Reading List 261
- News o’the Week: Antitrust: European Commission opens investigations into Apple’s App Store rules – “The investigations concern in particular the mandatory use of Apple’s own proprietary in-app purchase system and restrictions on the ability of developers to inform iPhone and iPad users of alternative cheaper purchasing possibilities outside of apps.”
- Related: Apple Threatens to Move Basecamp’s New Email App to Trash – “Scrutiny of Apple’s App Store policies heats up as the company heads into its annual software conference.”
- Igalia Chat – Brian Kardell sits down with Jeremy Keith and Stuart Langridge to chat about rendering engine diversity, history and the health of the web browser ecosystem.
- Flow: A New Browser Engine by Sam Sneddon
- Safari 14 Beta Release Notes
- Make your PWA feel more like an app – some nice little tips for making it more ‘native’.
- CSS custom properties and the cascade by Jeremy Keith
- CSS Custom Properties Fail Without Fallback – Matthias Ott looks at what you can do about the issue Jeremy raises
- Hybrid positioning with CSS variables and max() by Lea Verou
- Warning—Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users – Tiktok on iOS caught stealing the contents of users’ clipboard every 2-3 keystrokes. “Now Apple’s welcome iOS 14 security and privacy changes have caught them red-handed still doing something they shouldn’t. Something they said was fixed.”
- Meaningful connectivity – Alliance for Affordable Internet pushes for its new standard: “We have meaningful connectivity when we can use the internet every day using an appropriate device with enough data and a fast connection.”
- Google blew a ten-year lead – “something happened at Google. I’m not sure what. But they stopped innovating on cloud software. Docs and Sheets haven’t changed in a decade. Google Drive remains impossible to navigate. Sharing is complicated.”
- SVGuitar – library to create beautiful SVG guitar chord charts directly in the browser
- Machine learning-generated Peanuts comics and an interesting rumination on what Art is: “In some ways, the model represents the disembodied essence of the Peanuts aesthetic, but do I have Charles Shulz soul? For many obvious reasons, I do not – this model knows nothing of the motivations, desires and intentions behind Charles Shulz and his works.”