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by alwillis 10mo ago
There are WebKit-based browsers for Linux: https://webkit.org/downloads/
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I saw a similar comment on HN recently that CSS was "better" back in the day and what we have today is either unnecessary or too hard. I reminded that person we had to use floats and positioning hacks and abuse HTML tables for pag
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> The only people who think Safari is the new IE are people who weren’t around for IE. Absolutely true! I've said the same thing many times myself. Stating that Safari is the new IE is one of the answers to: "Tell me you didn&#
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> How can you defend Safari rendering broken sites for long periods due to lack of frequent updates as a good thing? That hasn't been true for a few years now. Even now, when a site breaks in Safari, more often than not, it's b
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> Having to wait for macOS updates holds back the browser, unnecessarily. Safari is an operating system component, which lots of people don't seem to understand; hundreds of thousands of 3rd party apps rely on Safari's WebKit
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by alwillis 10mo ago
This should be a good start: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce
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> I can't think of a single good reason why they don't adopt an "evergreen" 4/6-week update model except Not Invented Here syndrome or "it's not Apple-like, we prefer the OS team (and therefore Marketin
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> They surprised us all when they suddenly shot to the top of interop-2025 this October Not all of us were surprised; some of us have been watching the Safari team shipping the latest HTML and CSS features for a few years now.
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> I foresee all of this CSS/HTML stuff as eventually being declared a sort of legacy format and adding a standard way to ship pluggable rendering engines/language runtimes. I doubt this is going to happen as long as backwards c
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> Personally, I use an 11-year-old machine and have had to add userscript hacks to certain major Web sites to work around bugs in CSS grid (not the "lanes" described here). The version of CSS Grid we're using today didn&#x
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by alwillis 10mo ago
>> "In my mind, they're hardly making any money compared to how much they're spending" > everyone seems to assume this, but its not like its a company run by dummies, or has dummy investors. It has nothing to do
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Apple's impressive open-source model instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views(9to5mac.com)
2 points by alwillis 10mo ago|1 comments
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FAANG has shedded between 81,000 and 87,000 workers in the past 5 years; I suspect a significant chunk of these jobs aren't coming back. Seems to me the companies are mostly in a holding pattern: sure, if an important project needs mor
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> the first Apple silicon (though not branded as such at the time) was 15 years ago Nobody, not even Apple was using the term "Apple Silicon" in 2010. The first M series Macs shipped November 2020.
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by alwillis 10mo ago
OSCP enables every website someone visits to be tracked; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290033
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The 7-day certificate will be here before you know it [1]. [1]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/profiles/#shortlived
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> We need a second source, preferably located in the EU. Absolutely. It feels like a matter of time before the current US administration will attempt to implement some authoritarian policy regarding certificates.
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by alwillis 10mo ago
Some users will be able to opt-in to automatically getting a new cert every 7 days at some point [1]. [1]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/profiles/#shortlived
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> OCSP failed for the same reason this change is painful: server operators don’t want to have to configure anything for any reason ever. OCSP is going end-of-life because it makes it too easy to track users. From Lets Encrypt[1]: We end
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WebKit Features for Safari 26.2(webkit.org)
1 points by alwillis 10mo ago|0 comments
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> It seems clear to me that they use OS updates as a way to eventually slow your device down This sounds like an exaggeration of what happens after an upgrade: iOS has to re-index your entire phone for Spotlight, etc. Same thing for Phot
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by alwillis 10mo ago
This should get you caught up: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce
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Hopefully the next time it’s updated, it should ship with some variant of the M5.
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> I’m expecting Apple to release a new Mac Pro in the next couple years I think Apple is done with expansion slots, etc. You'll likely see M5 Mac Studios fairly soon.
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> surprised ai companies are not making this workflow possible instead of leaving it upto users to figure out how to get voice text into prompt. Claude on macOS and iOS have native voice to text transcription. Haven't tried it but s
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by alwillis 11mo ago
Due to not shipping GPL3 code, the version of Bash on macOS is 3.2 and sometimes that makes a difference.
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> They just need to start deprecating and removing old features. That's not going to happen. They can't break millions of websites by removing old features. Besides, for the most part, current developers can ignore most of the
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> Disagree. The newer stuff is, if anything, more confusing. The old stuff, awful as it was, at least had a consistent model. With the "old stuff", we didn't a layout model or an alignment model. Everything required float
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by alwillis 11mo ago
>On the contrary, a lot of the reason CSS is confusing is because it's full of insane hacks people have to do to get the behaviour they want. CSS is confusing because the vast majority of web developers never learned it properly. Ma
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by alwillis 11mo ago
A gentle reminder: conditionals aren't new to CSS; @supports and @media are conditionals; so are style queries. if() just codifies behaviors and hacks [1] developers were already doing. [1]: https://lea.verou.me/blog&#x

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