April 2020

@vitimus1 @ChromiumDev Fingerprinting is likely to come up in a later stage of the process once there’s spec work and a TAG review happening. Watch the repo https://t.co/Egn50Fqw1y for more.

10:40 PM, Apr 30th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@koush @slightlylate The meta bug to follow is https://t.co/BB5WszyyJd.

7:33 PM, Apr 30th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@adamdbradley The second origin trial will run until September 30, 2020; that is, Chrome 85. It’s definitely making very good and steady progress: https://t.co/xTo8zYJdqL. The current plan is to then ship in 86: https://t.co/jJqVyjugzY.

10:35 PM, Apr 29th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@adamdbradley We’re offering a library that makes onboarding your app to native files as smooth as possible on all current browsers: https://t.co/8GMIc3utO1 💾. Try it on https://t.co/SMCXc0sA5q.

9:47 PM, Apr 29th, 2020 via Echofon

@fantasai @DavidDarnes @AllThingsSmitty @nhoizey @HenriHelvetica @jonathandavis @webkit @tabatkins Thanks for the reply; and sorry, it was hard to get the context. We were discussing whether the first screenshot with the footer _not_ at the bottom in Chro

5:07 PM, Apr 29th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@DavidDarnes @AllThingsSmitty @nhoizey @HenriHelvetica @jonathandavis @webkit Maybe @fantasai or @tabatkins as the spec editors can clarify what’s the correct behavior here.

2:58 PM, Apr 29th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@AllThingsSmitty @nhoizey @HenriHelvetica @DavidDarnes @jonathandavis @webkit Chrome 83 and Chrome 84 render it broken as in my screenshot. I’m not an expert, but it seems it’s not really in the spec anymore: https://t.co/q6D86tcrbE (search for ‘stret

2:13 PM, Apr 29th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@nhoizey @HenriHelvetica @AllThingsSmitty @DavidDarnes @jonathandavis @webkit Ugh, while this works on iOS Safari and in-app browsers like the one in Google Hangouts, it breaks in Chrome, since Chrome honors `-webkit-fill-available` (and consequently does

11:58 AM, Apr 29th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@rowan_m @RReverser Make that `<dalí-clock>`. It’s a @mathias approved name (ignore the warning, YOLO): https://t.co/Vz858PvlUk. He took the time to convert https://t.co/hykZPozeXy into a usable tool.

9:43 AM, Apr 29th, 2020 via Echofon

@marvinhagemeist You’ll be interested in following along https://t.co/kTVZ4ToUHE. It’s fun to try the demo https://t.co/obFhNFJUfL in latest builds of Chromium (https://t.co/wgocnHmNxL) and to see progress each time.

9:29 AM, Apr 29th, 2020 via Echofon

@quat1024 The fact that you can doesn’t mean you should ;-) As mentioned in the blog post: https://t.co/yDdT5CBGGZ

3:26 PM, Apr 28th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@gregwhitworth I wrote about it in web.dev/color-scheme/ and it’s on a number of pages I contributed to, for examplev8.dev3M (and of course my blog).

9:22 AM, Apr 28th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to gregwhitworth

@DanShappir @Wix 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefo

9:04 AM, Apr 28th, 2020 via Echofon

@JarSyr @ChromiumDev This is exclusively about related native applications, though: https://t.co/GVFmiIkedk.

10:36 PM, Apr 27th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@JarSyr @ChromiumDev That’s the pattern to follow. The event won’t fire again when the app is already installed. 💍

10:33 PM, Apr 27th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@JarSyr Oh, “it’s” should be “its”. Where’s the edit button when you need it?

5:17 PM, Apr 27th, 2020 via Echofon

@JarSyr @ChromiumDev If the question is purely about finding out if the PWA is installed (vs. running in a browser tab), then you can check via
`if (window.matchMedia(‘(display-mode: standalone)’).matches) { // installed }`

5:16 PM, Apr 27th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@JarSyr @ChromiumDev It is possible today to find out from a PWA if it’s corresponding native Android app is installed: https://t.co/8yfpqTDSJP.

5:15 PM, Apr 27th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@andreban @kennethrohde @esviji @slightlylate @firt Could Web Packaging be the solution?

11:52 AM, Apr 27th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@kennethrohde @esviji @slightlylate @andreban The rejection message at least is pretty clear about this. Do we have this limitation in our docs, @andreban? The article https://t.co/xZsWlEJ9xT points to https://t.co/HxzQGlDQfD, when I search the print vers

9:02 AM, Apr 27th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@crafty @Mustafa_x @Google Congratulations! 🎉

Side note: I still think it’s hilarious that these don’t come framed (for the uninitiated: you get instructions how to expense a frame). Mine’s still in the container under my desk.

8:19 PM, Apr 26th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to crafty

@lamplightdev @ChromiumDev Thanks for sharing! Reminders are a great use case for this API indeed. Please share any feedback on the developer experience you may have: https://t.co/8xm5izIfKl. Thanks!

7:57 PM, Apr 26th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@justinfagnani @slightlylate My mid-2000 brain immediately thinks XMLHttpRequest actually requesting XML or, dare I say, RDF/XML (https://t.co/PEvTBfe7FS) that gets transformed with XSLT (https://t.co/carciLsofe). Not endorsing any of these now, but remin

1:07 PM, Apr 26th, 2020 via Echofon

@firt @rmehner This is now tracked in https://t.co/WIEIm0KvrF.

9:29 AM, Apr 26th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@simevidas It’s now blocked on https://t.co/cvvkEokrpp. People are on it.

2:43 AM, Apr 25th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@rowan_m If overly applied, we call it Akzentsetzungskorrekturwahnsinn.

10:48 PM, Apr 24th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to rowan_m

@rowan_m My wife’s first reaction was: “But it’s Dalí, not Dali”. Not a big deal; it’s acute mistake a lot of foreigners make.
https://t.co/k04VTp3fAq

10:20 PM, Apr 24th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@ericlaw @reillyeon @mgiuca I’ve had Google Assistant “Stories to Read” pitch me a ton of Forbes clickbait stories. You won’t believe what I did next.
OK, I’ll spoil it: I clicked “🚫 Don’t show stories from Forbes”.

9:43 PM, Apr 24th, 2020 via Echofon

@rowan_m The seconds clock hand probably should have the highest z-index.

On iOS, you need to ask for permission now; off the top of my head it’s something like…

“`js
const permission = await DeviceMotionEvent.requestPermission();
if (permission ==

9:36 PM, Apr 24th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to rowan_m

@DanShappir @jaffathecake As long as the statement doesn’t apply to Kimi 🐈 the Internet is fine.

9:24 PM, Apr 24th, 2020 via Echofon

@SporksAreGood4U @wescpy It’s a brilliant video. I mostly shared it so you know why I recommended Wesley :-) Have a great weekend!

4:07 PM, Apr 24th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to SporksAreGood4U

@SporksAreGood4U @wescpy youtu.be/cKIVdzCf8ic

3:51 PM, Apr 24th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to SporksAreGood4U

@SporksAreGood4U Heya, it’s been a while :-) Probably ping twitter.com/wescpy. He might be able to help.

3:06 PM, Apr 24th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to SporksAreGood4U

@CharlieCroom @AaronGustafson Oh, it’s indeed not happening in 84. I am on 83 regularly. Must have been us then, sorry… :-D Thanks for the reply still.

4:00 PM, Apr 23rd, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to CharlieCroom

@CharlieCroom There’s probably a better way to report bugs than mentioning you (but I don’t know it), so here it goes: on the DM route (twitter.com/messages), the “Message requests” span doesn’t get the horizontal space it deserves. pic.twitter.com/NlUAuI3tDB

3:33 PM, Apr 23rd, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@jaffathecake @guyrleech @JimMoyle @mparpaillon @DanShappir Ugh, what a foot gun.

2:27 PM, Apr 23rd, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@Paul_Kinlan We have enough time to make it a truly amazing remote experience, at least this year. Even for the unlikely event that there will be a vaccine, probably not every potential attendee will have had a chance to get it.

9:42 AM, Apr 23rd, 2020 via Echofon in reply to Paul_Kinlan

@DanShappir The second example. The `else` just adds an unnecessary level of indentation. The `if` should be the exit conditions.

9:17 AM, Apr 23rd, 2020 via Echofon

@mrdoob @luruke That’s how I read it.

processingDuration, of type double

The elapsed duration in seconds from submission of the encoded packet with the same presentation timestamp (PTS) as this frame (e.g. same as the mediaTime) to the decoder until t

9:13 AM, Apr 23rd, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to mrdoob

@kennethrohde It is a way better name, albeit the API shape and usage does resemble rAF, it is not the same.

2:00 PM, Apr 22nd, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@kennethrohde It’s just been renamed: https://t.co/ndkkfQEcbl.

1:58 PM, Apr 22nd, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@jaffathecake That’s the happiest story on the Internet today. 😻
What happened to the trap, though?

12:31 PM, Apr 22nd, 2020 via Echofon in reply to jaffathecake

@Dieulot @webkit True indeed. Hopefully statements like Walmart’s can help toggle the toggle. 😃

8:31 AM, Apr 22nd, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to Dieulot

@_jayphelps @samthor Yes, can reproduce this. You’re stuck on a white page.

8:40 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Echofon in reply to _jayphelps

@samthor Nice trick, but yeah, probably should only try this at home… 😆
(Love the Chrome theme, I still use it myself after all the years.)

8:34 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Echofon in reply to samthor

@espadrine @mathias @LeaVerou @ChromeDevTools We plan on evaluating the feature with a browser extension, and then decide on our next steps. The extension will add a right-click menu, so the flow will be the same.
https://t.co/kio89jeyEX

6:59 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@AndreJaenisch @LeaVerou I have a Chrome extension ready-ish that will be released properly on the Chrome Web Store in the not too distant future (some things need to get sorted first). Meanwhile, you can test it in developer mode: https://t.co/L544M5GUEA

6:11 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@rowan_m Dalí-esque.

5:35 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to rowan_m

@jaffathecake 🌳 🐈 🔜 💪🏻🐱
Really happy for you!

11:36 PM, Apr 20th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to jaffathecake

@rmondello Parsing HTML? Yes, please. 🍿

11:19 PM, Apr 20th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to rmondello

@justmarkup Small typo: s/Use the build-in search/Use the built-in search/

Good luck with the launch!

2:44 PM, Apr 20th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to justmarkup

@jaffathecake @LeonieWatson @Paul_Kinlan I just saw weird ghost pictures that looked night-visiony, never tried it myself. Good luck with the regular torch then, hope you find it!

8:57 PM, Apr 19th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@jaffathecake @LeonieWatson I have absolutely no idea if this is helpful for finding a cat at night (sorry if it’s not), but I recall @Paul_Kinlan playing with the Pixel 4 infrared camera: https://t.co/sEoI426DfG.

8:48 PM, Apr 19th, 2020 via Echofon

@Justinwillis96 @pwabuilder Have you seen @mrdoob’s tweet? https://t.co/n13oVLoQex

11:20 AM, Apr 19th, 2020 via Echofon

@mathias @yoavweiss Say ‘revert’ again. Say ‘revert’ again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say ‘revert’ one more Goddamn time! pic.twitter.com/rgXpSmIMT1

10:54 AM, Apr 19th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to mathias

@gavindoughtie @excalidraw Check out the blog: https://t.co/4ZgWgwrTsL. It was all started by @Vjeux and others. (I have only contributed a tiny piece.)

6:57 PM, Apr 18th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@LostInBrittany @fsznajderman You can use the API as progressive enhancement, see this pattern in browser-nativefs: https://t.co/A3G6EtnwZa. Native API where possible, fallback everywhere else.

12:11 PM, Apr 18th, 2020 via Echofon

@LostInBrittany @polymer @OpenWc Have you seen that the Barcode Detection API has _finally_ launched in Chrome 83: https://t.co/HUOGGRYBvl. It’s available on devices with Google Play Services installed (but not on uncertified devices).

11:10 AM, Apr 18th, 2020 via Echofon

@nhoizey @bdc In a production app, you’d probably only load the full-resolution images in the lightbox view. Lazy-loading is quite aggressive, test it with a (simulated) JioPhone 2 (kicks in at the selected image). The bigger problem are the missing dimenpic.twitter.com/uuLHGqGSip

5:43 PM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to nhoizey

@sergeybedritsky @ChromiumDev @nuxt_js Respectfully, no. This is not the same. See the screenshots. All it took was adding `<meta name=”color-scheme” content=”dark light”>`. pic.twitter.com/k8Wo1MNPkE

5:27 PM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to sergeybedritsky

@firt The only reason may be legacy devices that are stuck on old iOS versions. Like iPhone 5 or something (which my parents still use).

5:08 PM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to firt

@nhoizey @bdc It has `loading=”lazy” (https://t.co/NsUY6mHAAQ), so once your gallery grows big, it kicks in.

4:18 PM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@TatianaTMac Yes we do. I should have started with “I, too, think…”.

4:04 PM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to TatianaTMac

@firt Hehe, talking of Web App Manifests: music.apple.com/manifest.json. Also worthwhile checking out the `<head>` section of the page. I can’t find a way to use the app in Safari (even deleting the native Music app doesn’t help). Works OK on desktop Chrome.

3:45 PM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to firt

@firt If the manifest can’t be loaded, you are in trouble anyway. iOS has less of a version fragmentation problem than other OSs *cough*, so (apart from really old devices) there’s an OK high chance the behavior is consistent. Your post raises good points

3:08 PM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to firt

@TatianaTMac I think it makes sense to initially respect `prefers-color-scheme`, but to also allow people to opt-out: https://t.co/Cypl59ryNV.

12:52 PM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@TatianaTMac v8.dev and blog.tomayac.com

12:50 PM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to TatianaTMac

@firt The manifest values take precedence. Honestly the only issue we ran into is the status bar translucent color; I’ve opened https://t.co/cMoMwNk73B for this.

9:22 AM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Echofon

@samthor Judging from the docs, a lot of developers fell into this trap: https://t.co/RZnpfCO7hN. There’s even a good example vs. bad example section. But why have angle brackets? I *think* the reason for `<…>` are extension relation types that can co

12:16 AM, Apr 17th, 2020 via Echofon

@CharlieCroom @MSEdgeDev It’s work in practice for sure: https://t.co/ZYYjJbNVW9.

10:58 PM, Apr 15th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@CharlieCroom @MSEdgeDev No. Microsoft are pioneering this for the time being.

10:54 PM, Apr 15th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to CharlieCroom

@kennethrohde https://t.co/mHB2a2tZ3q https://t.co/UtTgVnp90L

10:15 PM, Apr 15th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@Miel_vds @meemoo_be Congratulations, Miel!

9:48 PM, Apr 15th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to Miel_vds

@simevidas @ChromiumDev “If you look at https://t.co/Im725nn3Sm, it’s because we use ‘light’ as the preferred color scheme. We can only end up w/ a used dark scheme when the preferred color scheme is ‘dark’, or ‘no-preference’ with ‘dark’ appearing before

6:41 PM, Apr 15th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@simevidas @ChromiumDev Yes, the other files count, too. I just wanted to link somewhere concrete.

6:39 PM, Apr 15th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@nhoizey @simevidas @github All that being said, what’s the proper way for nice looking (and accessible) figure markup on GitHub? I tried using CSS, but most of it is being ignored.

9:28 AM, Apr 15th, 2020 via Echofon

@slightlylate @koush @samccone @Paul_Kinlan @vysorapp @b1tr0t Oh, the good old `https://t.co/CFKjtdmCKz(… API. It looks like the popup condition (https://t.co/YP4JsFrX99) could be a single point of failure: “The condition is implementation-depepdent an

9:21 AM, Apr 15th, 2020 via Echofon

@stshank @CharlieCroom Happy to talk about Project Fugu ðŸweb.dev/fugu-status/cLW.

10:01 PM, Apr 14th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to stshank

@midzer @ChromiumDev Linux unfortunately doesn’t have a common badging infrastructure. It’s dependent on the window manager. It’s coming for Chrome OS, though…

1:52 PM, Apr 14th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to midzer

@Vjeux @philip_harmse @excalidraw What browser do you use? On Chrome/Edge, we can use the Native File System API through browser-nativefs (https://t.co/8GMIc3utO1). Once you create a file (by opening an existing or creating a new file) the changes are sav

6:36 PM, Apr 13th, 2020 via Echofon

@excalidraw I work for the @googlechrome DevRel team, but in the end my job is Web DevRel, not Chrome DevRel. 😊 At least that’s how I see it. And PWAs are a core piece of Web technology. Made for all.

5:45 PM, Apr 13th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to excalidraw

@robertnyman Congratulations, Robert and Karin! 🥂

3:02 PM, Apr 13th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to robertnyman

@cwilso “Get stoned”. Oh, *the other* kind of stoned. I had to read this twice. 😂

12:21 PM, Apr 13th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to cwilso

@playbox21 Not that I’m aware of. But you can open a new Issue: https://t.co/ccVaVoAp83.

2:32 AM, Apr 12th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@samthor What’s this logo? I have set up a cron job that via Puppeteer gets a daily screenshot of your page, diffs it in a cloud function, and if there’s enough of a difference, sends the image off to another cloud function that OCRs it and sends me t

4:16 PM, Apr 11th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to samthor

@samthor ✅ Subscribed.

11:34 AM, Apr 11th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to samthor

@KevinKelchen Yeah, given these constraints it might be easier. Maybe Andre has another idea, let’s see.

9:05 PM, Apr 10th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to KevinKelchen

@KevinKelchen Maybe Trusted Web Activity is an option?

8:54 PM, Apr 10th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to KevinKelchen

@KevinKelchen Maybe @andreban has a solution?!

8:53 PM, Apr 10th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to KevinKelchen

@KevinKelchen Because WebViews can be any size, it’s perfectly valid to have a small “stripe” of Web content in an otherwise native app UI. It would be confusing if the API were exposed in such situations. Chrome Custom Tabs is full screen by force research.google/pubs/pub46739/

8:47 PM, Apr 10th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to KevinKelchen

@KevinKelchen It’s work in progress: https://t.co/X4XZneBJFg. 💍

8:32 PM, Apr 10th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@devxubr @ChromiumDev @ChromeDevTools I hope it becomes clear from the article. 😃

10:06 PM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to devxubr

@TheCelavi @rowan_m @googlechrome @ChromeDevTools @ChromiumDev Does your page by any chance contain `<meta http-equiv=”Content-Security-Policy” content=”upgrade-insecure-requests”>`, or is your dev server sending a `Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-insecu

5:34 PM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to tomayac

@SamyDindane …ce que tu viens de faire :-) Bonne chance!

5:21 PM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@SamyDindane Salut! Je ne sais pas, mais en tout cas souscris-toi sur https://t.co/Wrx0jS0R06, où je demande l’API.

5:20 PM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@TheCelavi @rowan_m @googlechrome @ChromeDevTools @ChromiumDev Could this Intent to Ship be related? https://t.co/CewokgitZV

5:11 PM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Twitter Web App

@marcenglund @vaadin @arduino @ChromiumDev Brilliant, thanks for the feedback and the bug report! And for playing with the API in an early stage of course!

4:29 PM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to marcenglund

@marcenglund @vaadin @arduino @ChromiumDev This is super cool! I could reproduce the crash with the installed PWA. Did you file a crbug.com/new for this?

3:53 PM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to marcenglund

@mathias @jaffathecake @harisvsulaiman Workflow xkcd.com/1172/

2:53 PM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Echofon in reply to mathias

@nic_o_martin @jeffposnick My related article (https://t.co/XzA35keT2k) was up for a while on https://t.co/Td9ah4AWNL, but I forgot to tweet about it—until yesterday. Sorry if this coincided with your (awesome 💏) article going up on CSS Tricks. I was

10:51 AM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Echofon

@canofsleep @ChromiumDev Chrome 82 will be skipped (https://t.co/RQKlAF0PcE), so probably it’ll be included in Chrome 83.

8:33 AM, Apr 9th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@JakeDChampion @ChromiumDev In this case we have an Explainer (https://t.co/obggRoB6tc), but no specification draft yet.

8:44 PM, Apr 8th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@dfabu @kennethrohde @petele @slightlylate Paging @andreban, our authoritative source when it comes to TWA. 💍

8:42 PM, Apr 8th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@kennethrohde @petele @slightlylate https://t.co/n0ppTSpA6u 😂

2:20 PM, Apr 8th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone

@jonalvarezz Woohoo, happy it works. 🎉
Next challenge: add a toggle: https://t.co/FKfxCMMVoL.

10:32 PM, Apr 7th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone