mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Rewild The Web
🦫 alert!
We published the first episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks", featuring @servo@floss.social and @n0iroh@mastodon.social to create distributed Web apps!
Learn more how we expand the Web from tabs to windows to devices at https://webbeef.org/tricks.html
Could not be at #fosdem to show our very early Web based user agent running on @mobian@fosstodon.org unfortunately 😞
Check it at https://tangled.org/me.webbeef.org/browser.html/
🦫 alert!
We published the second episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks", featuring
native support for ATProto ! Learn more how we improve user agency and privacy at https://webbeef.org/atproto.html :
- Native at:// protocol support.
- Log in your PDS and forget OAuth !
- Authorize 3rd parties
Since we're on Mastodon, please help us figure out what we can do to add native ActivityPub support!
🦫 alert!
We need to rewild the Web. Doing my part with a @servo@floss.social based user agent in https://tangled.org/me.webbeef.org/browser.html/
Initial support for pointer events in @servo@floss.social merged in https://github.com/webbeef/servo/commit/39d946b01d4e9f17d8212d1d11a694187c86b66d !
Now is the time to refactor our UI touchstart / touchend event handlers
🦫 alert!
We published the 4th episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks!", and it's about Web Tasks: https://webbeef.org/webtasks.html
Register the tasks you can fulfill, and let the user agent bridge callers to providers!
And of course, it works transparently in multi-device environnements 🐈
RE: @mechasystems@fosstodon.org
What a nice and unusual lock screen animation! Adding the Comet to the list of device we want to support 😜
🦫 Update: we now have an improved keyboard with multiple layouts and emoji support!
Get the latest from https://tangled.org/me.webbeef.org/beaver
Thinking about our data storage layer... Wondering if it's better to go with 1) a VFS and build a local index on top of it, or 2) a database than can store (or link to) blobs.
@peergos@mastodon.social would fit 1), and https://github.com/dialog-db/dialog-db/ could be an option for 2).
🦫 alert!
We published the 3rd episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks!", and it's about Web Tiles: https://webbeef.org/webtiles.html
A very promising solution to host your own sites in your ATProto PDS, and a stepping stone for composable web fragments.
Here's a quick video about it:
Hi @delta@chaos.social , is the work started in https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/tree/simon/browser-edition still of interest? We would love to get DeltaChat running in our 🦫 Browser!
