georg fischer @snorpey@mastodon.social

Trying out the new Firefox on Android. So far:

• It shares data with their "mobile marketing vendor" Leanplum, switched on by default
• It reset my default search engine choice back to Google

Is this what Mozilla meant by their new focus on monetising products? 🙄

You may think it's pseudocode gibberish, but it's not. You just don't have the right keyboard.

Apple just killed Offline Web Apps while purporting to protect your privacy: why that’s A Bad Thing and why you should care

https://ar.al/2020/03/25/apple-just-killed-offline-web-apps-while-purporting-to-protect-your-privacy-why-thats-a-bad-thing-and-why-you-should-care/

This “user named w3c” is “obviously wrong”.

Just discovered the CSS `@counter-style` at-rule.
Looks promising, but only firefox supports it (since v33):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@counter-style

#web #css

Sunset at Grimburgwal in Amsterdam

Recently I learned about a handy way to prevent scrolling while focusing an element:

element.focus({ preventScroll: true })

Sadly it only seems to work in Chrome currently, but hopefully Firefox/Safari will implement it soon, since it's in the WHATWG HTML spec: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/focus#Parameters

There's a secret reason that programmers love to promote "Learn to Code" initiatives. No one talks about it, but I'm about to break the silence on this wide open.

I could get professionally banned for saying this, but the truth must come out!

Are you ready?

Okay, here it is:

We're seriously hoping someone new will come in and fix all this bullshit we're dealing with. Seriously - it's bad. Help us. Please? SAVE US!

I’m done with Chrome as they try to force Google login—and thus tracking—for all their users.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
(currently seems to be reverted but certainly showing the goal of the browser/company).