While I agree with the @fsf warning about the emblematic value of the decision by #Google to pull support for #JpegXL from #Chrome, their article <https://u.fsf.org/3z8> is as empty as could be, especially considering that #GNU#IceCat doesn't support JPEG XL either (being based on a #Firefox branch that doesn't build #JXL support in.) You want to show that #FLOSS can do without? Do it by actually supporting what you complain Google is failing to.
For #Firefox and its forks, this means enabling it out of the box for main builds. For #Blink-based browsers (@Vivaldi are you listening?), this means rolling back Google's patch to remove it, and help maintain it with community effort. Ditto for #WebKit. The #openWeb needs something like what the #DocumentFoundation did for the office productivity suites and formats.
#Webkit needs more exposure to mainstream users, and needs to be accessible on #Linux.
Everyone forgets about it, yet it's a respectible browser engine to my knowledge, and nobody seems to use it besides Apple and some light weight Linux browsers. In this browser monoculture, I'm unsure of why it isn't more popular with the alternative browser developers and users.
There's currently an annoying bug in Safari 16.4 that impacts browser-based code editors.
When you copy multiple lines of text where any line ends with a colon (e.g. YAML, Python), the lines run together as a single line without linefeeds when pasted.
This is a regression from their security fix for lookalike characters in URLs.
An odd workaround is to start the copied lines with an #. It's fixed in Safari Tech Preview + nightly builds.
There’s a debate going on right now about whether Safari should allow users to install web apps via a web link/prompt instead of solely relying on the “Add to Home Screen” option currently hidden in the share menu:
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.