to be impossible, but here we are! Why 2.5 years? Nothing will change tomorrow, but Baseline uses this milestone to signal confidence a feature has gained "wide" support. youtu.be/bhHV0rQ3-CQ