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- Safari 15.4 Beta Release Notes
- Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS – “iOS 15.4 beta has finally added icon support in the manifest, Web Push, AR, and VR experiments” says @firt
- Browsing with assistive technology videos – EXCELLENT short videos (<5 mins) that show you how people using screen readers, keyboard-only, screen magnifiers etc use the web. And narrated ASMR-style by “Mr Mellifluous” Pattypoo Lauke
- Going Dutch – The continuing saga of Apple’s conflict with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM)the Dutch equivalent of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. By John Gruber, so expect some reality distortion field.
- Using Google Fonts Breaches GDPR – “The Bavarian state court in Munich, Germany, on 20 January 2022, decided that using Google fonts in your site breaches the GDPR” (the linked version. Self-hosting doesn’t breach GDPR, and is better for performance by eliminating another DNS lookup)
- Behavioral ad industry gets hard reform deadline after IAB’s TCF found to breach Europe’s GDPR – “the regulatory sanction prohibits behavioral advertisers from using the IAB’s so-called “Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) to bypass user consent by claiming legitimate interest as a legal base to track and profile web users.” I don’t know what IAB TCF is, but I bet it smells like bums.
- Announcing PWA Studio, the VS Code extension for building Progressive Web Apps! “The PWA Studio VSCode extension brings everything you need to build high quality PWAs right to your VSCode!”
- No, Apple Did Not Crowdfund :focus-visible in Safari – Uncle Eric sets the record straight: “The addition of :focus-visible to WebKit was lead by the community, done by Igalia, and contributed to WebKit without any involvement from Apple except in the sense of their reviewing patches and accepting the contributions.”
- Talking of Igalia, Wolvic is an open source browser “that opens a portal to the Web and all it has to offer, including immersive games, videos, and environments built for XR” from your chums at Mozilla and Igalia
- How to document accessibility as a UX designer – “Focus on the output, not the implementation.”
- Apple’s cloud gaming restrictions may be biggest news in CMA interim report
- Dozens of U.S. states say Apple stifles competition; back ‘Fortnite’ maker
- The Costs of Exclusion: West Africa Regional Report (PDF) – The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has qualitative evidence of the economic impact that digital technology has on women’s lives and the economy at-large in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria.
- Facebook: Daily active users fall for first time in 18-year history – Biz 101: if your business is connecting everyone on the planet, then facilitating genocide, you’re going to lose users.
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