{"id":6996,"date":"2026-10-16T00:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/?p=6996"},"modified":"2026-10-16T00:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:40:30","slug":"matt-pushing-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/?p=6996","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Pushing Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We get a lot of flak at <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress.org<\/a> for supporting older PHP versions, but an area we\u2019ve always pushed the frontier is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webstandards.org\/\">Web Standards<\/a>, getting websites and browsers evolving together to make the web richer. Ever since I caught the religion from <a href=\"https:\/\/zeldman.com\/\">Zeldman<\/a>, promoting more functionality in the browser has been a life mission. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a little nerdy, but we wanted to do client-side media processing (use all that amazing Apple and Google silicon instead of burdening the poor servers) so we used something amazing Google created called <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.chrome.com\/blog\/document-isolation-policy\">Document Isolation Policy<\/a>. When <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2026\/08\/mary-lou\/\">WordPress 7.1 \u201cMary Lou\u201d shipped<\/a> these features only worked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chromium.org\/Home\/\">Chromium<\/a>-based browsers and Mozilla and Webkit\/Apple weren\u2019t keen to support it, but since then <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/standards-positions\/issues\/1074\">Mozilla has expressed support<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WebKit\/standards-positions\/issues\/399#issuecomment-5844114111\">WebKit has withdrawn their initial concerns<\/a>. WordPresser <a href=\"https:\/\/earthbound.com\/\">Adam Silverstein<\/a> has been driving much of this work and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WICG\/document-isolation-policy\/issues\/8\">opened a WICG issue<\/a> to help move the standard forward and <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.webkit.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=325516\">formally requested that WebKit add support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/nomad.blog\/\">Anne McCarthy<\/a> for helping with this post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(If you want to see other crazy stuff we\u2019re doing in browsers, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/playground\/\">WordPress Playground<\/a>, I think it\u2019s actually the perfect web development environment for agents, which can then publish to <a href=\"https:\/\/spacefast.com\/\">Spacefast<\/a>.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get a lot of flak at WordPress.org for supporting older PHP versions, but an area we\u2019ve always pushed the frontier is in Web Standards, getting websites and browsers evolving together to make the web richer. Ever since I caught the religion from Zeldman, promoting more functionality in the browser has been a life mission. 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