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Accessible name computation in Chromium chapter III: name from hidden subtrees
Back in March of 2021, as part of my maintenance work on Chrome/Chromium accessibility at Igalia, I inadvertently started a long, deep dive into the accessible name calculation code, that...
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parallel ephemeron tracing
Hello all, and happy new year. Today's note continues the series on implementing ephemerons in a garbage collector.In our last dispatch we looked at a serial algorithm to trace ephemerons....
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three approaches to heap sizing
How much memory should a program get? Tonight, a quick note on sizing for garbage-collected heaps. There are a few possible answers, depending on what your goals are for the...
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Tips for using Vim when developing Chromium
There are lots of powerful IDEs which are broadly used by developers. Vim is a text editor, but it can be turned into a good IDE with awesome plugins and...
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MathML in Chrome 109
2023/06/15: Most of this article was written in January 2023, but I only finished and published it in June. Hopefully, information is still up-to-date 😃 TL;DR Igalia announced early this...
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2022 Graphics Team Contributions at Igalia
This year I started a new job working with Igalia’s Graphics Team. For those of you who don’t know Igalia they are a worker-owned employee-run cooperative model consultancy focused on...
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Superb Howl
Superb Howl We are rapidly approaching Sunday, Feburary 12th, or in America "Super Bowl Sunday". There's something interesting about the Super Bowl that I wish we could emulate there for...
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whippet: towards a new local maximum
Friends, you might have noted, but over the last year or so I really caught the GC bug. Today's post sums up that year, in the form of a talk...
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CSS Wish List 2023
Dave asked people to share their CSS wish lists for 2023, and even though it’s well into the second month of the year, I’m going to sprint wild-eyed out of...
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A Few Good Lies
A Few Good Lies On Wolvic’s new UA string in 1.3, things working, and frustrating intertwined problems. Ok, let’s play a game… Imagine that you look at your server logs...
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X.Org Developers Conference 2023 in A Coruña, Spain
Some weeks ago, Igalia announced publicly that we will host X.Org Developers Conference 2023 (XDC 2023) in A Coruña, Spain. If you remember, we also organized XDC 2018 in this...
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Global Game Jam 2023 - GI Jam
At the beginning of this month I participated in the Games Institutes’s Global Game Jam event. The Games Institute is an organization at my local university (The University of Waterloo)...
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