Designer, developer, all things creative. Has opinions, few facts.
@gruber @alex Gruber, I think you are aware that companies/devs will often prioritize iOS. You even say that some of these apps will never make it to Android.
Why, then, would anyone even bother with a web app if it isn't viable on iOS? Is there anyone who then just shrugs and decides to build the web app for Android instead, with (close to) zero percent chance that it will ever work on iOS?
And how do you explain that web apps *are* dominant on desktop where the web is allowed to compete?
Hierarchy goes from top to bottom.
I will die on this hill.
I'm sorry, but if you feel the need to put the address bar* at the bottom, you bought a phone that's too big for your hands 🤷
* (or any UI that should live at the top because (natural, top-to-bottom) hierarchy)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691718/google-android-chrome-address-bar-bottom
On Friday, I was in Brussels, having fun in the European Commission for one of the highlights of the social calendar: Microsoft's DMA Compliance Workshop. Read about British Browser Boiz in Brussels! Fun at Microsoft’s DMA compliance meeting, and envy my glamorous life.
https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/british-browser-boiz-fun-microsoft-dma-compliance-meeting/
@tolmasky Less and scss allow single line comments, too. And since CSS-in-JS pretty much requires a build pipeline anyway (god forbid you run it on the client), you might as well use a preprocessed CSS language (even if it's just so you can use comments haha)
Regulators must balance real security with fair competition. Clear, proportionate rules will enhance safety, without letting gatekeepers weaponise them to block rivals from competing.
Get all the details here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/balancing-security-and-fair-competition/
19/19
Regulators around the world are tackling mobile platform monopolies.
But every time new laws like the EU’s DMA or the UK’s DMCC emerge to allow more competition, Apple and Google raise one predictable objection:
“Security”
Let’s unpack why that doesn’t hold up.
👇
1/19
Software development methodologies compared.
To anyone who thinks they need an SUV "because children": A good stationwagon has pretty much the exact same space, and it's better at being a car.
Think of it this way: The Best Family car is not an SUV.
It's the opposite.
It's the Multipla. 🫣
Looking into preconnect-/dns-prefetching Firebase Auth on the web, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
Does anyone know how to do it?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79670089/preconnect-dns-prefetch-firebase-auth
> We think [social media] is free speech, but it’s not speech. It’s ultra-processed speech. It’s speech in the way that Doritos are food — it’s something that has been designed by people in lab coats to get past the parts of your brain that protect you.”
https://www.theverge.com/social/687639/its-speech-in-the-way-doritos-are-food
@patrickbrosset Sweet! Is it available as RSS feed? (I'm on mobile RN so can't easily find it)
Did you know that we publish release notes for Edge web platform changes?
This is relatively new, and we haven't made much noise, but hopefully that's useful!
https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/web-platform/release-notes/138
"Suppressing the web is a choice — Apple's choice — and not one that we need to feel gratitude toward."
@slightlyoff on
https://infrequently.org/2025/06/the-ghost-of-christmas-past/
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn announcement trailer hype train!
NL: Volgens politieke duiders was Wilders’ deelname aan het kabinet ‘amateuristisch’. Volgens politieke leiders is hij ‘weggelopen van zijn verantwoordelijkheid’. [Maar als] we onze oude bril vervangen, zien we dat onbestuurbaarheid altijd al zijn strategie was.
State of CSS 2025!
https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-css/2025
