@ireneista @q @erincandescent @pinskia @lcamtuf oh, that's way more recent than the last time we were excited: the long painful drawn-out process of rolling out ES6 modules (which apparently "everybody else" gave up on, because bundlers)

@q @ireneista @erincandescent @pinskia @lcamtuf y'know, with how much advanced typography browsers actually do support....

we've seen an extremely stale and unimaginative set of UI/UX paradigms that take advantage of basically none of it

@ireneista @q @erincandescent @pinskia @lcamtuf hrm, we've seen the "engage with OSes" perspective quite a bit recently, but we're personally much closer to the attitude of "OSes have dragged their feet so much that everyone making applications decided they're just not going to play that game anymore (and hence finding better and better ways to bypass the OS)"

@q @ireneista @erincandescent @pinskia @lcamtuf we know *for sure* that browsers get involved in "emoji presentation" because we reported a bug in that area

Firefox also has a hack workaround to ignore "Segoe UI Emoji" for country flags, specifically to fix Mastodon (and some other sites of this nature which use a "OS font stack" philosophy)

@q @ireneista @erincandescent @pinskia @lcamtuf we were under the impression that browsers had additional "miscellaneous bullshit" such as font fallback selection and "OS-specific quirks" (we're not sure what if anything that actually refers to)