Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

June 7th, 2023

@firt @ViliamKopecky Well, they do look at and respect `standalone` as their trigger to not show navigation controls. It should report at least that correctly then. Full support for all display modes would be the optimum of course.

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@jasonmcneill @fakebaldur If you compare open.spotify.com with the installed variant, I personally think it makes sense for truly app-like experiences to not show a URL bar. But I get and respect that there are different points of view on this ques

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@stshank I’m very happy indeed, and as I wrote in my Conclusion https://t.co/N951tidwar: “There is an enormous potential for web apps on macOS to succeed, and if Apple only works on a third of the items on my wish list, the potential is even bigger”.

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RT @stshank: Here’s a useful, thorough deep dive on Safari web apps on MacOS Sonoma, which speaking as a web app person I see as a very big…

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@ViliamKopecky In theory it should, in practice there’s a bug: https://t.co/S8fVLH43Eq.

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RT @fakebaldur: “Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta”

I know it’s popular to only acknowledge progress (esp. Safari progress) with a complain…

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@jaroslawjarosik It’s a fair remark, so added it to my article: https://t.co/DvjjSdhlI6.

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@jaroslawjarosik When right-clicking the Dock icon, you can uncheck “Keep in Dock” and still launch the app via Launchpad, Spotlight search, etc.

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@jaroslawjarosik Same-origin links are handled in-app, cross-origin links open in the default browser.

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@prchdk Minor correction: “For apps with a manifest, there’s no Safari UI” → “For apps with a manifest with `”display”: “standalone”`, there’s no Safari UI”.

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@Stof70 Thank you. Added a clarification: https://t.co/dr5Uhxn71Q.

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@jamespearce We have a proposal open that probably soon will be merged: https://t.co/m8DgyQkorV.

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🔢 Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta:

https://t.co/s0fSeW0edq

With macOS Sonoma, Apple goes all-in on the concept of installable web apps. They’re highly integrated in the overall macOS experience and don’t give away their web roots by not showing any

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@renniemurph In the menu: Safari > Settings > Privacy. There’s also some privacy settings in Safari > Settings > Advanced.

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@renniemurph It’s probably Safari’s intelligent tracking prevention and privacy features that get detected as an ad blocker by some site that you’re on. https://t.co/lmaod6xFdt

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@JuliusKovac @YouTube I don’t know, but you can open a WebKit bug at bugs.webkit.org and ask the @webkit team to investigate.

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@sillvvasensei @roebuk It’s only supported by Safari so far. Not sure if they open this up to other browsers, similar to what they did in iOS/iPadOS.

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