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Demystifying Progressive Web Application Permission Systems
Mengxiao Wang, Guofei Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13563 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13563

Demystifying Progressive Web Application Permission Systems
Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) blend the advantages of web and native apps, offering features like offline access, push notifications, and installability. Beyond these, modern PWAs are increasingly granted system-level capabilities such as auto-start on login and shared context with native applications. However, their permission management remains poorly defined and inconsistently implemented across platforms and browsers. To investigate these gaps, we developed Permissioner, a cross-pla…

Good Morning #Canada
In the Ojibwe culture, a dreamcatcher is made with willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web and decorated with sacred items such as feathers or beads. Traditionally, dreamcatchers are hung over a cradle or bed as protection during sleep as Native Americans believed that at night the air was filled with dreams, both good and bad. Today, based on current events, we need numerous and bigger #Dreamcatchers to filter out the crap. I'm fortunate that the world's largest dreamcatcher, measuring 12.93 metres (over 42 feet) in diameter, is in my backyard, only 45 minutes north of where I live. It was created by Dale (Bobbie) Williams and located in Rama First Nation, Ontario, Canada, near Orillia. Williams was inspired to create it after learning the Guinness World Record holder for a dreamcatcher was in Europe and he felt it didn't meet the traditional definition. I think it had sausages hanging from it.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BigStuffInSmallTowns #RoadTrip
https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/worlds-largest-dream-catcher-aims-to-provide-powerful-energy-in-rama-8721002

webMCP: Efficient AI-Native Client-Side Interaction for Agent-Ready Web Design
D. Perera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09171 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09171

webMCP: Efficient AI-Native Client-Side Interaction for Agent-Ready Web Design
Current AI agents create significant barriers for users by requiring extensive processing to understand web pages, making AI-assisted web interaction slow and expensive. This paper introduces webMCP (Web Machine Context & Procedure), a client-side standard that embeds structured interaction metadata directly into web pages, enabling more efficient human-AI collaboration on existing websites. webMCP transforms how AI agents understand web interfaces by providing explicit mappings between page el…

Improving Context Fidelity via Native Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
Suyuchen Wang, Jinlin Wang, Xinyu Wang, Shiqi Li, Xiangru Tang, Sirui Hong, Xiao-Wen Chang, Chenglin Wu, Bang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13683

Improving Context Fidelity via Native Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
Large language models (LLMs) often struggle with context fidelity, producing inconsistent answers when responding to questions based on provided information. Existing approaches either rely on expensive supervised fine-tuning to generate evidence post-answer or train models to perform web searches without necessarily improving utilization of the given context. We propose CARE, a novel native retrieval-augmented reasoning framework that teaches LLMs to explicitly integrate in-context evidence wi…

Internet 3.0: Architecture for a Web-of-Agents with it's Algorithm for Ranking Agents
Rajesh Tembarai Krishnamachari, Srividya Rajesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04979 https:…

Internet 3.0: Architecture for a Web-of-Agents with it's Algorithm for Ranking Agents
AI agents -- powered by reasoning-capable large language models (LLMs) and integrated with tools, data, and web search -- are poised to transform the internet into a \emph{Web of Agents}: a machine-native ecosystem where autonomous agents interact, collaborate, and execute tasks at scale. Realizing this vision requires \emph{Agent Ranking} -- selecting agents not only by declared capabilities but by proven, recent performance. Unlike Web~1.0's PageRank, a global, transparent network of agent in…

SPARE: Securing Progressive Web Applications Against Unauthorized Replications
Sajib Talukder, Nur Imtiazul Haque, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07053 https…

SPARE: Securing Progressive Web Applications Against Unauthorized Replications
WebView applications are widely used in mobile applications to display web content directly within the app, enhancing user engagement by eliminating the need to open an external browser and providing a seamless experience. Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) further improve usability by combining the accessibility of web apps with the speed, offline capabilities, and responsiveness of native applications. However, malicious developers can exploit this technology by duplicating PWA web links to …

The reason why people left to Bluesky or never started on Mastodon in the first place is that it still feels like a clunky web app from 2015 (and native phone apps are broken in many waysj, plus being brigaded by the HOAs here is exactly a fun and welcoming experience.

#PhanpySocial changelog ✨
💬 More support for (upcoming) Mastodon v4.5's native quote posts
🐛 Bug fixes
(2 quick fix releases were made within hours, now should be fine)
🔗 https://phanpy.social/

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

»Minimal files config for a PWA:
This is the minimal set of files for a "progressive web app" to be installable on Android and iOS.«
Cool min example to develop PWA apps. This means that native tools for developing apps as smartphones are now also available under Firefox & Co.
🧑‍💻 https://github.com/chr15m/minima…

GitHub - chr15m/minimal-pwa: Minimal files + config for a PWA
Minimal files + config for a PWA. Contribute to chr15m/minimal-pwa development by creating an account on GitHub.

Help requested.
The new MacOS update makes the DVD player (the thing for SuperDrives - surprised they aren't Magic Drives, now that I think about it) janky as hell. This is a well-known issue, according to my perfunctory web searches. Drops to something like 5FPS. Works fine otherwise, but annoying.
Two questions: Does anyone know if this is this likely to be fixed? And if not, and also while we wait, is there a DVD player someone can recommend? VLC needs Rosetta and its UI has always been borderline unusable anyway. Yes, I tried it again, but it switched randomly from German to Spanish and had no navigation menu for the disk itself. I'm looking for something that can read the disk and works like the native DVD player, minus the jank. But maybe the jank is fundamental. That's really what I'm trying to find out.
For now, I'll use a non-updated Mac but I will want to update it at some point. Ironists need not remind me about my recent rant regarding updates.
Thanks all.

The only Irish learning app I really need is Mastodon 💖
https://mastodon.online/@caoimhin/115343150517678972

Explore, Listen, Inspect: Supporting Multimodal Interaction with 3D Surface and Point Data Visualizations
Sanchita S. Kamath, Aziz N. Zeidieh, JooYoung Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08554

Explore, Listen, Inspect: Supporting Multimodal Interaction with 3D Surface and Point Data Visualizations
Blind and low-vision (BLV) users remain largely excluded from three-dimensional (3D) surface and point data visualizations due to the reliance on visual interaction. Existing approaches inadequately support non-visual access, especially in browser-based environments. This study introduces DIXTRAL, a hosted web-native system, co-designed with BLV researchers to address these gaps through multimodal interaction. Conducted with two blind and one sighted researcher, this study took place over susta…