Firefox asks you to rank the web features you actually want
2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking
The Firefox team is running its second annual Interop 2027 proposal ranking. Last year's 1900+ rankings helped push proposals in the Interop process and prioritize feature work in Firefox. You only need to rank about 10 items you feel positively about; unranked items are ignored. Rankings autosave and can be tweaked until the process ends. Your GitHub identity is visible to select Firefox team members, but shared with the Interop team without that data.
Please only rank proposals you feel positively about. Anything you rank will be taken as a positive signal.
- culi
The most broken inconsistency across web browsers is printing, print preview, print-related CSS, etc. No print media related features made it onto this list :(
- prmph
A lot of these are CSS-related. Not sure why so much effort is still being devoted to piling kludges upon kludges on the train-wreck that is CSS.
CSS is one of the worst (web) technologies, breaking the very concept of composability, a core technique of complexity management. It also has all sorts of constructs trying to replicate the features of a proper programming language. Rampant use of CSS is an architectural smell.
And yet people will defend it to death. Every large project I have inherited has massive CSS files filled with hairy rules, utterly unmaintainable despite whatever people will tell you.
In my own projects now, large or small, I refuse to use CSS broadly. Except for a few global styles in a single small CSS file, I use inline styles for pretty much everything, combines with other code in a neatly composable components. This works very well.
Sorry for my strong opinions, but in my view the over-reliance on CSS and amount of work on it has held back the web from being what it really can be for rich apps. What we should be aiming for is to build in rich and very customizable components right into HTML with real-world sophistication. And allow websites to be installed as apps easily. These alone will do more for the web that all these CSS band-aids.
- esafak
I love the ranker. Good job, guys; you should open source it.