It is interesting that this is something that could be controlled in software … all this time … and won’t come to the M1 or M2 machines. I wonder what discussions happened to get this concession. Did the dings in reviews matter? Product returns? Qualtrics surveys? https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112038734458173912
@joesteel maybe there is some minor new hardware detail that enables this but they hadn't gotten the software side of that together in time for last fall? 🤷♂️
@joesteel a cool outlier that I haven’t seen/heard mentioned in any of this conversation is stop motion animation shot in stereo with a single camera, first done in Coraline. Are you familiar?
I’m very concerned about Apple breaking the web by intentionally removing PWA features in the EU.
If we assume good intentions and the root issue is merely one of regulatory deadlines—an almost $3 trillion (USD) market cap company would make a plan to work with third-party browsers to add that compatibility back in (or at the very least provide APIs for others to do so).
But as far as I can tell they’re just removing the feature (only in the EU??) with no plan at all to add it back? yikes
@zachleat a good faith response would be to ask for Safari to be allowed to be different from the other browsers in this way while they work out the technical details for other browsers to do the same, but the way they've chosen is spiteful and shitty and will punish users in the EU (including potential data loss) and developers who built these assuming iOS would support them
Grey in HTML and CSS should be defined as #767676 instead of #808080 as the latter fails contrast with white while the former (just) meets contrast with both, black and white.
It’s not great contrast, but it’s another place where we failed to get good defaults in browsers.
If this is true, I am so disappointed in Wordpress (where I used to work). They were the leader in customer support, keeping it all in-house and requiring all employees to spend time doing support. If they really just hooked a LLM bot up to their email support, they're ruining their own reputation, and I've lost my last example of a company doing support right. https://social.panic.com/@cabel/111692900717018267
@zachleat re: final paragraph of “Down for the Count” – you're being WAY too hard on yourself.
Something approaching a worst case scenario occurred, but after the dust settled Eleventy was pretty much fine because of the choices you'd made about its relationship to funding. You don’t have to look very hard to find another SSG that made different choices and is reaping what it sowed. (or, uh, it was reaped?)
As far as I'm concerned, it’s a model project and you handled it great!
@baldur Still sort of surprising they didn’t deal with this before an article could be written. Perhaps everyone who knew how to spot/address this got laid off?
@eviltrout@helvetica it is wild that the paragraph following this one starts with “That Connections was created internally makes its success all the more gratifying”
@baldur this whole thing ultimately doesn’t amount to much, but it kinda rules that all they had to do is run their idea by the set designer and she immediately was like "oh yeah sure, this show sucks!", and then later when they got found out by an executive producer he had the exact same reaction.
@jimniels@baldur an annoying detail in Chromium browsers that contributes to this: if you copy/past properly cased text that is text-transformed then it copies the all caps version, which makes it very easy to do this accidentally if you’re moving text between a web-based document and a CMS.
@matt I can definitely imagine it increasing over this period just because of how terrible the pop ups and other garbage had gotten in the last few years, but I don’t know that anyone really has accurate data. Even with server-based self-hosted analytics hard to exclude bots and crawlers and count legit visitors.
