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- Big Tech regulatory crackdown spreads to Asia and Australia – Financial Times: “Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra follow EU and US in trying to rein in dominance of Apple and Google” (alternate link)
- An alternative proposal for CSS masonry – “There are two related reasons why we feel that masonry is better defined outside of grid layout—the potential of layout performance issues, and the fact that both masonry and grid have features that make sense in one layout method but not the other.”
- Microsoft prefers masonry to be its own display type, rather than a type of display: grid. The whole discussion is fascinating. I’m in awe of my chums who can wrap their heads around a putative spec and poke holes in it. And a lot of concern for users -eg, us devs- on the usability of specs. Eg, does (potentially) overloading Grid make it harder to understand the display mode, so people won’t know *how* to make masonry layouts, even if it is possible? Exemplary thinking, comrades, from all perspectives & engines.
- How I tricked iOS into giving me EU DMA features – not especially useful as a phone, but useful if you are not in EU but would quite like *to test* how your EU customers get your apps from alt app stores, web etc.
- Why are my live regions not working? by Pattypoo Lauke
- CSS inheritance – “Inheritance truly is a superpower and it’s what makes developing on the web a joy if you embrace it. In this quick post, I’m going to convert you into a super fan”. By Andy “Whippet good” Bell.
- The Ultimate Collection of CSS-only Shapes – “Pure CSS shapes made with a single-element, modern CSS and an optimized code”. also, images masked into shapes. Or whatever the beret-wearing crew call images cut into certain shape rather than rectangles.
- Printing music with CSS Grid
- New alternatives to innerHTM
- How to get speech output as text from screen readers but note, as Adrian “The Godfather” Roselli reminded me, what you see in those speech viewers is not always what you hear.
- Google’s Payments to Apple Reached $20 Billion in 2022, Antitrust Court Documents Show – Duopoly? What Duopoly?
- How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? 82 people are running to be President of Iceland, at least 11 of them accidentally. “As a content designer, I was intrigued. How could so many people accidentally start a campaign for President of Iceland?”
- WhoFundsThem “is our new project looking into MPs financial interests. With your help, we’ll answer a set of important questions for each MP, then publish what we find in a clear and accessible way on TheyWorkForYou, and as a spreadsheet, for anyone to reuse”. MySociety seeks volunteers or donations to their important work.
- The Disenshittify Project by the WWW’s precursor to Kylie Minogue, John Allsopp
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