Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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This was cross-posted from Mastodon. Now properly tagging @pwabuilder 👋!

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@babeoleary There’s still a blocking bug that makes it slow on iOS. twitter.com/tomayac/status…

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ChromiumDev 📢 Did you know that more and more app stores 🛍️ are welcoming of PWAs? In @tomayac’s new article, you’ll learn which stores, and what tool to use:

web.dev/pwas-in-app-st…

(Hint: the tool’s mascot is an otter 🦦 and its Twitter handle @pwabuilder does what it says on the tin.)

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📢 Did you know that more and more app stores 🛍️ are welcoming of PWAs? In my new article, you’ll learn which stores, and what tool to use:

web.dev/pwas-in-app-st…

(Hint: the tool’s mascot is an otter 🦦 and its Twitter handle PWABuilder does w

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@harttleharttle Looks like my spec link didn’t successfully get crossposted from Mastodon. Here’s the correct link: w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/c…

“[The text-transform property] has no effect on the underlying content, and must not affect the content of a plain

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@tommygeorge It’s broken for some, and working as intended for others. It’s broken for me.

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@benmorss There’s arguments pro and con. My use case is copying headlines from blogs and share them. AND I PREFER NOT TO SHOUT AT MY FOLLOWERS. You hear me?

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quicksave2k We’re working on letting developers control camera background blur in JavaScript.
This experimental API is available in Chrome Canary for ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows if you want to try it.

ϞϞ(๑⚈ ․̫ ⚈๑)

🎲googlechrome.github.io/samples/image-…

📒 w3c.github.io/mediacapture-e… pic.twitter.com/FSmOvq46y3

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In the HTML: `<h1>Hello</h1>`.
In the CSS: `h1 { text-transform: uppercase; }`.
Select the H1 and copy. On the 📋 clipboard:

Chrome: HELLO
Safari: HELLO
Firefox: Hello

Only Firefox is right: w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/..toot.cafe/@tomayac/11011…DV

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I’m very new to prompt engineering, so I enjoyed this overview a lot: learnprompting.org.

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@nathankurtyka Ah, I see. This would be interesting to know, too. Not sure if Apple tracks this at all (probably not). Good luck with your release!

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“You can take some HTML, you can write it down on the back of a napkin, you can put it in your pocket, you can put it in the wash, grab it out of the dryer, uncrumple a little bit, type it back in with a bunch of typos, and it’ll pro..toot.cafe/@tomayac/11010…

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@nathankurtyka Haha, good question. People mention there’s a maximum of nine pages on the Home Screen. Not sure if this is still true now that we have App Library. Try and let us know! 😃

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@x00sp Oh, I remember now. The open-source project is abandoned: github.com/metabolist/met….

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@x00sp I disliked something about Metatext, but don’t recall what. Maybe the account picker in the compose view? Not sure anymore. Should give it another go…

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@ericlaw Also sometimes the search view is entirely messed up and you have to kill the app.

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I’m looking for a client that lets my timeline begin where I left off, even when it’s two days in the past. I want then to slowly and chronologically work my way up to “now”, and the client would fill the gaps as I read, wi..toot.cafe/@tomayac/11010…

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🤩 iOS/iPadOS 16.4 massively improve upon what’s possible on the Web on iOS/iPadOS devices, including several Project Fugu 🐡 APIs. I’ve just set aside the morning to read through the release notes: webkit.org/blog/13966/web…..toot.cafe/@tomayac/11009…

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📢The File System Standard adds an origin private file system (OPFS) 📂 as a storage endpoint private to the origin of a page providing optional access to a special kind of file 🗂️ that’s highly optimized for performance. My latest art..toot.cafe/@tomayac/11009…

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tomayac 📢The File System Standard adds an origin private file system (OPFS) 📂 as a storage endpoint private to the origin of a page providing optional access to a special kind of file 🗂️ that’s highly optimized for performance. @tomayac’s article has all facts! developer.chrome.com/articles/origi…

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📢The File System Standard adds an origin private file system (OPFS) 📂 as a storage endpoint private to the origin of a page providing optional access to a special kind of file 🗂️ that’s highly optimized for performance. @tomayac’s article hdeveloper.chrome.com/articles/origi…

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guettli @tomayac Until recently I was disappointed that WebSQL did not made it.

But the final result is better. With WASM you know exactly what kind of SQLite you get.

I guess this will be the foundation of many offline first PWAs.

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 1:35 PM, Mar 25th, 2023 via Twitter Web App)