Hi, 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.
Perfecting Baseline
After two years, it's clear that awareness about Baseline is grown a lot. As one of the co-chair of the group that makes Baseline, I wanted to take a pause and reflect on how Baseline is starting to show up in developer's lives, but also how it can be perfected.
Unlock text editing use cases with highlightsFromPoint and other FromPoint APIs
Announcing the CSS.highlights.highlightsFromPoint() API, which lets you retrieve which custom highlights live at a given point in the viewport, and which unlocks powerful text editing use cases, such as tooltips, context menus, and more.
Test the clipboardchange event—a more efficient way to monitor the clipboard
The Edge web platform team is adding a new event to the Clipboard API: `clipboardchange`. This new event makes it much easier to react to changes in the system clipboard without having to read the content in a loop. This is more efficient and better for privacy. Interested? Test the event in Chromium-based browsers today, including via an origin trial, and let us know what you think.
Keyboard focusable scroller test
A simple web page to test keyboard focusable scroller in browsers, which is a feature that makes scrollable containers focusable with the keyboard by default, without requiring a tabindex attribute.
Quirks mode vs Standards mode
In the event that you're still interested in quirks mode, here is a demo page that illustrates some of the differences between quirks mode and standards mode rendering in browsers.
Masonry - The pretty grid you didn’t see coming (Smashing Conference, NYC)
A lightning talk to introduce the upcoming CSS Masonry layout implementation in Chromium browser, what it's really about, why it makes sense to use a built-in implementation, how to use it, but also how to keep track of new browser features like it.
Filling the Gap - Decorating Layouts with CSS (Smashing Conference, Freiburg)
In this lightning talk, I introduced the new CSS Gap Decorations proposal, a super simple yet powerful and customizable, way to draw separators between elements of a layout. CSS Gap Decorations give you the tools you need to convey your design vision, in a way that's easy to maintain, and adaptable.
