@newstik@social.heise.de2026-01-19 23:53:57
@newstik@social.heise.de2026-01-19 23:53:57
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-01-23 18:47:30
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/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-21 15:50:03
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115933745141491485
Periodic reminder that despite relentless Chrome propaganda, a lot of innovation in web browsers comes from Mozilla and Apple.
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza2026-01-16 15:41:06
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…
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-01-17 20:38:54
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/
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-01-10 14:13:09
Each week, Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
Check out this week's selection, which includes
--Kids turn from cybercrime to real-world violent thefts,
--How retailers profit from crypto ATM scams,
--Integrated web browsers are insecure out of the box,
--An MIT railroad club led to modern-day hackers,…
@TFG@social.linux.pizza2026-01-16 06:23:56
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
@grork@mastodon.social2026-02-16 16:59:05
The year is 2032, and web browsers no longer have scroll bars because they literally no longer tell you long the content is because 50% of the scroll distance is… related content and chum boxes.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-03-18 18:01:41
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:
@compfu@mograph.social2026-01-14 07:15:49
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…
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-02-10 06:16:36
Introducing Just the Browser https://blog.corbin.io/post/805641962529177600/introducing-just-the-browser
@ELLIOTTCABLE@functional.cafe2026-02-08 22:44:39
Spent the day figuring out how to create macOS "web apps" from the command line (like old-school Fluid site-specific browsers, SSBs - accessed via the "Add to Dock" button in Safari.)
Here, have my shat-out half-AI-written script for this, since I couldn't find anybody else having done this after scouring the internet high and low:
@mrysav@social.linux.pizza2026-01-15 02:57:42
What the fuck is with web sites/ browsers asking for local network device access lately
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza2026-02-01 00:13:46
Ok, something other than politics for a minute. Browsers.
I started daily driving Gnome Web around the time the new Mozilla CEO announced the AI-heavy focus for the company going forward. I'm not having any problems with WebKit as a rendering engine, but I think the interface leaves a bit to be desired for my uses. Here's my complaints.
- The interface takes up too much screen real estate on small laptop screens
- Bookmarks are currently not even working for me
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@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-10 13:58:34
Found by Nick Bromley on the A11y Slack:
“In browse mode in web browsers, NVDA no longer treats controls with 0 width or height as invisible. This may make it possible to access previously inaccessible ‘screen reader only’ content on some websites.”
https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1
@pre@boing.world2026-02-02 12:33:00
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. 😦