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Why is that iPad ad so gut-wrenchingly terrible?
https://shorts.stackingthebricks.com/apples-terrible-ipad-ad-shows-why-you-need-sales-safari/

Apple will make it easier for EU users to switch to Android and delete Safari https://www.engadget.com/apple-will-make-it-easier-for-eu-users-to-switch-to-android-and-delete-safari-113041250.html

Webkitの縦書きは2009年から始まっていたし、多くの電子書籍もWebkitベースのエンジンで始まってる。
今回の「縦書き対応」は、フォームの対応です。
https://www.publickey1.jp/blog/24/safari_174webkit.html

I keep hearing about Google paying Apple $20B/year to make it the default search engine in Safari. “They must make at least that much on search from Apple devices in order to justify the cost.”
This is wrong.
They must make at least that much from search OR from preventing others from eroding their monopsony. The REAL value is to prevent someone else from being the default.
It’s similar to regulatory capture, and we should tax the shit out of it.
(harnessing my inner …

Apple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024 end and is working on a more "user-friendly" way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025 (Jon Porter/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093355

Dear #Google
I will NEVER EVER switch to Chrome as my browser . Stop harassing me when I open gmail in Safari.
In other words FICK OFF!

Ab zum Arc-Browser: Leitender Safari-Designer verlässt Apple
Der zunehmend populäre unabhängige Browser-Hersteller hinter Arc bekommt prominenten Personalzugang: Ein zentraler Apple-Entwickler kommt an Bord.

One of the (first world) issues with the being an Icelandophile is following a ton of Icelanders and sometimes seeing links to Icelandic news stories which I’d like to read.
I’d have to copy the URL, open Safari, go to google translate, tap the website button, paste, tap go. A royal pain.
But I finally automated all that with Shortcuts.
Now I just hit the share button, choose the shortcut, and a webview opens with the Google translate page right there.
Small automa…

🍎 #Apple has released iOS 17.4. The version of iOS that can destroy people’s lives in the #EU! 😅

Microsoft: Neues Teams für Web nun auch für Firefox, Safari – und unter Linux
Das neue Teams für Web von Microsoft ist nicht mehr nur für Edge und Chrome verfügbar, sondern auch für Firefox und Safari. Zudem läuft es unter Linux.

Ah, the joys of modern computing...
my iMac is making noises that sound like notifications from some social network ... and it may be *somewhere* in the 178 tabs I currently have open in Firefox... or maybe it's in the dozen tabs I have open in Safari... or the 20-ish in Chrome...
... or maybe it's in the 22 apps that I have open in MacOS. 🤔
Thankfully it's not (yet) too annoying...

Vimlike: Promising Safari Extension With Vim Keys: #Safari

Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Learn how to delete your history, cookies, and cache in Settings.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/105082

Source: Apple is testing new Safari features including more advanced content blocking and an AI-powered Intelligent Search tool, expected to debut in 2024 (Marko Zivkovic/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/0

Safari Flaw Can Expose iPhone Users in the EU to Tracking
https://www.mysk.blog/2024/04/28/safari-tracking/

“Hanging punctuation in CSS ”
https://adactio.com/journal/21027
I wanted to avoid an additional selector to undo the style, but Safari 17.3 Does not exclude any in the `:not()`:
```
html :not(pre, input, select, textarea) {
hanging-punctuation: first last;
}

honestly i might just ditch css transitions altogether and do the tweening myself, like a proper game engine (still keeping css transforms though). more control, less frustration. i've wasted too much time on this (it works fine on safari & chrome, acts weird on firefox)

Performance improvements in Safari.
1% here, 0.3% there and six months later you have a 30% boost on a mature codebase.
https://webkit.org/blog/15249/optimizing-webkit-safari-for-speedometer-3-0/

Für Suche in Safari: Google zahlte Apple 2022 wohl 20 Milliarden US-Dollar
In einem Papier, das Google dem US-Justizministerium übergab, findet sich eine interessante Zahl. Bislang hatte man über die Milliarden an Apple nur spekuliert.

Vanaf donderdag werkt veel tech anders. Hoe EU-regels Chrome, WhatsApp en iOS veranderen (Tweakers).
https://tweakers.net/reviews/11892/hoe-eu-regels-chrome-whatsapp-en-ios-veranderen.html

Huh, is Chromium broken (works in Safari and Firefox, shows gibberish on Chromium-based browsers)?
(from the comment section at the end of https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2008/how_can_c_programs_be_so_reliable.html)

@scope is now live in both Chrome and Safari! This is huge for #CSS. The remaining days of BEM are numbered!
https://keithjgrant.com/posts/2023/04/scoped-css-is-back/

Ali Farka Touré  “Cherie” Feat. Oumou Sangaré
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ali-farka-toure-cherie-oumou-sangare/
From the posthumous album Voyageur, a collection of previously unheard songs from throughout his illustrious career, “Cherie,” the second …

Safari Flaw Can Expose iPhone Users in the EU to Tracking
https://www.mysk.blog/2024/04/28/safari-tracking/

I know that macOS / Safari displayed the `alt` text for broken images through Safari 17.0 (visually clipping as necessary).
Testing in macOS 14.4.1 / Safari 17.4.1, however, shows me that `alt` text is no longer displayed.
Has anyone else noticed this regression?
#Safari #accessibility

Dear users of Apple devices,
Soon, due to restrictions imposed by iOS, you will only be able to use my web apps without push notifications and without the convenience of adding shortcuts to your home screen.
Complaints about the limited functionality of web apps on iOS can be submitted at https://www.apple.com/feedback…

@… Have you ever noticed variation in the tap strength required to click an iPhone? Sometimes a gentle (or accidental) brush with the side of your finger works, sometimes a firm straight down strike with the tip of your finger is required. Happens in Safari for a few predictable requests. Happens seemingly randomly in iOS Vivaldi. Maybe only on my tiny SE2020? I don…

2021 retro-link! https://furbo.org/2021/08/25/jsc-my-new-best-friend/ - jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.

Today I learned that Safari can’t understand compound extensions in the accept attribute of file inputs.
So, for example…
<input
type="file"
accept=".kitten.databases.tar.gz"
>
… fails. So you have to do:
<input
type="file"
accept=".gz"
>
(Which, of course, opens the person up to more chances of selecting the wrong file.)
🤷‍♂️

@scope is now live in both Chrome and Safari! This is huge for #CSS. The remaining days of BEM are numbered!
https://keithjgrant.com/posts/2023/04/scoped-css-is-back/

US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Safari wurde 60 Prozent schneller: Was hinter Apples Speedometer-Tests steckt
Das WebKit-Team frohlockt: Safari sei zwischen den Versionen 17.0 und 17.4 insgesamt 60 Prozent schneller geworden. Doch ein genauer Blick auf die Zahlen lohnt.

"The DMA requires that all browsers have equality, meaning that Apple can’t favor Safari and WebKit over third-party browser engines. Therefore, because it can’t offer Home Screen web apps support for third-party browsers, it also can’t offer support via Safari." — https://9to5mac.com/2024/…

Perhaps I should message Putt Putt Noodle to tell them that their new menu PDF doesn't render correctly in Safari 😅

Apropos of the CyberTruck crash image, I hope one of the features Apple adds in the next iOS is AI image/text detection. They already detect text and subjects so should be a prime candidate to do on-device.
Would be great to have that in apps and in Safari.
(The CyberTruck crash image is still fucking funny.)

"Save complete Web page".
Firefox: Garbled.
Chrome: Garbled.
Safari: Perfect.
We have a winner.

Hey Safari/macOS users…
When I have a PDF embedded in a page via iframe (eg: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/03/csunatc-wcagmire.html) and the mouse cursor moves into the bottom center of the container, I get four clickable controls (zoom out, zoom in, ink bottle…

バージョン判定、これになるよ
> Mozilla / 5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit / 537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome / 51.0.2704.103 Safari / 537.36

Dear users of Apple devices,
Soon, due to restrictions imposed by iOS, you will only be able to use my web apps without push notifications and without the convenience of adding shortcuts to your home screen.
Complaints about the limited functionality of web apps on iOS can be submitted at https://www.apple.com/feedback…

My reading of this is that for this (truly horrible) attack to get you, you'd need to run an app in which it's embedded for an extended period of time on your computer. So the bad guys could hack me if I downloaded an app from a sketchy source (unlikely) or they managed to hack any one of Adobe or Mozilla or Microsoft Office or Chrome or Safari or Apple Music or Emacs or YouTube or or or … (less unlikely).

Remember back when the @… macOS Safari extension used to work? I have to restart Safari several times a day just to log into a website. Is this just me?

@… Seems like you might be interested in this?
https://typo.social/@letterror/112169065606969860

@… Safari ok, Chrome (not logged in) has the error (attached below), Firefox (logged in) has the error. Both FF and Chrome work fine in incognito mode.
I disabled all my Chrome extensions and it still exhibits the error—localStorage has a typescript value in there but sessionStorage, cookies, service workers are all empty.
Let me know if I can h…

I have conflicting feelings; I'd like to know yours, delightful community of misfits, weirdos, and worse.
Here we go:
Vertical Tabs ??? (in a browser: #Firefox, #Opera #Safari

It works fine on Safari, but doesn’t work on popups like this one on apps like PS App and GameTrack. 🤦‍♂️ #Passkey #PasskeyNightmare #PasskeysSaga

#apple and #adversarial #compliance

Modeling beam propagation in a moving nonlinear medium
Ryan Hogan, Giulia Marcucci, Akbar Safari, A. Nicholas Black, Boris Braverman, Jeremy Upham, Robert W. Boyd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04238

Clear the history, cache, and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
https://support.apple.com/en-us/105082

The problem is that "allowing home screen #webapps with Safari but not third-party browser engines might cause #Apple to violate the rules."
"The #DigitalMarketsAct targets

@… Working ok for me on macOS Safari 17.4 (19618.1.15.11.12) using iCloud Private Relay (currently going through Cloudflare according to reported IP address.)

Same on iOS 17.5 (21F5048f) Safari with iCPR going through Fastly.

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
·
3h
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
Beach boy Jared Kushner’s plan to turn Gaza into a surf safari sounds far-fetched. But God only knows what will happen if the Sloop Don T sets sail again in 2025. …

TIL `scrollbar-gutter: stable;`
It reserves space on the screen for the scrollbar so the page doesn't jump on scrollbar appearing / disappearing. I've started using the Transitions API and this CSS property is really clutch with Transitions.
Waiting on Safari to ship support though.
(75% support) https://<…

Holy Fuck – Safari
[from «LP», 2007]
#FediRadio

Apples Standard-Apps – gut genug für alles? | Mac & i-Podcast
Fast 50 Apple-Apps liefert iOS mit. Wir besprechen populäre Exemplare von Notizen über Karten bis Safari, auch "Sherlocking" und Regulierung sind Thema.
…

Y’know. I really LIKE Safari.
But here’s the thing: I LOVE having alternatives. There was a point where I was running like 7 different browsers and my fave was “OmniWeb”.
I want there to be good alternatives this constant Tech Decay (“enshittification”) of all the browsers out there. JFC. Just make a browser that works and protects people’s privacy. That seems like it would give you plenty to do already.

As a gentleman of a certain age it's probably time I knew this
From: @…
https://flipboard.social/@sidewalksafari/…

Skattestaten (og NAV) får skryt for web-greiene sine. Jeg tror det sier noe om det generelle nivået.
Når jeg bruker Safari og Ÿnsker å så skattegreiene så får jeg fŸlgende feilmelding:

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--FCC fines telco giants $200 million for sharing customers' location data without Consent
--UnitedHealth breach began with Citrix flaw exploit,
--Telegram yanks and then restores Ukraine security agency access,
--TikTok ban could extend CapCut video editor,
--Canadian lawmakers in an uproar over Chinese hacker targeting,
--Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps last year,
--Apple leaves EU Safari users exposed to web tracking,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/fcc-fines-telco-giants-200-million-sharing-customers-location-data-without-consent

🚨 GREAT ANSWER ALERT 🚨
The snippet here is perfect 🤌🏻 Want to know the answer on mobile safari? Load it up and go!
https://stackoverflow.com/a/72124984/6212

This is beautiful!
https://tapbots.social/@mark/112281528244929685

@… yesterday I noticed a supper annoying bug.
1. iPad app, start composing new post
2. Bring safari or smth else to a split screen
3. Compose view is gone forever, draft not saved, lost work.

My reading of this is that for this (truly horrible) attack to get you, you'd need to run an app in which it's embedded for an extended period of time on your computer. So the bad guys could hack me if I downloaded an app from a sketchy source (unlikely) or they managed to hack any one of Adobe or Mozilla or Microsoft Office or Chrome or Safari or Apple Music or Emacs or YouTube or or or … (less unlikely).

Remember back when the @… macOS Safari extension used to work? I have to restart Safari several times a day just to log into a website. Is this just me?

Clear the history, cache, and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
https://support.apple.com/en-us/105082

Kudos to #retrospring for being the first website I’ve seen supporting notifications on Mobile Safari!

@… Hi Jen, is there a page that list which versions of Safari are still supported vs the ones that are end of life? I'm running 16.6.1

@… Safari ok, Chrome (not logged in) has the error (attached below), Firefox (logged in) has the error. Both FF and Chrome work fine in incognito mode.
I disabled all my Chrome extensions and it still exhibits the error—localStorage has a typescript value in there but sessionStorage, cookies, service workers are all empty.
Let me know if I can h…

Native keyboard scrollable areas are not coming to the next Chrome (again):
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40113891#comment63
The gag is that I keep updating this post by adding more question marks and confirming Safari appears to be doing nothing:
<…

#apple and #adversarial #compliance

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--FCC fines telco giants $200 million for sharing customers' location data without Consent
--UnitedHealth breach began with Citrix flaw exploit,
--Telegram yanks and then restores Ukraine security agency access,
--TikTok ban could extend CapCut video editor,
--Canadian lawmakers in an uproar over Chinese hacker targeting,
--Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps last year,
--Apple leaves EU Safari users exposed to web tracking,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/fcc-fines-telco-giants-200-million-sharing-customers-location-data-without-consent

is iCloud having big time issues?
I cannot connect and Safari won't QUIT!

Native keyboard scrollable areas are not coming to the next Chrome (again):
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40113891#comment63
The gag is that I keep updating this post by adding more question marks and confirming Safari appears to be doing nothing:
<…

Google doubling down on being assholes
https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/112299873624857965

VR-Video und 3D auf der Vision Pro: WebXR mau, Spezial-App gut
Apples Safari-Browser unter visionOS unterstützt zwar WebXR, tut dies aber nur recht experimentell. Eine Bezahl-App schafft Abhilfe.
https://www.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Tito Puente:
🎵 Safari
#TitoPuente
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Pxp3yzPyK5uYvhBKmQTP8

Fast MRI Reconstruction Using Deep Learning-based Compressed Sensing: A Systematic Review
Mojtaba Safari, Zach Eidex, Chih-Wei Chang, Richard L. J. Qiu, Xiaofeng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00241

EU-Auswahldialog auf iPhones: Browser Brave freut sich über Download-Zuwachs
Der von der EU vorgeschriebene Auswahldialog in iOS 17.4 zeigt laut dem Browser-Hersteller Wirkung. Nutzer würden sich für Safari-Alternativen interessieren.

Using this CSS with broken image ref:
```
::before {
content: url(foo) / "Panda";
}
```
Safari / macOS / iPadOS does not show the alt.
Until you turn on VO. Or turn it off. But it goes away if you refresh.
More accurately, it resizes the placeholder; if your alt is small enough to fit *then* it shows.
Attached video shows it in action.
So. What the deal is?
Test page:

@… @… This is Sonoma 14.4 (23E214) with Safari 17.4 (19618.1.15.11.12)

A product-limit estimator of the conditional survival function when cure status is partially known
Wende C. Safari, Ignacio L\'opez-de-Ullibarri, M. Amalia J\'acome
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07022

Using this CSS with broken image ref:
```
::before {
content: url(foo) / "Panda";
}
```
Safari / macOS / iPadOS does not show the alt.
Until you turn on VO. Or turn it off. But it goes away if you refresh.
More accurately, it resizes the placeholder; if your alt is small enough to fit *then* it shows.
Attached video shows it in action.
So. What the deal is?
Test page:

Quantum Fluctuations Suppress the Critical Fields in BaCo$_2$(AsO$_4$)$_2$
Shiva Safari, William Bateman-Hemphill, Asimpunya Mitra, F\'elix Desrochers, Emily Z. Zhang, Lubuna Shafeek, Austin Ferrenti, Tyrel M. McQueen, Arkady Shekhter, Zolt\'an K\"oll\"o, Yong Baek Kim, B. J. Ramshaw, K. A. Modic
https://arxiv.…

@… @… Excuse the chipping in but Phanpy on macOS Chrome does render the half-star correctly. Even weirder, if you use Safari's web inspector on the element (under Phanpy), it also shows…

Chrome maybe finally pulled off focusable scrolling regions:
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/keyboard-focusable-scrollers
Granted, its example for what devs had to do, and still have to do for Safari, creates a WCAG violation, but that’s kind of on…

Installing 17.4 RC. Will this be the end of #PasskeysSaga? I hope they have fixed Safari. 🤞
#Apple #iOS #Passkey

It feels like #enshittification is an inevitable result of browsers gaining popularity.
Back in the old days, when I was still doing some WebDev, #Microsoft had a monopoly with its #InternetExplorer. It really sucked because they didn't care about web standards. For me, it meant testing my website under #Mozilla, #Opera (back when it used the Presto engine) and then adding awful hacks to make it work under IE (Safari was practically nonexistent in Poland). But the remaining browsers had their small foothold.
Then came #Google with its #Chrome, and we were really enthusiastic about it. Little did I know what was to come later. After all, it was a reasonably portable browser, with an open source engine, that followed standards. On top of that, it had a good chance of ending Microsoft's monopoly — and that was great news, because it meant that one day we wouldn't have to worry about compatibility with IE.
So there came a time when Chrome took over a major share of the browser market. Microsoft replaced IE with Edge. Eventually all the main browsers were using WebKit, Blink or a related engine which made life easier for WebDevs. Mozilla's small market share diminished even further.
Then things went to shit. Google showed its true colors, and abused its monopolist position in every possible way. Standards compliance ended up meaning very little, when the monopolist controls the standards. Being open source helps but there's only as much that volunteers can do when dealing with a corporate giant.
One positive aspect of this is that as GAFAM keeps shooting at their feet, Firefox started gaining popularity again. And it's a much better browser than it used to be back in the day. And what happens next?
Of course, as soon as Mozilla notices they're gaining market share, they're starting their own enshittification. Instead of embracing the users who appreciate what Firefox is right now, they are being greedy and trying to lure more people with buzzwords. This isn't going to end well.

Experimental demonstration of the shadow of a laser beam
Raphael A. Abrahao, Henri P N Morin, Jordan T R Page, Akbar Safari, Robert W Boyd, Jeff S Lundeen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08050