A big day for the open web in Europe... https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines/
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Rick Byers
@RickByers@toot.cafe
mastodon 4.7.3Web Platform engineer at Google on the Chrome team, helping the open web to thrive.
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Who is free in the bay area this afternoon and wants to be inspired by computing's past while chatting about the future of the web?
Join me at the Computer History Museum around 3-5pm today!
Details at https://bsky.app/profile/rbyers.net/post/3lwjivvgwes2g
The Chromium commit tracker can now count unique contributors. It's neat to see how this has changed over time, and great to see Microsoft nearly back up to their peak! Thanks to
@arthursonzogni@mamot.fr for adding!
[Note: Google omitted as it dominates at 84%]. https://chrome-commit-tracker.arthursonzogni.com/organizations/commits/?repositories=chromium&organizations=ARM,Igalia,Individuals,Intel,LGE,Microsoft,Opera,Samsung,Unknown,Yandex&grouping=quarterly&colors=organizations&kind=author&metric=contributor&chart=line&dates=2009-03-01,2024-09-16
It's been a DECADE since I filed this WebKit bug for touch co-ordinates being integers, preventing smooth sliding and drawing.
It's the collection of all such neglect that make the WebKit restriction on iOS so harmful.
I've been looking through Chrome public data on push notification usage in Europe. Did you know that there are 219 unique sites in the top 1000 per country with a greater than 50% push permission acceptance rate?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mir_mMpxypdqLDsSzad6xHh2jTA0VgQ6xLi6Jr2j41Q/edit#gid=605562500