Call For Papers: Talks - Web Engines Hackfest 2026 Talks can cover any topic related to the web platform. They are expected to be approximately 20 minutes long and will be followed by a brief moderator-curated Q&A. Both onsite and remote presentations...

CFP for talks at the Web Engine Hackfest 2026 closes in a couple of weeks. If you are willing to give one please fill the form at forms.gle/pNz4FqxziBTs...

SPDY stream. Image of a very colourful Porsche racing car. Avatar of two persons with their names below one has a Spanish flag the other a Canadian flag. Performance people projects. Wednesday, April 15. 1 PM Eastern daylight time.

✨ SPDY STREAM 030 ✨ The web grows in complexity, so our tools for measuring it must evolve. We’re joined by @igalia.com's José Dapena Paz to explore the new Container Timing API. We’ll dive into this API is + it’s raison d'être.
📆 Wed April 15th
⏰ 1pm EDT
🔗 YT: www.youtube.com/live/b4eMT6o...

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀
This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version
servo.org/blog/2026/04...

We're happy to announce that Simon Wülker (@simonwuelker.bsky.social) is a new member of the Servo Technical Steering Committee

2026 Web Engines Hackfest Yearly web platform community event for people working on the different engines, testing, specifications, web compat, documentation.

Look, the Web Engines Hackfest is now a W3C-endorsed conference: www.w3.org/events/confe...
Some working groups might arrange meetings at the hackfest. Thanks to W3C for your support and collaboration.

Servo 0.0.6 showing ‘transform-style: preserve-3d’, ‘vertical-align’ shorthand with ‘baseline-shift’, objects being previewed in DevTools when passed to console.log(), pausing script execution in DevTools, and opening a modal `<dialog>` with `<button command>`

February in Servo…

⏯️📜 pause and resume in DevTools
🤏🖱️ Pointer Events API
🧲🪟 <button command>
🔰🎨 ‘@property’ and ‘:modal’
📦🌐 better JS modules support

servo.org/blog/2026/03...

We know this is not a very useful metric, but it's always nice to see progress there. Especially knowing where we come from, 1.3M in June 2024: bkardell.com/blog/1_3M-WP...

The implementation of Container Timing: aggregating paints in Blink Deep dive on the implementation details of the Container Timing API for Chromium. How we track the paints? How we buffer the data for each component?

How do you measure rendering performance for entire DOM subtrees without slowing down the browser? ⏱️

✍ In my new blog post, I dive into the technical details of how I implemented the new Container Timing #webperf API in #Blink / #Chromium.

blogs.igalia.com/dape/2026/03...

top level load of some at:// uri

login to atproto in beaver settings

atproto explorer offering to create a new bsky post

context menu with the new atproto authorization item

🦫 alert!

We published the second episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks", featuring
native support for @atproto.com ! Learn more how we improve user agency and privacy at webbeef.org/atproto.html :

- Native at:// protocol support.
- Log in your PDS and forget OAuth !
- Authorize 3rd parties

We have more than 80 people registered to participate onsite in the Web Engines Hackfest 2026: webengineshackfest.org#attendees
If you want to join us, please fill the form at: forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7s...

Blog post about a new Chromium feature I've been working on to allow Web Extensions register protocol handlers just declaring them in the Manifest.

blogs.igalia.com/jfernandez/2...

This must've been one of the most challenging things I've worked on in a while. Thanks Bloomberg for sponsoring my work on this, and everyone who helped shipping a fix in time!

Embloggeration happened: in which I talk a bit about what I've been doing at Igalia in 2025

www.bassi.io/articles/202...

#igalia #moonforge #yocto #openembedded

Servo Collective: 2025 in review - Servo 2025 was the second year of the Servo Collective, and in that year we raised 59,430.02 USD (+62.5% over 2024). Your donations have helped the Servo project grow with its community in a variety of ways...

Thanks to the Servo community, we raised 59430 USD last year! We spent nearly half of that amount on…

👩‍🔧🎓 one Outreachy internship
📦🤖 five dedicated CI servers
👨‍🏫🧑‍🎓 89 hours of review work

opencollective.com/servo/update...

Arm logo

We're glad to announce that Arm is sponsoring one more year the Web Engines Hackfest 2026, this time as sliver and coffee & snacks sponsors! 🎉
Big thanks for the continuous support. 🙏

Implementing WebXR in WebKit for WPE 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 a...

WebXR on WPE WebKit is here! Igalia’s Sergio Villar breaks down the architecture, OpenXR backend, hand input, AR modes, and the road ahead.

blogs.igalia.com/svillar/post...

Big news! Igalia (@igalia.com) is partnering with @eurosky.social to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More: www.eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Ig...

🦫 alert!

We published the first episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks", featuring @servo.org and @iroh.computer to create distributed Web apps! Learn more how we expand the Web from tabs to windows to devices at webbeef.org/tricks.html

Temporal Reaches Stage 4 | Igalia Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...

The Temporal proposal, co-championed by Igalia, advances to Stage 4 at TC39 — replacing JavaScript's Date API after nine years of work. Congratulations to everyone involved! Here's to better date-time handling on the web and beyond.

www.igalia.com/2026/03/13/T...

Huawei logo

We are happy to announce Huawei as silver sponsor of the Web Engines Hackfest 2026! 🎉
Thank you very much for your ongoing support 🙏

We would like to congratulate @lukewarlow.dev on being appointed by the W3C TAG as an Associate!

The Associate program (tag.w3.org/associates/) was launched a little over a year ago with the goal of helping to extend the TAG's ability to review and influence work.

Introducing Moonforge: A Yocto-Based Linux OS | Igalia Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...

🚀 We've released Moonforge, a brand new fully open-source Linux distribution based on Yocto. We aim to provide a production-ready foundation for building embedded operating systems! Read more: www.igalia.com/2026/03/09/I...

Our booth at Embedded World, Hall 4. White booth walls with "igalia is open source" branding in colorful text and "web, standards, for everyone" labels. Left wall has a monitor and the Moonforge demo station with hardware diagrams. Back walls display logos of open-source projects Igalia contributes to, including Servo, Vulkan, Chromium, WebKit, RISC-V, GStreamer, Wayland, and more. White meeting table with chairs in the foreground.

Tomorrow at Embedded World! Hall 4, Booth 4-443.

Demoing Moonforge — live OTA updates on RPi5 via RAUC — plus a Zephyr BLE app built entirely on upstream code, and WPE WebKit on embedded hardware.

Talks: Tue 14:45 Yocto best practices, Thu 15:00 web engines for embedded.

#EmbeddedWorld #ew26

Web Engines Hackfest 2026 - Data Please complete this short form to confirm your onsite participation in the Web Engines Hackfest 2026 (15-17 June in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain). Remember that you don't need to fill out this form to pa...

A little over 3 months to go until Web Engines Hackfest 2026, happening June 15–17 in A Coruña!
If you plan to attend onsite, please register here: forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7s...
We already have more than 50 people registered: webengineshackfest.org#attendees

screenshot of the one-pager version of the servo readiness report

How do we get to more than just three web engines owned by three US companies?

It's a gargantuan question, with no easy or right answer.

I've put together a draft report, thinking about it through a very specific approach - please enjoy:

Servo Readiness Report

webtransitions.org/servo-readin...

Decorative report cover with the Servo logo that reads "Servo Report Week 09 2026"

Highlights from last week:
- DevTools: Breakpoints support
- Initial `command` and `commandfor` attribute support
- Expose the `tabIndex` property on `HTMLOrSVGElement`
- Progress on LargestContentfulPaint implementation
- Incremental fragment tree layout

Servo 0.0.5 showing improved appearance of buttons, text inputs, radio buttons, and checkboxes, plus new support for ‘::details-content’ and ‘:open’ selectors

January in Servo…

🔮🗜️ <link rel=preload>
🎨📂 ‘::details-content’ and ‘:open’
💖📝 revamped form inputs
📜📦 new features for JS modules
🪆🌐 HTTPS proxy support

servo.org/blog/2026/02...

Open Source Product Marketing Manager | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development We’re looking for someone to help spread the word about our Open Source projects to the whole world.

My company @igalia.com is hiring an Open Source Product Marketing Manager. www.igalia.com/jobs/product...

Igalia is a worker-owned cooperative based in A Coruña, Spain. All positions are 100% remote. Igalia can potentially sponsor visas to emigrate to Spain.

We cut @nodejs memory in half with a one-line Docker image swap.

No code changes. No new APIs. Just smaller heaps.

Here's what happened when we tested pointer compression on real workloads 🧵