Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

June 9th, 2020

@HenrikJoreteg Absolutely, that’s what they’re good for! Key is a relative base font size: https://t.co/yx1jEWwdUC.

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ECMAScript 4, the JavaScript that could have been: https://t.co/qIl4zYsEwx. Super interesting article by @evertp on the ES4 release that never was. 💏

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@chelo_xl I don’t have a proper answer right now. The proper answer for the future would be a “system” wake lock: https://t.co/g5KQ3WVjpO.

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RT @marvinhagemeist: When a site’s password rules are so stupid that even browser vendors include hacks to work around them 😅

Looking at t…

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The Screen Fold Angle API (Editor’s draft): https://t.co/pCsClsP69y. ⤵️ https://t.co/9h21CYa4SX

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RT @brianleroux: Deno moving internals away from TypeScript is an interesting read.

Internal advocates finding Ry isn’t convinced by the…

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@KingstonTime @owencm @kennethrohde There’re several ideas that have been discussed: permission bundling (i.e., less overall permissions since they’re presented in bulk), permissions with a timeout (i.e., one bad decision isn’t forever), gating powe

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Users of `<dark-mode-toggle>` 🌒 (https://t.co/FKfxCMMVoL) should update to v0.6.0, where the `no-preference` logic has just been removed.

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@Nyr0 Maybe @abrax5 can say something about this bug?

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@Nyr0 I see. I’ll keep this use case in mind, though. Thanks for sharing this, good food for thought.

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@Nyr0 Ah, that’s interesting. I guess you could process text locally on an offscreen `<canvas>` and then upload the raw pixel data to the server.

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@KevinJHill Happy to read that. I hear @Salesforce is all in on Web Components… 😍 If you have feedback, I’d greatly appreciate it. It’s early days for `<font-select>`, but a first alpha version to play with is on my GitHub: https://t.co/oJXH5PPJGK.

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@KingstonTime @owencm @kennethrohde You can follow the Chrome team’s work on fingerprinting prevention: https://t.co/taEe7Mx3ur.

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@Nyr0 This explicitly is for locally installed fonts, not Web fonts. The use case is, for example, Web-based design apps, where users need access to (potentially exclusively licensed) corporate fonts that are only locally installed.

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@KingstonTime @owencm @kennethrohde The feature will eventually be gated behind a permission prompt: https://t.co/drzlE0CcbB. It’s up to our great Chrome UI team to make sure the prompt is clear and understandable.

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@kennethrohde @reillyeon Absolutely. I believe there’s a huge middle ground between readymade tools like this and everything WebML (https://t.co/zzhsBULAwZ, CC: @anssik, @nsthorat).

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@rauschma @derSchepp Whenever you don’t know a word in English but in French, chances are you can butcher its pronunciation so it sounds Frenglish, and in doing so appear like a highly educated person. I do that bow-coo.

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RT @justmarkup: Better Image Description Browser Extension

https://t.co/f4gUjkq3Rs

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