Since 2022, my main focus has been working on the Wolvic browser, still the only open source WebXR-capable browser for Android/AOSP devices (Meta, Pico, Huawei, Lenovo, Lynx, HTC…) out there. That’s an effort that continues to this day (although to a much lesser extent nowadays). In early 2025, as a consequence of all that work in XR on the web, an opportunity emerged to implement WebXR support in WebKit for the WPE port, and we decided to take it. ...
We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with you. Wolvic is about to transform how you interact with the web in a VR environment with the introduction of eye tracking support! Starting with the just released v1.7.0 release on the Gecko backend and the highly anticipated v1.0 release on the Chromium backend, you’ll be able to control the browser pointer just by looking at what you want to interact with. While this feature is still being refined, it’s a fantastic start, and we can’t wait for you to try it out. ...
In my previous post I discussed my most recent contributions to flexbox code in WebKit mainly targeted at reducing the number of interoperability issues among the most popular browsers. The ultimate goal was of course to make the life of web developers easier. It got quite some attention (I loved Alan Stearns’ description of the post) so I decided to write another one, this time focused in the changes I recently landed in WebKit (Safari’s engine) to improve the handling of elements with aspect ratio inside flexbox, a.k.a make images work inside flexbox. Some of them have been already released in the Safari 118 Tech Preview so it’s now possible to help test them and provide early feedback. ...
Flexbox had a lot of early problems, but by mid-May 2020 where our story begins, both Firefox and Chromium had done a lot of work on improving things with this feature. WebKit, however, hadn’t caught up. Prioritizing the incredible amounts of work a web engine requires is difficult. The WebKit implementation was still passable for very many (most) cases of the core features, and it didn’t have problems that caused crashes or something that urgently demanded attention, so engineers dedicated their limited time toward other things. The net result, however, was that as this choice repeated many times, the comparative state of WebKit’s flexbox implementation had fallen behind pretty significantly. ...
My Igalia colleagues and me have extensively reviewed how to create grids and how to position items inside the grid using different CSS properties. So far everything was more or less static. We declare the sizes of our columns/rows or define a set of grid areas and that’s it. Well, actually there is room for automatic stuff, you can dynamically create new tracks just by adding items to positions outside the explicit grid. Furthermore the grid is able to auto-position items for you if you don’t really care much about the final destination. ...
Last week I attended BlinkOn3 held at Google’s Mountain View office. Not only that but I also had the pleasure of giving a speech about what has been taking most of my time lately, the CSS Grid Layout implementation. Although there were several talks already scheduled for some weeks, the conference itself is very dynamic in the sense that new talks were added as people started to propose new topics to discuss. ...
Today I’m giving a speech at BlinkOn3, the Blink contributors’ conference held in Google’s Mountain View Office. Check the agenda for further details. The plan is to give an overview about the feature, present the most recent additions/improvements and also talk about the roadmap. My session is scheduled for 3:30PM at the Artic Ocean room. See you there! UPDATE: we had many issues trying to setup the hangout so in the end we decided to move the session to Wednesday morning. It’s currently scheduled for 1:15PM just after lunch.
Hi dear readers, it’s awesome to see people-really-excited (including our friends at Bloomberg) about CSS Grid Layout, specially after Rachel Andrew’s talk in CSSConf. I really believe CSS Grid Layout will be a revolution for web designers as it will help them to build amazing responsive web sites without having to add hacks all around. ...
Hi there, fellow readers. Today I’m starting a mini-series of posts to talk a little bit about the work I’ve been lately doing at Igalia around WebKit and Blink web engines. I’ve been involved in the implementation of a new standard called CSS Grid Layout in both engines. My mate rego has already talked about that, so take a look at his post if you need to know more about the basics. Read it? Great, let’s move on. ...
For a while now Igalia and Bloomberg have been collaborating to advance Web technologies. As part of that, I’ve been lately involved on improving some editing capabilities of WebKit (posts to follow soon). As you probably know, in HTML5 any element can be editable. The feature was introduced some time ago, but was finally standardized by the WHATWG. It’s as easy as adding the attribute contenteditable=true and voilà, the magic unfolds (check it out!!!). ...