Checking out the listed web / desktop #apps for #Mastodon most of them are really underwhelming. They even fail to describe on why one should use them. I didn't find a single desktop app which was worth installing, just from the information provided on their webpage. Multiaccount usage is irrelevant to me, for now.
With the #webapps I am now briefly trying out #phanpy#tooty#statuzer#trunksapp#elk and #mastodeck
A while ago I found a link to a European(German?) company that had created a series of privacy preserving online apps as an alternative to Google and others. I sadly lost that and can't recall the company. I think that perhaps @aral posted it? Anyone know who it might be?
#WebApps#Privacy#Cybersecurity#OpenWeb: "The problem with in-app browsers is that they play by a different set of rules from standalone browsers. As noted by OWA in its 62-page submission [PDF] to regulators:
They override the user's choice of default browser
They raise tangible security and privacy harms
They stop the user from using their ad-blockers and tracker blockers
Their default browsers privacy and security settings are not shared
They are typically missing web features
They typically have many unique bugs and issues
The user's session state is not shared so they are booted out of websites they have logged into in their default browser
-They provide little benefit to users
They create significant work and often break third-party websites
They don't compete as browsers
They confuse users and today function as dark patterns
Since around 2016, software engineers involved in web application development started voicing concerns about in-app browsers at some of the companies using them. But it wasn't until around 2019 when Google engineer Thomas Steiner published a blog post about Facebook's use of in-app browsers in its iOS and Android apps that the privacy and choice impact of in-app browsers began to register with a wider audience." https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/inapp_browsers/
Does anyone use the "g" + letter combination keyboard shortcuts? I'm wondering where its origin are from. Also made a quick comparison table of them for Pinafore, Mastodon, X and Elk (Phanpy doesn't support them).
Nice! Web Apps are here to stay! iOS 17.4 will still support them. I'm really glad Apple came to this decision as it would break my whole workflow and would make two of my web apps less nice.
Magento, a company based in Berlin offering hosting and e-commerce platform, posted a video illustrating to their EU customers the significant impact of removing PWA support in iOS 17.4 on their services.
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are still disabled for EU users in #iOS 17.4 beta 2. But now there's a new pop-up. The pop-up somehow indicates that PWAs are disabled intentionally, rather than being a bug.
It will be a major blow for EU users if iOS 17.4 is released without PWA support. Many major European companies have already converted their native iOS apps into PWAs, mainly to skip the unnecessary overhead imposed by the App Store, such as app distribution and the App Review.
Fantastic post on (levels of maturity) in managing performance, by @slightlyoff
> Teams that reach top-level performance have management support at the highest level. Those managers assume engineers want to do a good job but have the wrong incentives and constraints, and it isn't the line engineer's job to define success — it's the job of management.