WebKit Goals for 2020

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Post by piccirello » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 4:47 AM UTC

WebKit Goals for 2020
trac.webkit.org

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#2

Post by skrebbel » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 6:27 AM UTC

Pardon the all-too-typical off topic: woa, Trac! I haven't seen that in a long time. I have fond recollections of its customizability. Is it still being used in anger and improving, or is this just a legacy system we're looking at?

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#3

Post by tmikaeld » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 6:34 AM UTC

I've been implementing FIDO2 into my serverless application, finally there will be iOS support!

It really is the golden authentication method, it's very thought through and incredibly easy to use (unfortunately not to implement though)

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Post by modeless » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 6:41 AM UTC

The Web Push API is missing. I was hoping for that one.

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Post by asciident » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 6:49 AM UTC

No WebP? Safari is about to become out of date, and websites will stop working for it. I'm using WebP on my websites with no fallback to jpeg/png at the end of the year.

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Post by riazrizvi » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 6:54 AM UTC

I appreciate this declaration

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Post by cdbattags » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 6:54 AM UTC

No matter what, any and all improvements to JSC will do wonders to the React Native ecosystem and it's nice to have a list of targets.

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Post by mtgx » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 6:58 AM UTC

asciident wrote: post #5

No WebP? Safari is about to become out of date, and websites will stop working for it. I'm using WebP on my websites with no fallback to jpeg/png at the end of the year.

At this point I'd be more concerned if they have no plans to support AV1 and AVIF. It would be nice if Apple played ball more with the open ecosystems instead of constantly being a thorn in everyone's sides and such a contrarian in everything.

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Post by newscracker » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 7:03 AM UTC

Will 2020 be the year when WebKit, and the Safari browsers by extension, will have full and proper support for Service Workers and PWAs on par with other browsers? I recall reading that Safari lags behind on it, and the allegation was that Apple prefers native apps and doesn’t want web apps to be more popular.

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Post by Carpetsmoker » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 7:04 AM UTC

asciident wrote: post #5

No WebP? Safari is about to become out of date, and websites will stop working for it. I'm using WebP on my websites with no fallback to jpeg/png at the end of the year.

Imagine being software developer with a sense of professionalism and dealing with your customers as they are, even if it's annoying a tad bit of extra work, instead of telling them to sod off if they're using a browser you don't like.