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I'm not sure this is a winnable game for programming languages. - Keep a small stdlib, like JavaScript (especially earlier JavaScript): everyone complains about missing features, w…

What type of project actually uses C++ 23 modules in real life? What kind of toolchain enables that? When I worked on Chromium, they were indefinitely in the "maybe in 5-10 years t…

Fascinating to see that Chromium/Gecko/WebKit are now more "open" browser engines than Ladybird, at least in one important respect. (Servo is arguably in the middle, accepting outs…

Fingerprinting concerns here are really overblown. At least in Chrome's implementation, the model version / responses will give you ~2 bits over the browser major version: whether …

I was formerly the design lead / spec editor for this API while I worked at Google. I retired in 2025-09, before it got shipped. The following contains no inside knowledge. I am sy…

(Former Chrome team member who worked on this API, now retired.) There was such a process! They shipped as first Dev Trial around 2025-04, then Origin Trial in 2025-05. Since then …

(I wrote those words originally.) Wow. I had no idea that people would misinterpret what I was saying in this way. I was not meaning to imply it was an expectation of users or deve…

Something similar happened with another API recently. https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1198#issueco...

(Former Chrome built-in AI team member here.) This is part of it, and also we just didn't want to use up the last of the user's disk space! It's disrespectful to use up 3 GB if the…

I no longer have any inside knowledge, but from my time on this team they were very quick about getting the latest small (Google) models into Chrome. I expect that if Gemma 4 (or i…

I can't speak for "you guys" anymore, as I'm retired, but from my personal perspective/recollection: The target usage for the prompt API is anything that would benefit from the gen…

I led the design effort on this API, before retiring. Here's my writeup on some of the considerations that went into it: https://domenic.me/builtin-ai-api-design/

As some others have indirectly pointed out, this article conflates two things: - URL parsing/normalization; and - Mapping URLs to resources (e.g. file paths or database entries) to…

We tried a few times. We got as far as gating the ability to push into the "real history stack" [1] behind a user activation (e.g. click). But, it's easy to get the user to click s…

Nice. I hope it eventually hits Japan.

This is covered in the article: > Turning them off will cause Windows to spasm for several seconds and throw all your current window positioning out of whack.

This is discussed in the article, including why I tried it and ended up reverting to normal P/Invoke.

They are both mentioned in the article. But I appreciate the extra experience and details, beyond what I got from browsing their landing pages and GitHub repos.

A lot of people complain about this, but there seemed to be a reasonable XAML designer when I was making my WinUI 3 app. I didn't really use it (my app was simple enough that hand-…

US and Canada residents only, sadly.

From what I understand, Win32/MFC/WinForms inherently are stuck around Vista visuals, with no dark mode support. Win32/MFC also have no high-DPI support, so you get gross upscaling…

Id be interested in a source for both this and the parent's comment. How do we know which settings pages use which tech? Have people been decompiling them?

I was actually part of a team at Barnes & Noble.com which tried to use WinJS for a serious application. (We were previously using Chromium Embedded Framework, or our own hand-rolle…

Judging from the screenshots, that doesn't produce Windows 11 style UIs, right? I.e. it contributes to the problem exploree at https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/state-of-th…