Posts by jensimmons@front-end.social
(DIR) Post #AdgWIadCWLlsZ0YwdM by jensimmons@front-end.social
2024-01-09T20:57:23Z
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2.8 The web must enhance individuals' control and powerWe recognize that web technologies can be used to manipulate and deceive people, complicate isolation, and encourage addictive behaviors. We seek to mitigate against these potential abuses and patterns… We will also build web technologies for individual developers as well for developers at large companies and organizations. The web should enable do-it-yourself developers.
(DIR) Post #AdgWIdcxNiMHr7TIAa by jensimmons@front-end.social
2024-01-09T20:58:46Z
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2.9 The web must be an environmentally sustainable platformWeb technologies may have overall positive environmental impacts as well as negative impacts, and these can change over time and vary geographically as both web and environmental technologies develop. We will endeavor not to do further harm to the environment when we introduce new technologies to the web…
(DIR) Post #AdgWIfd1wPbc3vWNYu by jensimmons@front-end.social
2024-01-09T20:58:57Z
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2.10 The web is transparentThe web was built on a "view source" principle, currently realized through robust developer tools built into many browsers. We will always make sure it is possible to determine how a web application was built and how the code works. Furthermore, we will always make sure it is possible to audit and inspect web applications and underlying software for security, privacy or other considerations.
(DIR) Post #AdgWIhWMu9StvqQ5SK by jensimmons@front-end.social
2024-01-09T20:59:38Z
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2.11 The web is multi-browser, multi-OS and multi-deviceWe will not create web technologies that encourage the creation of websites that work only in one browser, or only on particular hardware. We expect that content provided by accessing a URL should yield a thematically consistent experience when someone is accessing it from different devices. The existence of multiple interoperable implementations enables competition, and thus a variety of choices for web users.
(DIR) Post #AdgWIjbl94xwP8xQ8W by jensimmons@front-end.social
2024-01-09T20:59:53Z
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2.12 People should be able to render web content as they wantPeople must be able to change web pages according to their needs. For example, people should be able to install style sheets, assistive browser extensions, and blockers of unwanted content or scripts or auto-played videos. We will build features and write specifications that respect peoples' agency, and will create user agents to represent those preferences on the web user's behalf
(DIR) Post #AiuGXYqivbSat4c2uu by jensimmons@front-end.social
2024-06-13T23:55:05Z
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A mask ban will ban me completely from indoor public life. I’ve already been pushed most of the way out of society. I cannot believe people are legislating pushing people like me all the way out. Oh, wait, yes I can. This is what the last 2.8 years have been like. Watching everyone around me deciding one by one they would rather banish me from society than be even the slightest bit inconvenienced. Letting me know their feelings are far more important than my life. https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/112611073769629423
(DIR) Post #AjA0OYdOnLDfEkZUum by jensimmons@front-end.social
2024-06-21T17:11:45Z
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It’s time for me to ask again:Web designers, developers and others who make websites,What features would you like to see added to the web next? What do you want to be able to do/design that you can’t do today? What features do you need added to or fixed in Safari? What’s most important to you? Why / what will you use it for / why does it matter for your audience?
(DIR) Post #AqB6YXP8dlPdxPHgA4 by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-01-17T15:59:44Z
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Do you believe women are inherently as valuable as men, deserving of equal human rights?
(DIR) Post #AsIcDIvrqCL5KuWWa8 by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-03-21T23:27:48Z
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@nachtfunke Standards-first is truly important. People have had ideas of how form controls and their custom styling should work for THIRTY YEARS. There is no lack of ideas. What's been lacking is consensus on how to move forward. Anyone pushing a one-company / one-person agenda without true cross-browser, cross-working-group consensus is not going to break the three-decade old log jam.
(DIR) Post #AsJTunWtFhrKFpStg8 by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-03-21T22:00:56Z
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There it is! Finally, a real solution for how to style all of the HTML form controls using your own custom CSS to change anything — building on an interoperable UA set of defaults. It only took 30 years! First will be the chance to style the “in-page” controls (the part embedded in the webpage), plus the popover for <select> (the part that appears “over top of” the page). Later we’ll do popovers for more things — like the date picker, etc. Read about it here: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-forms/
(DIR) Post #AsJTuvOg082gefgRzE by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-03-21T23:37:10Z
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Some things to know:- This complements the work Open UI is doing (on popover, <select>, etc). It does not *compete*. They go together.- This CSS specification aims to let you style *all existing form controls*. We believe in creating a single comprehensive system for the entire thing all at once, not layering ideas on top of each other piecemeal, having to fix mistakes we just made.- We want feedback to make sure we get the whole plan right before any browser ships. Which will take time.
(DIR) Post #Au45ewECPgLC6X5rEW by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-05-13T18:50:11Z
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Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/
(DIR) Post #Av23u8L97Wem8vQZJQ by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-06-11T20:23:47Z
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Now that you’ve seen what’s coming in Safari 26… web designers & developers, what do you need most to come next? If you were setting the priorities for what happens, what would you put at the top of the list?
(DIR) Post #AxriOBoVMPqJVY8WeG by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-09-04T06:15:57Z
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Covid is highly contagious.It’s airborne. Floats in the air & hangs for hours, like measles. You can show up later & get infected. It’s incredibly damaging to the human body. Especially if you are infected over & over.The vaccines are amazing. And yet, they do not prevent vaccinated people from being infected & contagious.Many infectious people have no symptoms at all.The rapid home tests have an incredibly high rate of false negatives. A negative test does NOT mean you don't have it.
(DIR) Post #AxriODKnhpGqE0Fpcu by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-09-04T06:19:34Z
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Waste water data from cities in the United States are showing a massive outbreak in many places right now. I'm watching one person after another get it. While almost no one is taking precautions.The information we were told at the beginning about it not infecting or affecting kids much turned out to be proven by scientists to be wrong. Kids do suffer horrible consequences. Masks make a massive difference. You need masks that seal, KN95 or N95. Covid is airborne. It floats far.
(DIR) Post #AxriOE2l4OQsQKow8u by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-09-04T06:24:24Z
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We know a lot about this virus. We know how to take care of ourselves & each other. You just have to decide that you want to.It was incredible in 2020 to see how much people cared, & how far they were willing to go to help their neighbors, friends & family. It was devastating to watch in 2022 as 98% of people decided that they were done caring. And instead choose delusion. To intentionally infect others rather than experience more inconvenience. It's not too late to start caring again.
(DIR) Post #AxriOF5HCW2beR0Shs by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-09-04T06:27:15Z
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I learned about Covid in Jan 2020, and looked up a LOT of information in Feb. What I learned alarmed me, so I prepared (long before most people in the U.S. did) and then I spread the news on Twitter. [RIP, I miss Twitter.]I wrote a lot about Covid in 2020 and 2021 on Twitter. And then I gave up. I realized the people around me did not care. And I was screaming into the wind.But sadly Covid did not let go of me. I'm still disabled by it. Every day.
(DIR) Post #AxriOGDoyETDBE0nfE by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-09-04T06:30:58Z
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So, I'll just post this one thread. Because it's everywhere right now. Do I dare beg you to care again? Quote the science / find all the links to proof? I don't know. I need to sleep & probably it won't matter. The facts are easily found. Most are already known by most people. This is a problem of empathy now. To wake up (yes) and recognize that "but I'm a good person, so I don't have to worry, it won't get me, I have good health/genes/morality" is eugenics. Choose another path. Please?
(DIR) Post #AxroN5U40ZJRJPQuQq by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-09-03T21:35:56Z
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Web developers, I have a question for you. Imagine an idea for a new web technology is proposed. But at least of the browser makers formally objects because of privacy concerns or other reasons. They say "No, we object to this proposal. We will never ship this. Let’s redesign it without these problems." But the other browser disagrees & ships anyway.Should that technology be considered A Web Standard — when 1 or 2 browsers implement & ship, while 1 or 2 browsers Formally Object and say no?
(DIR) Post #AxxsjTRz9CUImL9OwC by jensimmons@front-end.social
2025-09-03T21:40:05Z
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Next, should that technology — that has a proposal at a standards venue, and is starting to ship in browsers… but also has a formal objection to that technology on the record from 1 or 2 browsers that have made it clear they do not want to ship the technology as described…Should that feature be listed in Baseline as a feature that browsers are supposed to ship? When there’s a graph of "missing features", should the lack of shipping such a feature be logged as missing?