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Things you can do with a browser in 2020
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Re: Things you can do with a browser in 2020
#32Web Coffee API link tells you everything you need to know.
no, it doesn't tell me why there isn't a Web Team API ;p
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#33As a user, so many of these I wish did NOT exist. E.g: Push Notifications, Banners, Web Share, Contacts, Page Visibility, Badging. Uncertain about USB, Bluetooth, Locks, Keyboard Lock, and Native File System. I don't want my browser doing those things.
Consider that different users have different needs, and almost all features listed are opt-in.
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#34... and Safari still holding out on web push - this lack is a reason many native apps get written.
I’m not sure why I read this in a negative tone, this is fantastic.
It’s why there are no self hostable chat apps.
A better option would be for users to be able to select alternate push servers.
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#35Who seriously thought the Battery Status API was a good idea? Someone thought this was useful enough to write a spec for it...
Fullscreen games providing a battery indicator is always nice.
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#36Who seriously thought the Battery Status API was a good idea? Someone thought this was useful enough to write a spec for it...
Emergency tools could benefit from knowing if the device was about to die or not, like the Tinder SOS app, government emergency tools, etc. Imagine sending a quick POST request to save session state or whatever before it dies.
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#37As a user, so many of these I wish did NOT exist. E.g: Push Notifications, Banners, Web Share, Contacts, Page Visibility, Badging. Uncertain about USB, Bluetooth, Locks, Keyboard Lock, and Native File System. I don't want my browser doing those things.
Consider that different users have different needs, and almost all features listed are opt-in.
except you have to opt out of them all before you can consume that 1 website's content
hm I wonder if there is a chrome extension for that
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#38Worth noting is that "prefers-color-scheme" works in all major OSes at this point, mobile and desktop. If your site already has a dark theme, there is no reason at all not to be integrating it this way. Even if you don't have a dark theme already, it's a huge value-add..... (@dang?)
Yes, it's such an obscure feature that many of the people who enable it don't even realize it... Ever since I added dark mode to gwern.net, I've been getting or seeing complaints about how my website is broken or 'defaults to black-on-white' (it doesn't). :(
That's silly of them. The only problem I've noticed is that images are inverted when they shouldn't be (e.g. on hover or the enlarged view).
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Consider that different users have different needs, and almost all features listed are opt-in.
except you have to opt out of them all before you can consume that 1 website's content hm I wonder if there is a chrome extension for that
> except you have to opt out of them all before you can consume that 1 website's content
This is an issue with that particular website's implementation, not something inherent to the browser or the API.