standards-positions
interop
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standards-positions
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iOS404
You can check why Mozilla and Apple have opted to not support this.
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154
https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/28
Neither Mozilla or Webkit are satisfied that the proposal is safe by default, and contains footguns for the user that can be pretty destructive.
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Show HN: Tiniest Web Component
Nope, was marked as WONTFIX: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182671
There was some more discussion in the webkit standards but looks like the answer is still unchanged: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/97
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The web just gets better with Interop 2024
The new scrollbar styling properties are actually pretty consistent with native platforms. There's not that much flexibility with them - e.g. you can't define width in pixels, you just chose between thick, thin, or none, which match the existing native controls:
https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/133#iss...
> To add more information to this issue. This property supports three values, auto, thin and none. These match nicely to WebKit's ScrollbarControlSize::Regular and ScrollbarControlSize::Thin and not rendering the scrollbar.
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Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair
Apple puts their policy positions on GitHub too. It's just where this is done for some reason: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions
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Quic.video
Not yet but one day: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/18#issu...
- WebKit Web Environment Integrity API
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Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
Worth also noting is WebKit's standards positions at
https://webkit.org/standards-positions/
(this one has not landed yet, likely to be opposed as well)
- WebKit Standards Positions
- WebKit is going to support WebTransport
interop
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Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format
There is popular demand (including from Adobe https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430#iss... ), which is arguably evidence against (2).
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AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support
Microsoft Edge does support AV1, but weirdly only through a Microsoft Store extension [1], even though Chrome has support built-in. This actually really sucks because in practice hardly any normal consumers would bother to install a strangely named extension, and so web developers have to assume it's largely unsupported in Edge. Safari ties support to a hardware decoder, which I suppose is understandable to avoid accidental battery drain from using a software codec, and means eventually in some year's time support can generally be relied upon when enough new hardware is in use. But that won't happen with Edge as things stand!
I think it's high time the web had a single audio and video codec choice that was widely supported, which is why I've proposed support for AV1 and Opus for the Interop 2024 effort [2] [3].
[1] https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/av1-video-extension/9MVZQV...
[2] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/485
[3] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/484
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Adobe proposes JPEG XL for interop web platform tests
This is the comment to read:
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430#iss...
It got me drooling for JPEG XL like I never did for WebP or HEIC.
- JPEG XL Proposed for Interop 2024
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InterOp - what can we actually expect this year?
The Interop group describe this focus area as: "enable testing for font stack capabilities and enable additional expressiveness with vector color fonts. (Font feature detection and palettes)".
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What new CSS and JavaScript features can we expect soon? Or is it all unexpected?
I would say that overall InterOp 2022 went well, they completed most of what they planned to do. Of the 15 focus areas, 13 focus areas had an InterOp score of over 80%.
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Improvements that CSS could use in 2023
Interop 2023 is under development, the project timeline states that a public announcement will be made this week. 🤞
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Pluralistic: Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices (13 Dec 2022)
https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#ios-saf...
And
https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#evidenc...
Make sure you tap more comments to see the examples.
The number one issue for building native like apps is this https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/84
It has been buggy for as long as I can remember and never been fixed.
Not to mention the 10 years of issues with indexeddb or the issues with WebRTC.
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Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
Open Web Advocacy has been very clear that they want competition on iOS, not Chrome specifically. The reason being that the absence of competition is currently allowing Apple to deteriorate the web experience on iOS, preventing the web and web apps from competing with native apps. Their objective is to lift these artificial limitations imposed by Apple and free the web.
OWA members have actually been actively reporting WebKit bugs and interacting with the Safari team to help prioritise features and bug fixes on Twitter and elsewhere, showing the goal is to improve the overall web experience on iOS, not let Chrome to become dominant. Here is one of their detailed bug report: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022/issues/84.
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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice
Container Queries and Subgrid are only available in Safari Technology Preview, not stable, and Firefox has actually been supporting Subgrid for more than 2 years. Because CQ is not supported by either Chrome of Firefox, it will be at least 2 years before we can start actually using it.
It would have been much wiser for Safari to catch up on the dozens of features they don't support that both Chrome and Firefox do, or to focus on bug fixes for the most basic features that's been broken for years. Instead, they chose to ship shiny new ones to try and convince both regulators (from the EU, UK, US, etc) and web developers that they are leading the way in feature adoption. Unfortunately this seems to be working to some extent in the web devs community. Regulators are unlikely to fall for it though.
Here is the 7 years old scrolling bug I'm referring to, which prevents any decent implementation of modals in Safari on iOS: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022/issues/84
Here you can see that Safari has 5 times more API failures (representative of both missing features and bugs) than Chrome, and 3 times more than Firefox: https://wpt.fyi/
What are some alternatives?
standards-positions
totally-not-spyware - webkit; but pwned
caniuse - Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com
UrlChecker - Android app by TrianguloY: URLCheck
popover-polyfill - Polyfills the HTML popover attribute and showPopover/hidePopover/togglePopover methods onto HTMLElement, as well as the popovertarget and popovertargetaction attributes on <button> elements.
construct-stylesheets - API for constructing CSS stylesheet objects
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
uBlock-Safari - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean.
enhance.dev - Docs website for Enhance!
postcss-nesting - Nest style rules inside each other
swup - Versatile and extensible page transition library for server-rendered websites 🎉
web-bugs - A place to report bugs on websites.