Javier Fernández
I have been working at Igalia since January 2003, and people usually call me JaviF (Javi Fisterra) or jfernandez.
My love for the Free Software movement began thanks to the GNOME project. After many years of working on the desktop stack, I am now part of the Web Platform Team at Igalia, where I have the opportunity to learn about different Open Source web engines.
I love sports, especially roller hockey, where I’m still a semiprofessional player, despite my age. Since a well-trained body is nothing without a well-trained mind, I like reading as much as possible and playing strategy games, especially chess.
POSTS
Improving CSS Custom Properties performance
Chrome 84 reached the stable channel a few weeks ago, and there are already several great posts describing the many important additions, interesting n
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A new terminal-style line breaking with CSS Text
The CSS Text 3 specification defines a module for text manipulation and covers, among a few other features, the line breaking behavior of the browser,
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CSS Grid on LayoutNG: a Web Engines Hackfest story
I had the pleasure to attend the Web Engines Hackfest last week, hosted and organized by Igalia in its HQ in A Coruña. I’m really proud of what we are...
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Can I use CSS Box Alignment ?
As a member of the Igalia’s team implementing the CSS Grid Layout feature for Blink and WebKit rendering engines, I’m very proud of what we’ve achieve
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Web Engines Hackfest 2016
Last week I attended the Web Engines Hackfest 2016, hosted by Igalia at the HQ premises in A Coruña. For those still unaware, it’s a unconference like
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Performance analysis of Grid Layout
Now that we have a quite complete implementation of CSS Grid Layout specification it’s time to take care of performance analysis and optimizations. In
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Distributing tracks along Grid Layout container
In my last post I introduced the concept of Content Distribution alignment and how it affects Grid Layout implementation. At that time, it was possibl
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Content Distribution in CSS Grid Layout
It’s been a while since Igalia and Bloomberg started to implement the Box Alignment specification for the CSS Grid Layout model. Some weeks ago we acc
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Box Alignment and Grid Layout (II)
Some time has passed since my first post about the Box Alignment spec implementation status for Blink and WebKit web engines. I’ll do an update in thi
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