Interop makes my day joyful

sylvain.bougerel@gmail.com (Sylvain Bougerel) — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:06:00 +0800

Check out Interop 2026. It has been one of the driving force behind aligning browser’s compatibility across the market and towards the standards.

I used to hate UI development, and by far I hated web development the most. The incompatibility across browsers has been a plague on web development. I think my feelings are widely echoed across the community, as something you would just have to put up with. I generally stayed away from doing any web development.

For me, things started to really turn around circa 2017. When I joined Grab around that time and discovered caniuse.com or React 16, web development started to feel less like a pile of hacks. Structure and organized community efforts started to emerge.

The launch of the web-platform-tests has undoubtedly been a major step forward. Thanks to this project and others, browser compatibility is generally not a concern in my daily web development routine. I can safely say there’s real joy to web development nowadays, and LLMs have made it easier than ever to get into.

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Interop makes my day joyful