Hi, I'm Patrick, a product manager on the Edge web platform team at Microsoft. I'm responsible for developer relations, which means you'll typically find me publicly talking about the good work which our team is doing in Chromium and for the web.
Previously, I worked at Mozilla, on the Firefox DevTools team.
I'm part of the Open Web Docs governing committee and a co-chair of the W3C WebDX community group. I also run DevTools Tips.
I have 20+ years of working experience with the web and have worked as a designer, web developer, software engineer, browser engineer, engineering manager, and product manager.
New in Edge for developers – Style layout gaps, improve keyboard accessibility and migrate your PWA to a new origin
External link to blogs.windows.com/msedgedevWelcome to New in Edge for developers, a new series featuring recent web platform updates in Microsoft Edge that help web developers build better sites and apps, new experimental features, and highlights from the broader web ecosystem.
What's missing from SVG
I asked around and analyzed a few different sources of developer signals on the topic of SVG, and here are the recurring themes I found.
Browser engine-specific WPT failures
Web developers crave cross-browser compatibility, but browser engines don't always implement the same features, or not always to the same degree of quality. This page shows the number of tests (from the web-platform-tests project) which fail in just one browser engine. It also lists those tests. Fixing them would improve interoperability for web developers, and make the web a better place for everyone.
Alignment in CSS Grid Lanes
One part of CSS Grid Lanes I didn't talk about during my presentation at CSS Day is how alignment works. In this article, let's quickly go over how alignment will eventually work in CSS Grid Lanes.
Fun with CSS Grid Lanes (CSS Day, Amsterdam)
The early web was a playground. The tools were limited, but we made things anyway, and constraints fueled our creativity.
That spirit still matters, and that's how we push the web forwat.
CSS has grown into something really powerful, and one of the features I'm most excited about is CSS Grid Lanes, aka CSS masonry. In this talk, I go deep into how it works, how it differs from Grid, what it can do, how to use it in practice, and I go through many creative demos.
Play with Grid Lanes, help push the platform forward!
The slides require a recent version of Edge or Chrome with the #enable-experimental-web-platform-features flag enabled.
Slides, recording coming soon.
wf - The web-features CLI
A command-line tool for looking up web platform features. Search by keyword, check Baseline status, find MDN docs, specs, browser bugs, survey results, and more, from your terminal.
Repo, NPM.
History of the Web (BlinkOn 21)
I helped moderate a fun and engaging discussion panel about a slice of the history of the web at BlinkOn. For the first ever BlinkOn hosted by Microsoft, we wanted to focus on the times in-between IE and the Chromium-based Edge. Brian Kardell and I had the opportunity to welcome three guests who were at Microsoft during that time, and who had a lot of interesting stories from back then: Michael Champion, Greg Witworth, and Ade Bateman. We talked about the state of the web in the early 2000s, the challenges of that time, and the eventual switch to Chromium.
