Manuel Rego

@regocas
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Web Engines Hacker (Chromium & WebKit reviewer, Servo TSC Chair) - CSSWG member - Free Software/Open Source Developer - Igalia partner - he/him
Bloghttps://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/

RE: https://floss.social/@servo/116300398846704250

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: https://bkardell.com/blog/1_3M-WPTMilestone.html

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.

https://blogs.igalia.com/dape/2026/03/26/the-implementation-of-container-timing-aggregating-paints-in-blink/

Instead of reinventing the wheel, we reuse existing Paint detection and "bubble up" events to a container root, efficiently aggregating them.

Read more about the architecture and how to test it today! ✍

cc @igalia @developers

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?

José Dapena blog

🦫 alert!

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

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

Since we're on Mastodon, please help us figure out what we can do to add native ActivityPub support!

#atproto #ATProtocol #useragent #activitypub

We have more than 80 people registered to participate onsite in the Web Engines Hackfest 2026: https://webengineshackfest.org/#attendees
If you want to join us, please fill the form at: https://forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7sX6Px6
2024 Web Engines Hackfest

Web Platform community event for people working on the different engines (Chromium/Blink/V8, Safari/WebKit/JSC, Firefox/Gecko/SpiderMonkey, Servo), on the testing side (WPT, Test262), or on specifications (W3C, WhatWG, TC39).

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

https://opencollective.com/servo/updates/servo-collective-2025-in-review

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, paying for...

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. 🙏

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

https://www.bassi.io/articles/2026/03/17/lets-talk-about-moonforge/

#igalia #moonforge #yocto #openembedded

halting problem

In which I talk a bit about what I’ve been doing at Igalia in 2025

halting problem

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

https://blogs.igalia.com/svillar/post/wpe-webxr/

/ @WPEWebKit @webkit

🦫 alert!

We published the first episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks", featuring @servo and @n0iroh to create distributed Web apps!

Learn more how we expand the Web from tabs to windows to devices at https://webbeef.org/tricks.html

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.

https://www.igalia.com/2026/03/13/Temporal-Reaches-Stage-4.html

Temporal Reaches Stage 4 | Igalia

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