Assuming you are not a major whatwg contributor: Did you know that clicking File > print and calling `print()` do very different things?
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Assuming you are not a major whatwg contributor: Did you know that clicking File > print and calling `print()` do very different things?
Sure do. Pretty sure that’s where the photo of you and Mols I put on meyerweb.com/eric/thought... came from (except I thought it was a regular fire alarm, not a bomb scare; I guess memories stay, though details fade).
I had ¾ of a pint of Wildberry Crumble ice cream from a local creamery that I was going to eat half of and put away the rest for later. Ate it all instead. Been that kind of week.
I've seen lots of posts about how to turn off auto play for video and I just want to take a moment to brag that no one I follow posted a snuff film today. Good job, y'all. 💜
Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound
Folks, as someone who watched an enormous amount of graphic footage in my time as a journalist and developed PTSD because of it, please do not watch the Charlie Kirk footage. Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.
My understanding is that it’s not likely UNLESS it was registered with the US copyright office. I don’t know if being published in a journal counts. If the paper has an ISBN, I think the odds are better. BUT! Tell her to submit anyway, since it doesn’t hurt to do so and you never know your luck.
The first episode of “South Park” aired closer to the Apollo 11 Moon landing than to today.
One day all this will be done and we all can get to see it all
I imagine there is some disagreement on the scope of what needs to be done, but yes.
Second Amendment absolutists, your time has come! The tyrannical government you told us you armed to resist is here, and promising war on one of its largest cities. To arms, to arms; stand in defense of your countrymen!
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
#Interop2026 has opened for proposals! This annual cross-vendor project to increase browser compatibility will take your suggestions through September 24. Learn more and speak up: www.igalia.com/2025/09/04/C...
Just submitted my contact and books’ info to www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com because apparently I’m in their training corpus… a LOT. Not as much as my namesake who churns out military potboilers, but still, enough that it will be quite the windfall if my books qualify. Will they? We’ll see!
It’s that time of year again: #interop2026 is now open for proposals from one and all! The window closes on the 24th of this month, so if there’s something you want to get in front of browser vendors to consider making more interoperable, now’s the time. More here: www.igalia.com/2025/09/04/C...
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Cannot WAIT to hear @angryblacklady.bsky.social and @hegemommy.bsky.social react to this KBJ callout.
This is definitely one of those fights where I hope there’s a way for both sides to lose. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/m...
Right?!?
It’s either that or “the AI can never fail, it can only be failed” and either way, genuine LOL.
I had a lot of fun researching and writing this and even more fun picking the memes for the thread but I also want to thank multiple people who talked to me about how they use XSLT today and why they value it so much; there's a huge tension in the web platform about scale and usage getting funding
“Bless your heart” would be particularly devastating coming from him.
Oh! That makes more sense. Thank you!
Is Karen’s name misspelled in the first line of the back cover copy, or did compression artifacts mangle it into looking like “Memery”?
“take at 100 miles an hour” should be “talk at 100 miles an hour”.
Oh, it's September already. Time for the HTMHell Advent calendar Call for Papers! 🖤 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I’m as old as Forth and Pascal. My first programming language was BASIC, written on a PDP-11 (I think) and then various kinds of TRS-80.
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
I've ended up writing a very long piece about XSLT and whether browsers should keep the code they use to transform XML documents into new forms because what was meant to be a technical debate about security, resource priorities and backward compatibility touched such a nerve it needs MEMES 🧵
It took me forever to work out this wasn’t a “The Fountainhead” riff, and that’s the most I’ve thought about “The Fountainhead” in a few decades and frankly I’m not happy to have broken the streak.
Nothing occurred to me at the time, but today I was reminded of mine: diphenhydramine (Benadryl) works great for me and has no side effects, either sleepy or wired. (Yes, I know about the risks and that better things are available now. This isn’t medical advice, it’s a personal oddity.)
The web connects us so deeply, we hardly notice. Now, with 1 trillion pages archived, the Wayback Machine helps us understand how online & offline blur—shrinking distance and creating friendships, love, & community. 📝 Share how the web connects you ➡️ forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe... #Wayback1T
Radio silence about WHAT, Carl? WHAT?!?
WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING, CYD I AM SO LOST AND CONFUSED
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In the wake of a Mastodon poll I ran on anchor positioning fallback behavior, I’ve opened an issue with the #CSS Working Group to discuss both the default behavior and the possibility of letting authors choose which behavior they prefer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr.... Feel free to chime in!
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
I was all set to post a one-day #CSS poll when I realized they don’t have polls here. Oh well.
Four out of five dental surgeons recommend taking up hockey.
Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title: Tom Clancy’s The Eye of Argon
“With these levels of mitochondria, there’s no way these kids will ever be Jedi, unlike in my day”, he went on to say.
Wow
If it weren’t for my clinical depression, I guess I would’ve temporarily become a former smoker.
DC grand juries are refusing to indict. Grand juries in LA also refused to indict.
Another milestone unlocked for Servo: inline SVG support has now landed 🎉 github.com/servo/servo/...
Hi!!! Is there anyone living near Bellevue WA who's planning on coming to my event in Lake Forest Park tomorrow? I know someone who needs a ride to the store.
Pedophile club gotta stick together.
I mean youtu.be/tEq1fc9r7KE?...
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
You do you, but: One of the things we discovered in the early days of Bluesky is that quote-dunking drives toxicity. It’s like being at a cocktail party and when someone says something you don’t like, shouting to the entire room: “HEY LISTEN TO WHAT THIS ASSHOLE JUST SAID!” So maybe don’t?
⌨️ Comin’ in hot on a Friday afternoon with a Web Discourse blog post! XSLT, Google, and… flame wars? meyerweb.com/eric/thought...
It seems fitting that Trump destroyed two highly competent digital/service design teams and now plans to Airbnb-ify government services.
Randomness in CSS!! Please try it out and give us some feedback: webkit.org/blog/17285/r... :)
Does anybody really know what time this is?
🎙 New Episode of Igalia Chats: RIP XSLT? Igalia's @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with Liam Quin about a recent issue in WHATWG regarding the removal of XSLT www.igalia.com/chats/xslt-l...
Aw man, I did and was going to mention it but forgot! It’s still zero.
🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...
⌨️ New blog post: more shenanigans with #CSS infinity calculations, which not only uncovered more browser inconsistencies but also led to me spending time on Wikipedia’s “Timeline of the far future” page. meyerweb.com/eric/thought...
As usual, King Donald’s feelings don’t care about the facts.
😭
Need help with web performance optimization? Have a tricky new build you're working on? I have two projects wrapping up and am available for new ones starting next week. sia.codes/services/
Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
not changing our name to NOW RSD.
Still funny!
And absolutely the dream of the rural stretches beyond the exurbs. Source: I grew up in rural Ohio.
I wonder what Subway sales will look like for the rest of the month.
From one groundhog to another: AAAAAAAAAAAAA
Wait, maybe THAT’S the one I wanted to warn her about. Eh, just avoid both.
I came here to warn Molly away from “Deception Point” specifically.
What GIF pops up when you type your name?
If you're making websites or web apps and want to use masonry in the future, now's the time to give your opinion on how the API should work. What do you want your masonry CSS to look like?
If you know me at all - here, elsewhere, or irl - you know how important I believe it is to understand history. That it’s being perverted in this way and for this reason is obscene.
Looking at the state of CSS from this year and pleased to see that in "game changer feature" almost half of people voted for the top two things: Grid and :has - both things @igalia.com helped make happen 👏 2025.stateofcss.com/en-US/usage/...
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Mellow out, or you will pay!
Harkens back to the Victorian “Madonna/whore” duality for women in general, yeah? (I say “Victorian” because of the literary roots, not because I think we’ve moved beyond it as a culture/species. Would that it were so!)
So you’re saying that adding even more people to a people problem has compounding effects? Huh.
Sooooo.… pollen cakes?
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
There are many games I would play if remastered, but not one were the gameplay changed. The gameplay is what made them games I would play again.
We have similar numbers on our street and a couple of years back (the collective) we finally got the city to agree to close the street during trick-or-treat hours, after years of denial. SO much better for everyone, kids most of all.
By the year’s end, it is likely that fatalities totaled around 70,000. Terrain was a primary factor in the casualties being lower than in Hiroshima, with the immediate effects mainly confined to the Urumaki Valley.
Eighty years ago, at 11:02am on August 9, 1945, the second and so far last nuclear attack in history struck Nagasaki, Japan. In a few seconds, between 20,000 and 30,000 people died, with an unknown number of people injured; some estimates place it at around 25,000.
If only they allowed edit on here so you could attach a donotreply.cards as needed.
I’m so sorry, Dan. 💔
I had a great time on Igalia Chats speaking with @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com about the past, present, and future of W3C. Thanks to @igalia.com for having me on!
I am now having a moment of revelation about a number of alien designs I’ve seen over the years…
No Way To Prevent This, Says Only Nation Actively Making The Situation Worse On Purpose
How is it halfway through the Year of Our Horde 2025 and there’s STILL no dedicated fist-bump emoji? I keep having to fake it with a 🤜🤛 two-step and frankly this is not the future I was promised.
🎙️New Igalia Chats: a conversation with Seth Dobbs, the CEO of the W3C. @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com spent an hour talking with @sethdobbs.bsky.social about what the CEO of a standards body does, the W3C’s new vision statement, the future of the W3C, and much more! www.igalia.com/chats/w3c-se...
Zoom and DPI affects the blink maximum. A lot of this is when conversion from/to float/double/fixed-precision occurs.
Those are very good questions that I could possibly tackle in a followup!
New meyerweb post! I crawled down a #CSS hole to find where it ended. The results were as mind-bending as I could’ve hoped, even though I was sort of hoping they wouldn’t be. Come see what happens to browser engines when you literally push them to infinite lengths! meyerweb.com/eric/thought...
Eighty years ago, at 8:15am on August 6, 1945, the first nuclear attack in history destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. In a few seconds, between 80,000 and 140,000 people died, with another 100,000 or so injured.
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
THERE WAS NOTHING IN THAT BROWNIE THIS EDIBLE IS BULLSHIT - oNe hOUr laTer-
