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- The UK competition regulator just published its statement of issues (PDF, 17 pp) for its new Mobile browsers and cloud gaming market investigation.
- Apple is reportedly preparing to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone – let’s see; this is “reportedly”, and nothing about PWA-capable 3rd party browser engines on iThings. But it’s the sweet smell of #appleBrowserBan change blowing in the wind.
- The Web’s Next Transition – Kent C. Dodds thinks it is “Progressively Enhanced Single Page Apps”. Progressive Enhancement? Yay. Single Page Apps? Meh. Talking of which…
- Shared Element Transitions is now View Transitions and when smooth and simple transitions with the View Transitions API are shipping for multi-page apps, we’ll be able to get the snappy feel of single page apps, without all the crap and accessibility problems. Yay!
- Access & Use shows what it needs to make dynamic elements in websites accessible and usable for all.
- Introducing Codux – a new visual IDE for easing and accelerating the development of React projects from Wix. (I worked on this team).
- Shadow DOM and accessibility: the trouble with ARIA and how the Accessibility Object Model solves the problem
- You Don’t Need ARIA For That – “ARIA usage certainly has its place. But overall, reduced usage of ARIA will, ironically, greatly increase accessibility.”
- Making microservices accessible
- Tab order in CSS Masonry – Chromium discussion on what the order should be
- Meta is being sued for $2 billion for exacerbating Ethiopia’s civil war -Facebook’s algorithm helped fuel the viral spread of hate and violence during Ethiopia’s civil war, a legal case alleges.”
- How I set up a Twitter archive with Tweetback – flame-haired FOSS adonis Stuart Langridge has step-by-step instructions. Needs you to be able to do stuff in Terminal.
- Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive – download your archive from twitter, this tool processes the zip file (on your local machine), upload the resulting html pages to your archive URL. Simpler than using Tweetback, but less customisable.
- And finally: Musk-era Twitter emulator
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