I’m mind-blown 🤯 by the Safari 16.4 beta release: https://t.co/sr2l5KCQNU. Some highlights:
ðŸ›Žï¸ Web Push for apps added to the Home Screen
🔲 Ability for other browsers to add apps to th…
https://t.co/UywLrzZKSR
@jaffathecake @toniengelhardt @ChromiumDev @DasSurma It’s apparently easy in Android apps: https://t.co/1FXw3XfN6a.
@jaffathecake @toniengelhardt @ChromiumDev @DasSurma I should have clarified: not a thing for PWAs. Google Maps installed as a PWA has a blue bar on both Android and iOS. If there’s a way to get a transparent bar for Android for PWAs, I don’t know it.
@jaffathecake @toniengelhardt @ChromiumDev @DasSurma As far as I know true transparency isn’t a thing on Android, but you can set the color dynamically via JavaScript. Many apps use this to react on dark mode / light mode changes. (Example: https://t.co
@stshank Yeah, I guess it’s a general browser thing, not limited to Chrome, sorry.
🔱 iOS Continuity Camera not working in Chrome? It’s not a bug, it’s a feature, and there’s a “magic pose” 🪄 fix to make it work. You can’t make this stuff up…
https://t.co/wmf6KUiYX9
@jaroslawjarosik Not my area of expertise, sorry.
Great article by @marcosc@mastodon.social explaining how the concept of user activation works in WebKit: https://t.co/9U2CTd4nLs.
@jaroslawjarosik I don’t know. Did you search https://t.co/irVTcG1QnZ?
Improved font fallbacks: https://t.co/woQnpBAOY5. Excellent deep dive into font fallbacks and the `size-adjust`, `ascent-override`, `descent-override`, and `line-gap-override` APIs by Katie Hempenius for more layout-stable font swapping.
Container queries land in stable browsers: web.dev/cq-stable/ 🎉. @Una@front-end.social celebrates universal support of the feature with a valentines special.