Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
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Re: Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
#2> It stands to reason that Apple wouldn't have developed this feature if they weren't using it. Where? We have no idea. But they must be using it somewhere. The fact that none of us have noticed exactly where suggests that we're interacting with webviews in our daily use of iOS without ever even realising it.
This is what stood out to me. I've never really suspected webviews and can't think of a place now.
Re: Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
#3Providing an OS feature only to first-party programs is a plainly anticompetitive practice. Using your privileged position in one market (cell phones/cell phone operating systems) to gain an advantage in another market (smart phone applications) that you withhold from your competitors is a textbook case.
Re: Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
#4> It stands to reason that Apple wouldn't have developed this feature if they weren't using it. Where? We have no idea. But they must be using it somewhere . The fact that none of us have noticed exactly where suggests that we're interacting with webviews in our daily use of iOS without ever even realising it. This is what stood out to me. I've never really suspected webviews and can't think of a place now.
I assume they're going to use it on Apple.com, the same way that they were using backdrop-filter to simulate the frosted glass on earlier iOSes
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Re: Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
#6Let's pray this liquid jelly doesnt become a trend
Re: Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
#7> It stands to reason that Apple wouldn't have developed this feature if they weren't using it. Where? We have no idea. But they must be using it somewhere . The fact that none of us have noticed exactly where suggests that we're interacting with webviews in our daily use of iOS without ever even realising it. This is what stood out to me. I've never really suspected webviews and can't think of a place now.
I often suspect things in Settings, esp. account/iCloud section to be webviews, just based on how they load (icons appearing a short moment after the page opens for example).
Re: Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
#8> you have to toggle a setting in WKPreferences called useSystemAppearance... and it's private. So if you use it, say goodbye to App Store approval.
is this true? i know very little of iOS development but i swear i remember watching a decompilation of an app that used various internal APIs to provide animated home screen widgets
Re: Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
#9I like "Alastair's Grand Theory of In-App Webviews":
the main reason webviews in apps have such a bad reputation is because you don't notice the webviews that are integrated seamlessly
Re: Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
#10> It stands to reason that Apple wouldn't have developed this feature if they weren't using it. Where? We have no idea. But they must be using it somewhere . The fact that none of us have noticed exactly where suggests that we're interacting with webviews in our daily use of iOS without ever even realising it. This is what stood out to me. I've never really suspected webviews and can't think of a place now.
I assume they're going to use it on Apple.com, the same way that they were using backdrop-filter to simulate the frosted glass on earlier iOSes
according to the post, it doesn't exist on Safari