Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

July 30th, 2021

@lapcatsoftware Building a new browser engine from scratch definitely is a _super_ challenging endeavor, we fully agree. It’s not _impossible_ though, a@FlowBrowserer show. It’s of course easier to fork or build upon an existing engine, all acknowledg

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to lapcatsoftware

@lapcatsoftware @FlowBrowser “SpiderMonkey is Mozilla’s _JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine_, used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects.”â€@SpiderMonkeyJSMonkeyJS (emphasis mine)

via Echofon in reply to lapcatsoftware

RT @justinschuh: This article provides quite the catalog of accumulating damage that Safari has done to the Open Web over many years, but a…

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@lapcatsoftware Paging @FlowBrowser who were busy building a new browser engine while you were typing this tweet. ekioh.com/flow-browser/

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@adamdbradley I remember doing a Web search for this. I eventually restructured my class. 😅

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The Share sheet in Safari on iOS 15.0 (build 19A5307g) stretches the concept of sharing a fair bit: the first action is Reload. There’s also this weird reload button in the collapsed URL bar… 🤨 Hoping for the next design iterpic.twitter.com/gTwefKdo5y

via Twitter for iPhone

@quicksave2k I’d be curious to learn the size of the teams that work on WebGPU in Safari compared to Chrome.

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@steffenweber @petele @Mustafa_x Apparently according to @Mustafa_x the mini info bar re-appearing on reload after being swiped away is a bug. On the browser this happens on could you please file a new.crbug.com and paste the link here? I’m ha

via Twitter Web App in reply to tomayac

RT @agektmr: Desktop Chrome will soon receive SMS OTP delivered to your Android device if the website is using WebOTP. The beta Chrome 93 i…

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“We’re documenting these enhancements on https://t.co/XkURpUMeeA and are proposing the specifications to standards bodies.”—https://t.co/i7WRZufBqi (Feb 9, 2009)

There’s more: https://t.co/DW3E4F1HUz

And they’re still innovating: https://t.c

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@frgx @justinschuh @cramforce @cos_theta On the same device a VPN and Private Relay (PR) apparently don’t work together (if I read the slides well). If you proxy your device running PR through a server that runs Cloudflare VPN, I don’t know what happe

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@steffenweber @petele @Mustafa_x, regarding the new mini info bar with screenshots and description: users ask if there is no way to close the bar _permanently_ (like with the ‘X’ in the old bar).

via Twitter Web App in reply to steffenweber

@steffenweber @petele Our recommendation is for sites to listen for the `onbeforeinstallprompt` event to control themselves when (or if at all) the banner will be shown: https://t.co/weDPM0jYBN.

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@VorticonCmdr @pimterry May I recommend reading this article by @derSchepp before saying something “is the new IE”? https://t.co/nme2hB3nPp

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An in-depth analysis by ⁦@pimterry⁩ of the impact Safari’s role that Apple decides the browser can play has on the Web. https://t.co/DH9u0AbbXp

via Twitter for iPhone

@brucel @cramforce Better documentation link for this feature: https://t.co/qz3iDxTJJ1.

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RT @ChromeDevTools: Cross-browser automation is hard. WebDriver BiDi is a new protocol aiming to solve that!

In this post, @maximsadym w…

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RT @smashingmag: ✨ There is no such thing as a CSS absolute unit. Well, @eladsc measured them. With a ruler.

https://t.co/xV9yoRTFV5 https…

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