Luke
@lukewarlow.dev
💻 Web Platform Engineer at @igalia.com Participate in WhatWG, CSSWG, OpenUI CG 🦆 Nature lover 🏴 Cardiff
Dark mode. Do the websites & web apps made by your team support dark mode? If not, why not? What do you want to know most to help empower your team to support it?! What’s the blocker? What is confusing or hard about dark mode? #css #web #development #design
Authentication on the web is such a mess and it's such an own goal. Why do I have 3 different popups rendering next to my inputs just because I have a password manager installed.
Igalia Improving The Firefox Experience For Valve's Steam Deck - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-Better-Firefox
Igalia Improving The Firefox Experience For Valve's Steam Deck
The Igalia consulting firm working with Valve is aiming to improve the Firefox web browsing experience when running on the Steam Deck handheld Linux-powered device...
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Do you use the HTML `<meter>` element? If so when do you use it, and what kinda styling do you use? If you don't use it, are there use cases where you would but don't for some reason? If so what are those reasons.
Do you make websites? What do you wish <select> listbox did? Or didn’t do? This is the HTML. Currently, it automatically creates a listbox with 4 options showing. <select id="foobar" multiple> If you want 6 items showing, you write <select id="foobar" multiple item="6">. What should it be?
🆕 Customize MDN's browser compat tables! Press ⚙️ Settings on any compat table to choose which browsers and engines you see, and hide the ones you don't need. Your picks are saved in your browser. Try it 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
Today Igalia turns 25. Ten engineers started it in A Coruña in 2001 with no investors and no managers. There are now close to 200 of us, and everything we build still goes upstream. igalia.com/2026/09/21/T...
It looks like Google is finally working on a way to support third-party browsers being able to install proper APKs for web apps. This is generally something that only Chrome can do currently. There's very little public documentation and it still seems quite early, but there's a new WebAppManager API
[This is not an endorsement of Jeremy or Apple's opinion] The TAG invited Jeremy to talk about web installs at our F2F last week, as a rep for devs. It's the 1st time (in my time) that we've invited a dev to get their direct input into standards work & the consensus was that we should do it more!
Jeremy Keith@adactio.com · 3w agoJournal: Stalling installing Trying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22757
Importing and exporting passkeys and passwords is now available on Android. This resolves the security risks of legacy plaintext CSV exports and the inability to migrate passkeys across providers through secure, OS-level peer-to-peer data transfer.
On Friday I finally got down to Eastleach to see the Long-Tailed Shrike that had been resident this summer. Then on Saturday despite being very wet and windy, and low tide I managed to find the Baird's Sandpiper near Swansea. 20 lifers for the year. 3 for the week! #BirdingWales
This evening I learned (remembered) that Chromium and WebKit don't have a pseudo for the fill/progress part of a range input. Presumably they just decided to do that at paint time because reasons?
Disappointment Immeasurable
Alt: My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
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Nice lunch time surprise, a juvenile white-winged black tern showed up in Cardiff Bay. My 18th lifer of 2026! #BirdingWales
The Interop 2027 call for proposals is now open! Learn more about the process at github.com/web-platform..., or start a proposal via github.com/web-platform... today. You can also read about it in our news post at www.igalia.com/news/interop....
interop/2027/selection-process.md at main · web-platform-tests/interop
web-platform-tests Interop project. Contribute to web-platform-tests/interop development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Why is it not the law that if I click a link in your app it just opens in my damn browser. Never has an in-app browser done anything useful.
Show me who is making good or popular use of closed shadow roots, please? Like, not a thing on your website or a thing you've personally used once or twice, but something in broad use
We also seem to be the first framework to ship with moveBefore support github.com/preactjs/pre... which honestly has been great for preserving iframe state during moves, focus retention, ...
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Would you, today, choose to use <input type=image> for some reason? If so, why?
Some (juvenile?) red squirrels I encountered on a recent trip to Brownsea island. As often is the case we found them about 10 minutes before the last boat of the day.
Porffor alpha is out! It represents a new phase of the project where real-world dependencies are beginning to work and Node compatibility is the main bottleneck. To be clear, it still likely won't work with your app yet, but it is much closer than before. Recap here: honk.foo/porffor-alpha/
Porffor goes alpha August 11th
A self-hosting and rewritten Porffor launches in SF next month!
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5 minutes to explain why the web needs our proposal to enhance spell checking on the web... youtu.be/TfFIC4Ookxo?...
Enhanced Spell Checking on the Web
YouTube video by Igalia
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Why do companies (Google) insist on randomly discontinuing functionality from their software?? I've been using Google drive on my Mac to sync photos from an SD card to Google photos for years now. But nope not anymore now I have to use their sites much jankier capability instead.
Am I the only one who thinks, actually the alert system should be used for something more useful than "you're about to die lol"? Sure it's common sense that the country is dry and fire is bad, but people are still using BBQs and camping stoves and smoking cigarettes so it's clearly not so common. 🤷🏻♂️
BIG NEWS: Bocoup is now Igalia! The two worker co-ops have agreed to join forces, with several members of Bocoup coming aboard at Igalia, along with the brand assets and web site. More details in our official announcement: www.igalia.com/2026/Joining...
Osprey seen flying over near Wareham (by the river piddle). Can't read a ring or see if one exists, but the left wing's primaries look quite distinctive.
I somehow only just realised that if you hover a label it matches `:hover` on the associated form control... Is this common knowledge? I feel like it's probably one of those things that I actually already did know and have just forgotten.
Valerie Young talks about "Accessible Testing in WPT: From Dream to Reality" at the Web Engines Hackfest 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=coA0...
