Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

June 23rd, 2022

RT @ZelenskyyUa: Sincerely commend EU leaders’ decision at #EUCO to grant 🇺🇦 a candidate status. It’s a unique and historical moment in 🇺🇦-…

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@twifkak @github That’s interesting nuance indeed. I’d have expected the opposite, since mobile devices have a higher tendency of running down to 0% battery, causing a forced reboot (and hence Chrome update). On desktop, I’ve seen many folks’ “Almost up t

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@JonasBchrt This is a really nice use case of the WebUSB API. I have just added your app to the Project Fugu 🐡 API Showcase: https://t.co/gI8Xfpn00K.

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How @GitHub thinks about browsers: https://t.co/7ScymzC2Ml. Some very interesting stats about browser update cycles (“the promise of evergreen browsers is here today”) and GitHub’s approach to responsible polyfilling (check the outlinks).

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@dev__adi Hmmm, somewhat the worst of all worlds 😉. Ask Nolan if he can add this to his tests. You can find him on Mastodotoot.cafe/@nolan8P4.

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Happy for Google having become one of the first publicly announced customers of Wikimedia Enterprise (https://t.co/TCt0SaPDeJ). Google uses Wikipedia content a fair lot and in many places, like knowledge panels for example. Here’s the press announcement:

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@keeluu @othermaciej @jaffathecake @jyasskin @mnot @webkit I have installed DuckDuckGo’s browser, which is `WKWebView`-based (https://t.co/XAxXP8qJMT), and it supports service workers just fine (see screenshot). https://t.co/Dk69lXN05H

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@othermaciej @kevinmarks @jaffathecake @jyasskin @mnot @webkit I wonder if it really matters so much. AJAX went to Ajax to meaning any kind of Web application that didn’t require a reload for each action. The same repeated with HTML5, which became a synon

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@othermaciej @jaffathecake @jyasskin @mnot @webkit Push is top of mind indeed, and thanks for implementing! Regarding data: I keep a list of other features we have heard developer demand for: https://t.co/YIBWimKoNl

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@othermaciej @jaffathecake @jyasskin @mnot @webkit Balancing risks vs. benefits is part of the standardization process. I wrote: “Of course WK is an app browser”. Core or non-core?

Open a file, edit it, save changes back to said file vs. downloading

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@othermaciej @jaffathecake @jyasskin @mnot @webkit Of course @WebKit is an app browser, it’s just that some core app features are lacking—and I’m not talking about hardware APIs. Here’re just a few:

→ Picker methods of the File System Access AP

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MathML is finally coming to Chromium:

“`html
<math>
<mfrac>
<msup>
<mi>x</mi>
<msqrt>
<mn>5</mn>
</msqrt>
</msup>
<mrow>
<mi>α</mi>
<mo>×</mo>
<mn>7</mn>
</mrow>
</mfrac>
</math>
“`
ðŸ’

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