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🎉 Getting Started With The Popover API
#web

Getting Started With The Popover API — Smashing Magazine
What happens if you rebuild a single tooltip using the browser’s native model without the aid of a library? The Popover API turns tooltips from something you simulate into something the browser actually understands. Opening and closing, keyboard interaction, Escape handling, and much of the accessibility now come from the platform itself, not from ad-hoc JavaScript.

I started using MeTube which is a web-based front-end for yt-dlp. It runs on my NAS and I can easily use a browser to feed it URLs that then get dumped directly to a share on my network.
https://github.com/alexta69/metube

You may not need that “AI” voice thing that reads your web pages aloud to users. It comes free in the browser:
• Edge’s Read Aloud (Ctrl Shift U),
• Firefox’s and Chrome’s reader mode text-to-speech,
• Safari’s Speech feature.
Stop adding trackers to your sites. Don’t add WCAG risk.

#Sunstone #browser grew a couple of features over the past two days.
- History
This is in the same `places` database as bookmarks. For the time being, there is no interface for browsing history or deleting entries. I've added two settings, max_entries and max_days. Every fiftee…

cssDOOM
Pure DOOM game in CSS that can be played on any web browser.
🎮 #doom #gaming

cssDOOM
DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

I started using MeTube which is a web-based front-end for yt-dlp. It runs on my NAS and I can easily use a browser to feed it URLs that then get dumped directly to a share on my network.
https://github.com/alexta69/metube

Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI web browser for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-0…

I started using MeTube which is a web-based front-end for yt-dlp. It runs on my NAS and I can easily use a browser to feed it URLs that then get dumped directly to a share on my network.
https://github.com/alexta69/metube

Just a web #browser, please
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Just-a-web-browser-please-11143198.html

Yay, first shot of Auto Encrypt¹ running a HTTPS web server at a Web Number (IP address).
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
Next step: find out why some of the tests are failing on the Linux box, fix, and implement Web Numbers support in Kitten² and Catalyst³.
¹

They actually show Google.com being used in Silent Hill from 06 (rare in movies, a lot of times it's a made up search engine and phony looking computer).
But then he goes to the ghost town website, and the URL is ghosttownsamerica.web. 😂
#SilentHill #movies

Perplexitys KI-Browser Comet schlägt auf iOS ein
Mit Verzögerung kommt Comet auf iPhones und iPads. Die KI soll sich für den Nutzer durchs Web klicken, greift dafür aber offenbar tief in die Trickkiste.
https://www.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115991430368350285
for some inscrutable reason, jwz gets a lot of people googling up answers for him like he doesn’t know what a web browser is…

I went to the appflowy web site and read “Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI” and I have never closed a browser tab so fast in my life.

es ist jetzt 9:27. #servicetoot
https://uhr.ptb.de/

https://justthebrowser.com/
"Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you just the browser and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for com…

Another nice to have feature just dropped in #Sunstone browser, access to WebKit's built in Web Inspector. This is currently tied to the context menu that pops up when you right click on a web page. You can choose to either just open the inspector or else inspect the element that was just clicked on.
A little bit of exploration showed that the inspector is just as fully featured as…

When you are a Swift godot user, every day is xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-emscripten-target-support-for-swift/85310

[Pitch] Emscripten Target Support for Swift
Swift already runs in the browser today. Using the WASI target with JavaScriptKit and browser-side WASI polyfills, the community has built projects ranging from ElementaryUI (a SwiftUI-inspired web framework) to real-time graphics with WebGPU. The WebAssembly vision document noted that "browser-specific use cases remain to be addressed in a separate document." This pitch proposes adding the Emscripten target (wasm32-unknown-emscripten) to the Swift toolchain, complementing the existing WASI ta…

Introducing Just the Browser https://blog.corbin.io/post/805641962529177600/introducing-just-the-browser

Introducing Just the Browser
Modern web browsers are increasingly focused on features beyond the core browsing experience, many of which just end up as distractions. Chrome gives you coupon codes while shopping. Microsoft Edge...

Added information on HTML, CSS, and Markdown Fragments to the Kitten Components and Fragments tutorial, including a little TypeScript type declarations file you can add to your projects so you don’t get type warnings for them when you import them in your projects:
https://k…

Want to get rid of unwanted stuff in your webbrowser - like telemetry or #ai
There's a git project for FF, Chrome and Edge and a website:
https://github.com/corbindavenport/jus

The vOICe web app now supports optional right-left-scanning: https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm?r2l Right-to-left scanning can be useful when visually reading Hebrew or Arabic print. You may have to run the web app twice because of browser caching while upda…

One thing which is annoying about Vivaldi and also Firefox and presumably also all the other Android web browsers is the way the "Add To Homescreen" button works on pages like Mastodon which are Progressive Web Apps.
If you add the shortcut to the homescreen then it opens as a WPA which means the browser stuff is all gone and hidden. No back button. No way to bookmark. No way to launch a link in a new browser window etc.
Ought to be two separate buttons for "Add a link to the homepage" vs "Add this app as an app to the homepage" but there isn't.
You can get around this by turning on airplane mode and adding a link to the error page to the homescreeen, which then works as a link to the website in the browser, not a WPA app, when you're online again.
I did this to the links I use with Vivaldi before I realized it's proprietary and so will not do.
Trying to rebuild them as Firefox links again and sadly something is broken now. Won't add the error page. Tells me the pixel launcher is crashing.
So I can't have the old web bookmark links to pages in WPA apps. Boo. 😦

Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems
The web platform is way more powerful than most developers realize — and every year it quietly gains new superpowers.
🧑‍💻 https://dev.to/sylwia-lask/stop-instal

Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems
The web platform is way more powerful than most developers realize — and every year it quietly gains...

Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you "just the browser" and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for companies and other organizations.
https://justthebrowser.com/

😂 Only those who has done maps stuff knows this (tho’ not the hydrogen atom part)

Ai2 launches MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4B and 8B parameter sizes, operating via browser screenshots rather than parsing HTML (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/data/ai2-releases-molmowe…

Just upgraded https://peertube.iridescent.nz to the latest version - 8.1.3 - Aotearoa NZ's own Peertube instance is up-to-date.

#Sunstone #Browser got a few nice quality of life improvements today.
- A slim progress bar at the top of the WebView to display loading progress
- Page zoom via keyboard shortcuts. Currently there is no user feedback to display the zoom level because I still need to decide where t…

DuckDuckGo ist eine wichtige Alternative für viele, die Google meiden wollen. 🦆
Was Webseiten-Betreiber dabei oft vergessen: DDG hat keinen eigenen Index, sondern nutzt die API von Microsoft.
Wer also für DuckDuckGo optimieren will, muss technisch gesehen für Bing optimieren. Ignoriert man die Bing Webmaster Tools, verschenkt man Potenzial.
Wer Sichtbarkeit im gesamten Web will, darf Microsoft nicht links liegen lassen. Unabhängig davon, welchen Browser man selbst nutzt. 🤷‍…

oooh look what i just found:-
Transform Images Into Sound in the browser
"SpectroTrace converts any image into audio using a fascinating technique called additive synthesis. When you play the generated sound through a spectrogram analyzer, the original image magically reappears." 🦟
https://www.spectrotrace.org/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CyReVolt/116261204236818661
Truth be told: Today's systems are nested runtimes.
Servers be like: firmware runtime Linux cloud runtime
Clients be like: firmware runtime Linux web browser
That is, th…

I just published my newest project that visualizes #orgdown (#Emacs #orgmode syntax) files in a web browser:

Quake 3 in browser — Play Quake III Multiplayer in Your Browser
No install step. Click play, pick a server, and jump straight into a live Quake 3 match.
🎮 #gaming

Play Quake III Arena in Your Browser | Q3JS
Play Quake III Arena instantly with no install. Q3JS brings the classic arena shooter to the web with WebAssembly and online servers.

Split view in #chromium 144 is a very nice feature.

#Sunstone browser now has a start page, with default search provided by DuckDuckGo. All of Sunstone's internal pages are going to be linked through the menu bar provided in the default page template. I am no web designer, but I've taken time to make the design responsive and hopefully nice and cleanly functional. Shrink the page down past a certain level and the sidebar becomes a top…

"For years, longtime #Firefox users have hung on while #Mozilla has pursued random directions, added advertiser-friendly features, and tried repeatedly to jump onto the AI bandwagon. But all those users want is a reliable, standards-compliant browser that gives them control over their web exp…

IIRC, Shadcn is a Vercel gig, so of course it’s both spaghetti code and wrong.
“The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button”
https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/

The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?

Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-project-mariner-team-we…

Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze
As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.

It's Sunday - with a shot of my favorite web browser.
#lynx #kitty

Instead of firing up the sloggy web browser to roll some dice and look up a translation I just launched Poliedros and Dialect. They totally did what I needed and nothing else. Nice.
#gnome #flatpak

«Firefox 148 führt Sanitizer-API ein – neuer Standard gegen XSS-Angriffe:
Mit Firefox 148 hält eine lang erwartete Web-API Einzug in den Browser-Alltag - Die Sanitizer-API standardisiert die Bereinigung von HTML-Code direkt beim Einfügen ins DOM und soll Webentwicklern den Schutz vor Cross-Site-Scripting deutlich erleichtern»
XSS ist immer noch ein aktuelles Thema, dass mMn von den meisten WebDev's nicht wirklich wahr genommen wird.
🦊

Firefox 148 führt Sanitizer-API ein – neuer Standard gegen XSS-Angriffe
Firefox 148 bringt die standardisierte Sanitizer-API mit setHTML() – ein einfacher Schutz gegen XSS-Lücken für Webentwickler.

This looks very useful but I‘m reluctant to share this. Every computer tip that is just „open an admin terminal and enter this command that executes stuff right from a github URL“ is dangerous. Even if that one is OK - it teaches people that this kind of thing is not a super red flag for malware exploits. https://toot.communi…

It is silly and ludicrous to lump privacy-preserving webpage translation with GenAI and chatbots and LLMs. While I don't _regularly_ use the translation feature, I absolutely appreciate that the alternative would be something like Google Translate, a materially worse outcome. And, as others have pointed out, bundling a translation tool into the browser makes the web more accessible for people who do not know English. That is a good thing!

Disable JavaScript — How to disable JavaScript in your browser
Nowadays almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs arbitrary code, through the web browser, on the visitor's computer. It is supposed to make web pages functional for specific purposes but it has proven its potential to cause significant harm to users time and time again. […]
✋ …

Disable JavaScript
Instructions on how to disable (deactivate) JavaScript in web browser and why.

«PWAs ohne Browser – eine Fingerübung im Vibe-Coding:
PWA steht für Progressive Web App und bezeichnet eine moderne Webanwendung, die wie eine native App aussieht und funktioniert, aber über den Webbrowser aufgerufen wird.»
Mit PWA werde ich mich auch noch beschäftigen. Gut hat nun @… einen Artikel geschrieben und dies ist sicherlich schon ein g…

PWAs ohne Browser – eine Fingerübung im Vibe-Coding
Vibe-Coding ist eines der derzeitigen Schlagworte auch im Bereich Open Source. KDE-Entwickler Ken Vermette hat bei seinen ersten Versuchen an einem Wochenende…

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…

Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …

The TC39 Temporal proposal is coming along. It’s meant to replace JavaScript’s date API:
https://www.igalia.com/2026/03/13/Temporal-Reaches-Stage-4.html
Jason Williams’ talk about this at State of the Browser is now online:

Temporal Reaches Stage 4 | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutio…

I've renamed my web browser project from SWB to Sunstone.
The sunstone was a translucent mineral prized by Viking navigators because it had a natural property that polarized light, making it possible to see through the haze and find the sun on a hazy day - quite common in the North Atlantic. I liked the connection to a primitive navigation tool.
Some code progress:
- Downloads are displayed in a grid form inside a popup menu with a progress bar
- I've added a (n…

»Invidious - Wie funktioniert das eigentlich?«
— von @…
Nicht immer läuft @… reibungslos, je nach Instanz. Deswegen nutze ich es über den Web Browser App-on @…

Invidious - Wie funktioniert das eigentlich?
Hier versuche ich einen kleinen Einblick zu geben wie Invidious im Hintergrund funktioniert.

#Sunstone #browser grew a vertical tab bar over the past two days. Tabs appear in the first pane in the sidebar. There are a couple of limitations so far. Tabs can't yet be reordered from this pane, and if you reorder your tabs using either the tab overview or the regular horizontal tab b…

“Honoring Mobile OS Text Size”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/honoring-mobile-os-text-size.html
Looks at the new HTML thing proposed from CSSWG (yeah, not confusing) and tries to merge Safari’s propriety hack with Google’s CSSWG proposal and Canary impl…

Honoring Mobile OS Text Size
If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of affairs in the three…

A little work done on my web browser. I'm working on bookmarks, and instead of storing them in a text file like I originally planned I'm going to try out storing them in an sqlite database. Some of that infrastructure is in place. Bookmarks are going to be tag based rather than in folders, so you can tag a bookmark with multiple categories and it will show up in all of them. I think that's a better way of organizing them than the traditional folder view.
Downloads are worki…

Hier noch ein FediTipp, wie ihr anonymisierter Links zu Xitter hier im Fediverse und sonst im Web teilen könnt.
Wenn ihr aus welchen Gründen auch immer die hier teilt, dann nutzt doch bitte dafür eine der Nitter¹ Anbitern im Web. Da gibt es zB XCancel² für den gibt es auch ein Browser Add-on³ für Firefox (und seine Abkömmlingen) gibt.
1) https://nitter…

Repository is now public. Right now this is just called Swb, or Simple Web Browser. Open to naming suggestions.
Swb is being written in Vala using WebKitGtk. I've been daily driving Gnome Web since Mozilla's new CEO decided that Mozilla should be an AI company, but I'm cheap (actually quite poor) and have a crappy laptop with a small, low-resolution screen and I hate that there's no way to reduce the size of the interface. That was the original motivation, anyway.

«Unternehmen erhöhen ihre Sicherheitsausgaben — #Browser werden zum Hauptziel von #Cyber-#Kriminalität:
Der #Web

I mentioned a little while back that I was considering starting a new browser project using WebKitGtk. The result, written in Vala, is nearing minimum viability. Right now it's nothing special, just a simple tabbed browser that's missing a lot of features, but the skeleton is good and you already get some goodies that Gnome Web doesn't give you:
- Ability to hide the tab bar
- Ability to hide the address bar and other controls
- When the tab bar is hidden, am overv…

I made some progress towards handling downloads in SWB. It took quite a bit of reading the docs to figure out where and how to trigger downloads when simply clicking on a linked file that WebKit can't display. Not much of it was obvious.
Exploring names. I kind of like Sunstone, but theres a library that uses the name to implement a REST api. If anyone has any suggestions for what to call a new web browser, fire away please.

Some progress on Simple Web Browser today.
- Forward/Back/Reload implemented
- Control buttons are sensitive only when they do something (ie, forward button is greyed out if you can't go forward)
- Added a shortcut to focus the address bar
- Change text in address bar and window title when changing tabs
https://codeber…

My hobby this week is deleting Google Off My Phone.
So I #grapheneOS #degoogle #android #blog