Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

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October 25th, 2019

Not_Woods Initial support for the Web Share Target API in pic.twitter.com/spDqP1tEC4

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 12:17 AM, Oct 26th, 2019 via Echofon)

WebPlatformNews 🕵️‍♂️ The European Union is financing the development of a client-side page translation service (powered by machine learning) that will ultimately be open-sourced and integrated into Firefox.

Prototype running in Firefox: youtube.com/watch?v=_ha59D…

More info: zdnet.com/article/firefo…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:13 AM, Oct 26th, 2019 via Echofon)

AaronGustafson 🔖 I love how deep @hj_chen goes in her posts on CSS features! Check this one on CSS counters chenhuijing.com/blog/the-wondr…👾

via Buffer (retweeted on 11:59 PM, Oct 25th, 2019 via Echofon)

Display Locking (github.com/WICG/display-l…) is an exciting API proposal with a likewise fascinating history (read upward from the quoted tweet). ⤵️ twitter.com/rakinazata/sta…

via Echofon

stefanjudis The web is not an application platform?

I just came across this planing document of Project Fugu (chromium.org/teams/web-capa…), and wow! There is so much stuff coming to the web! 😲

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 12:59 PM, Oct 25th, 2019 via Echofon)

mathias Puppeteer v2.0.0 is out! 🔥

➡️ Emulate CSS media features such as dark/light mode or prefers-reduced-motion
➡️ Emulate timezones
➡️ Improved page.screenshot

github.com/GoogleChrome/p… pic.twitter.com/V1ECWgswfH

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:59 PM, Oct 25th, 2019 via Echofon)

ChromiumDev Automatic lazy-loading of images and iframes yields a ~10% reduction in bytes downloaded per page for Lite Mode on Android:

blog.chromium.org/2019/10/automa… ⚡️

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 12:56 PM, Oct 25th, 2019 via Echofon)

mathias The web app lets you view the schedule in your own timezone: developer.chrome.com/devsummit/sche… Super handy!

With Puppeteer v2, you can now write automated tests for this functionality. This script takes a screenshot of the schedule as viewed from Buenos Aires. pic.twitter.com/4M05EgGsr3

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 10:58 AM, Oct 25th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

Remember my 🌒📸 dark mode screenshot script from a couple months ago? @mathias has just implemented `page.emulateMediaFeatures(features)` in Puppeteer, which makes the script a lot lighter.
Needless to say, the PR that updates the script to use it wa@mathiastwitter.com/tomayac/status…

via Twitter Web App