I'm Patrick, a product manager on the Edge team at Microsoft. I do developer relations, and work on a wide range of web platform technologies and tools. 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.
To get in touch, use the links to my social networks at the bottom of this page, or email me: patrickbrosset at gmail dot com.
The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable
Four years go, I wrote about the gap property and a workaround to style it. Today, I'm back to show you how we'll soon have a few simple CSS properties that make it easy, yet also flexible without any fuss.
The Edge 2025 web platform top developer needs dashboard
We, the Edge team, have just published our new 2025 top developer needs dashboard, tracking what we've heard web developers care most about and which the Interop project can't commit to it all.
How to convince your boss to sponsor Open Web Docs
Does your organization rely on MDN Web Docs? Do you check compatibility tables on MDN or caniuse.com? Do you use browser DevTools, or VSCode? If so, you rely on the work that Open Web Docs does very directly. Open Web Docs is a non-profit organization that ensures the long-term health of web platform documentation, and it needs your support to continue doing this work. Here is how to convince your boss to sponsor OWD!
CSS alignment in block layouts
Testing the align-* and justify-* CSS properties in a block layout. View the source code of that page to learn more.
Navigating the web platform
A cheatsheet of sorts, to help you navigate the intricacies of the web platform. How to keep track of what's new? How to influence what's coming next?
web-features and Baseline (AC 2025)
A short talk at the W3C AC meeting in April 2025, to update the AC on the web-features project and Baseline. Video, slides.
web-features and Baseline - We're feature complete! What's next? (W3C Breakouts Day)
The WebDX Community Group has done a lot of work in 2024 to increase the coverage of its web-features data. Now that the data roughly covers the entire web platform feature set, let's review the work done so far, the use cases that web-features, and Baseline, have unlocked, and let's open it up for discussion on the next important questions to tackle.
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