interop
epiphany
interop | epiphany | |
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15 | 11 | |
247 | 300 | |
3.3% | 1.3% | |
7.0 | 9.4 | |
9 days ago | 5 days ago | |
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- | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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/
epiphany
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Mozilla removes Bypass Paywalls Clean extension from its add-ons repository
Mozilla is just using Firefox's old reputation to market itself as an organisation for Internet freedom, while receiving donations from search engines. People see more advertisements in Firefox than in Chrome and still support Firefox. They forget there is Epiphany.
- What’s your latest epiphany?
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Gnome Web scores higher web platform tests score than Firefox, Safari 🚀️
You can follow its development by yourself here. If you add Planet GNOME to your feed reader you're also extra likely to see such announcements.
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I'll take my chances 🤷
Use Epiphany. It uses webkit and thus behaves pretty much the same as Safari for most browser specific bugs.
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border: 1px solid red; and I’m happy with it
As far as I can tell, there is no free and easy way to do this unless you own an Apple device. Recently it came to my attention that tools such as Epiphany (Linux) and Playwright (Windows) exist, but even then it's just the rendering engine you're testing, and who knows what weird bugs you might run into.
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Show HN: Ants Sandbox
You might want to take a look at Epiphany[1]. It's just Safari (Webkit, actually), but without the need for Apple devices.
[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany
- With the port to GTK 4 that will bring better performance, and extensions, Epiphany takes a big leap forward and becomes a viable option for many others.
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Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
They used to have a port of Safari for Windows. It was as popular as you'd expect. Having said that, WebKit - the engine underpinning Safari - is open source with BSD and LGPL 2.1 compatible licensing (https://webkit.org/project/). In addition, they make the engine available for use on Linux (https://webkit.org/downloads/). Gnome Epiphany is a browser based on WebKit (https://github.com/GNOME/epiphany). According to their manifesto, they support Simplicity, Standards Compliance and Software Freedom. Specifically, "Epiphany opposes the dominance of the web by proprietary software web browsers. Today's chief offender is Google Chrome, a browser that purports to be open source, yet actually includes several proprietary components."
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Scroll Improvement - An Epiphany extension to scroll more pixels smoothly
Epiphany development relies heavily on WebKitGTK, some things are out of reach for developers who do a great job. One such problem is the scroll speed. This extension is a workaround for that, please if you can contribute, contribute upstream.
- GNOME Web: personal data seems to persist after pressing the clear button
What are some alternatives?
totally-not-spyware - webkit; but pwned
dom - DOM Standard
UrlChecker - Android app by TrianguloY: URLCheck
Minecraft-Server-DDoSer - Do you want to troll an entire Minecraft server? Go ahead with the Minecraft Server DDOS'er!
construct-stylesheets - API for constructing CSS stylesheet objects
MHDDoS - Best DDoS Attack Script Python3, Cyber Attack With 51 Methods [Moved to: https://github.com/MatrixTM/MHDDoS]
standards-positions - WebKit's positions on emerging web specifications
brutal - 🏢 An operating system inspired by brutalist design that combines the ideals of UNIX from the 1970s with modern technology and engineering
uBlock-Safari - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean.
Scroll-Improvement - Scroll more pixels smoothly with this improvement.
postcss-nesting - Nest style rules inside each other
MHDDoS - Best DDoS Attack Script Python3, (Cyber / DDos) Attack With 56 Methods