We get a lot of flak at WordPress.org for supporting older PHP versions, but an area we’ve 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.

It’s 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 Document Isolation Policy. When WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” shipped these features only worked in Chromium-based browsers and Mozilla and Webkit/Apple weren’t keen to support it, but since then Mozilla has expressed support and WebKit has withdrawn their initial concerns. WordPresser Adam Silverstein has been driving much of this work and opened a WICG issue to help move the standard forward and formally requested that WebKit add support.

Hat tip: Anne McCarthy for helping with this post.

(If you want to see other crazy stuff we’re doing in browsers, check out WordPress Playground, I think it’s actually the perfect web development environment for agents, which can then publish to Spacefast.)