Patrick Brosset

Read the full article at https://developer.chrome.com/blog/masonry-update

Read the full article at https://css-tricks.com/the-gap-strikes-back-now-stylable/

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/06/26/the-edge-2025-web-platform-top-developer-needs-dashboard/

Does your organization rely on MDN?

Read the full article at https://developer.chrome.com/blog/gap-decorations

Testing the align-* and justify-* CSS properties in a block layout.

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/05/05/creating-a-more-accessible-web-with-aria-notify/

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/04/22/contextual-logging-with-console-context/

A short talk at the W3C AC meeting in April 2025, to update the AC on the web-features project and Baseline.

The WebDX Community Group has done a lot of work in 2024 to increase the coverage of its web-features data.

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/03/19/minding-the-gaps-a-new-way-to-draw-separators-in-css/

Read the full article at https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/first-catalog-of-web-features-completed-by-the-webdx-community-group/

A cheatsheet of sorts, to help you navigate the intricacies of the web platform.

A sample page for the execCommand() method.

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/02/13/microsoft-edge-and-interop-2025/

A sample page for the Local Fonts API.

If you need to work with the system clipboard in your web app, either to read from or write to it, or both, then the Async Clipboard API is your friend.

Read the full article at https://developer.chrome.com/blog/better-text-rendering-in-chromium-based-browsers-on-windows

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/02/04/request-for-feedback-incoming-call-notifications-api/

Got nostalgic and wanted to see if the <frameset> element still worked in browsers.

Read the full article at https://www.24joursdeweb.fr/2024/evolution-rapide-et-lente-le-paradoxe-de-la-plateforme-web

Here are my quick highlights from the State of JS 2024 survey results.

Two and a half years ago, I wrote a short article titled 4 JavaScript Array methods you didn't know you needed, which describes how useful the Array.at, Array.flat, Array.some, Array.every methods are.

Reading large amounts of data in IndexedDB can be slow at times.

Sacha Greif's "State Of" surveys have become one of the most useful web development series of surveys.

Last week, I attended my very first Smashing Conference event, and it was great!

A quick overview of the benefits of on-device AI models, and how they can be used on the web today, and might become even easier to use in the future.

Testing support for the icon and tag properties of the Notifications API across browsers.

In this short video I introduce what Baseline is, and how it works thanks to the web-features project, maintained by the W3C WebDX Community Group.

Testing the object-view-box CSS property across browsers.

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2024/09/17/interop-2025-call-for-proposals/

tl;dr: the WebDX Community Group is working hard on cataloging the features of the web platform, and mapping them to their availability in browsers, which is making it possible to create a release note for the web platform.

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2024/07/11/seamless-svg-copy-paste-on-the-web/

AI, these days, is all about cloud services.

Here's my quick summary of the State of JS 2023 results.

CSS and device pixels On the web, a CSS pixel might be different than a device pixel.

Features of the web platform tend to move very slowly.

As someone who works on web browsers, I take web development survey results very seriously.

Problem statement The way I see it, our (web) industry has two problems when it comes to web developer feedback: Web developers have a hard time keeping track with the web platform and sharing feedback.

I've recently started to learn more about the Performance API that's available in web browsers, and wanted to share some of my learnings.

The browser-compat-data project contains some links to browser bugs for features that aren't implemented.

Having fun with web components with this simple custom element that can be used to render old-school-looking W3C badges at the bottom of web pages.

A page that illustrates the use of the CSS color-mix() function.

An experiment to see how far we can go with drawing inside a single div element by using multiple background gradient image components.

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2024/02/01/microsoft-edge-and-interop-2024/

A multi-track audio looper that uses the Web Audio API to let you create ephemeral soundscapes and short songs.

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2023/12/20/inside-the-all-new-edge-devtools-ui/

Read the full article at https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2023/12/14/navigate-the-unexpected-using-copilot-in-edge-and-devtools/

A simple puzzle game, which I made with CSS grid and CSS masking.

This week, I was working on a little demo page to learn more about CSS masking with SVG.