Apple’s WebKit team is inviting developers to submit their ideas for Interop 2027, the next edition of the cross-browser initiative aimed at improving web interoperability. Here are the details.
A bit of context
Over the past few years, Apple has collaborated with Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Bocoup, and Igalia on Interop, an annual effort to make modern web technologies work more consistently across different browsers.
The project began in 2022, building on the earlier Compat initiative, with participating browser makers and organizations identifying 15 key areas where interoperability issues were creating problems for web developers. While Compat was originally conceived as a one-off effort, it proved successful, and Interop has returned every year since.
Each year, the group selects a new set of focus areas, based in part on proposals from the web development community. Browser makers then work to improve their implementations in those areas, with progress measured through a shared set of Web Platform Tests.
