{"id":4242,"date":"2026-10-16T00:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2026-10-16T00:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:40:30","slug":"matt-pushing-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/?p=4242","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WebKit has withdrawn their initial concerns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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}