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caniuse
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Show HN: Render audio to HTML canvas using WebGPU
On my M1 MBP, Safari 17.4.1, it straight up doesn't work. Can I Use does say Safari only support WebGPU on TP and behind a flag: https://caniuse.com/?search=webgpu
Perhaps a Safari TP bug? I'd appreciate some browser version info so I can dig deeper.
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Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
Do you happen to know where can I check out the cutoff version for each browser? https://caniuse.com/?search=wasm doesn't have it (or other things like WasmGC for that matter)
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10 Websites Every Web Developer Should Bookmark
(https://caniuse.com/) A handy tool for checking the browser compatibility of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features. Can I Use provides up-to-date support tables for various web technologies across different browsers.
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Free Resources Every Web Developer Should Know About
Can I Use (https://caniuse.com/)
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Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness
> Is it though?
In my experience it's the buggiest browser out of the big three, and is often missing basic features like e.g.:
https://caniuse.com/?search=opus
Supported in Firefox for *12 years* now, in Chrome for 10, still no support in Safari.
They only "support" Opus audio in their special snowflake '.caf' container, which is super buggy and the last time I checked no open source program could even generate Opus '.caf' files that could be played by Safari on all Apple platforms. I ended up writing a custom converter which takes a standard '.opus' file and remuxes it on-the-fly (I only store '.opus' files on my server) into Safari-compatible '.caf' files, taking special care to massage it so that it avoids all of their demuxer/decoder bugs. You shouldn't have to do this to have cross-browser high quality audio!
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Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript
Seems like browser support is pretty universal, even says so in the article
> All browsers support streaming HTML
And the caniuse is promising: https://caniuse.com/?search=slot
Well I'll be! In my mind I had this clear picture of Firefox implementing it.
It correct, it was only Chrome: https://caniuse.com/?search=html%20import
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IPissed: Apple is after web capabilities to protect close to 100B App Store Tax
https://caniuse.com/?search=web%20bluetooth
which might be great because you have the choice...
and you can use open source chromium or brave (like the jvm to run cross platform java) to run web apps seemlessly that need web bluetooth or such but use safari or firefox for personal use if you find them more secure
I mean using chromium engine as the running environment where chromium only ever runs special trusted web domains and never goes to other "malicious" web domains that may fuck up iOS as Apple claims would be still a secure choice
like you will not download spyware from Apple Store because you are an adult not because Apple can protect you there
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WebAssembly Playground
I'm developing a wasm game, and currently I am targeting WebGL2 in order to run in iOS Safari.
Me (and others, I'm sure) are currently waiting for WebGPU [1] to land in Safari so it will make sense to target it.
WebGPU allows for simplified porting of desktop apps to the web, such as WGSL shaders [2]
WebGPU will be the next big thing, and currently it is enabled on Chrome Windows/macOS, and can be enabled in Firefox Nightly with a config setting.
Hopefully, 2024 will be the year of WebGPU!
WebKit
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HTML Streaming and DOM Diffing Algorithm
Since 2023 Chrome announced the View Transition API, and it looks like Safari is also going to support it soon.
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Towards memory safety with ownership checks for C
One heap per type.
Here’s an allocator optimized for that use case.
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/bmalloc/li...
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Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
To use this in Bun, you’d have to start Bun with the environment variable “BUN_JSC_useDollarVM=1” and then $vm.createBuiltin(mySourceCodeString)
When using this intrinsic, if any of the arguments are incorrect or it cannot otherwise enable it, the entire process will probably crash. In debug builds of JSC it will have a nicer assertion failure but that is not enabled in release builds
Example code: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/17351231b4dedb62d81721...
also happy to answer any questions about Bun
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Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
Ah, good, let me introduce you to the wonderful world of the Chrome Devtools Protocol! (fka Chrome Remote Debugging Protocol)
I love this API for almost everything browser related. I built my RBI product atop this (BrowserBox: https://dosyago.com), and I think it's a drastically underrated API.
Also, it works out of the box in Edge, Brave, Chromium, and many parts of CRDP are supported by Firefox and Safari^1
1: See for example: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/main/Source/JavaScript...
- WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview
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Disabling iOS Personalized Ads tells kernel to kill daemon every 3 seconds
No, it's unrelated.
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/064df1a9f395f8c6e32c...
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Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs
It's being worked on now: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/17320
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iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
It is different. The cross-site navigation flag is a couple of years old. It was enabled by default for iOS in November 2018 for example https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/e191fc8c412850cb9fd0...
Technology Preview versions 173 and newer [58].
[57] is https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/10169. At the bottom of it, an engineer continues to link ongoing hardening patches for window.open() + process isolation.
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Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends
> That's excessive scope creep. Adding site-specific workarounds for some sites feels uncomfortable.
Not to Google and its fellow corporations apparently.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29707078
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...
They have site-specific fixes for their own sites. Why can obviously apply the exact same strategy to dealing with every single website out there. If a website is broken or generally annoying to use, just fix it by providing a site specific version of the browser.
> Who decides what websites get "fixed", and how?
Whoever develops the browser or its extensions. Arguably the whole of uBlock Origin and its filter lists is just a database of site specific fixes. If people can maintain an extremely huge list of advertisers and blockers for every website out there, surely they can maintain something like this too.
> Also, remember how Mozilla is funded.
I remember Mozilla has about a billion dollars in the bank. Who cares about their Google funding? I doubt they're gonna drop them anyway. I bet they pay them just to ward off risk of antitrust lawsuits.
What are some alternatives?
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
otter-browser - Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5
browserslist - 🦔 Share target browsers between different front-end tools, like Autoprefixer, Stylelint and babel-preset-env
caniemail - Can I email… Support tables for HTML and CSS in emails.
postcss-preset-env - Convert modern CSS into something browsers understand
modern-css-reset - A bare-bones CSS reset for modern web development.
modern-normalize - 🐒 Normalize browsers' default style
cname-trackers - This repository contains a list of popular CNAME trackers
WHATWG HTML Standard - HTML Standard
fingerprintjs - Browser fingerprinting library. Accuracy of this version is 40-60%, accuracy of the commercial Fingerprint Identification is 99.5%. V4 of this library is BSL licensed.
Servo - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
gecko-dev - Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html