It seems time again to remind everyone not to use ARIA `menu` roles for web site navigation:
adrianroselli.com/2017/10/dont…
From a technical perspective, there is no such thing as “dropdowns”:
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/stop…
That imprecise terminology leads to more miscommunication between sales folks, designers, and devs than is necessary. Then weird stuff gets built from scratch instead of leaning on existing patterns.
You should dismiss articles that conflate the two.
I don’t think most people realize how Firefox and Safari depend on Google for more than “just” revenue from default search engine deals and prototyping new web platform features.
Off the top of my head, Safari and Firefox use the following Chromium libraries: libwebrtc, libbrotli, libvpx, libwebp, some color management libraries, libjxl (Chromium may eventually contribute a Rust JPEG-XL implementation to Firefox; it’s a hard image format to implement!), much of Safari’s cryptography (from BoringSSL), Firefox’s 2D renderer (Skia)…the list goes on. Much of Firefox’s security overhaul in recent years (process isolation, site isolation, user namespace sandboxes, effort on building with ControlFlowIntegrity) is directly inspired by Chromium’s architecture.
Interdependence for independent components can be mutually beneficial. For something to be part of Chromium, it needs to build and test with a battery of sanitizers and receive continuous fuzzing. Mozilla and Safari do something similar. All benefit from libraries getting patched to meet each others’ security requirements. Without Google, Mozilla and Apple must assume responsibility to maintain these libraries to a browser-grade standard.
I see many advocates for Chromium alternatives say the Web would be better without Chromium. That may be true, but Chromium alternatives may also be worse.
For completeness: Firefox and Safari’s influence on Chromium in recent years includes the addition of memory-safe languages, partitioned site storage, declarative content blocking (from Safari), and a vague multi-year repeatedly-delayed intent to phase out third-party cookies. Chromium would be no better off without other browser projects.
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I got the Machine CPU and RAM stats working, along with some of Microsoft's weird JS API's.
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Am I misunderstanding something or does this article indicate that adding menu/menuitem roles somehow ensure keyboard operability of dropdown menus? (They don’t.) The use of <ul>/<li> elements is also superfluous as the added roles mean it could be just <div>s. Not a bad practice, but the article seems to indicate using a list is somehow helpful to AT users. (It isn’t.) I’d also recommend the aria-haspopup=menu (although equivalent to true, it’s more specific).
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When I think about reading, the activity, I think of it as something distinct from listening to an audiobook. I enjoy the physical and mental act of reading. It is recreational for me in a way that listening to an audiobook isn’t.
But I do love and listen to audiobooks, and listening to audiobooks “counts” as reading, whatever that means. If you ask me what books I’ve read, I’m going to list those I’ve read and those I’ve listened to (and in some cases I’m probably not going to remember which is which). urusai.social/@nazokiyoubinbou…
Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?
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@Ezzy @hazelnoot well it’s hosted on hetzner servers. the top post listed pieces of software, not hosting providers.
honestly pleroma is below my threshold for “automatically be very suspicious of this instance” given how it’s still popular for single-user instances. in replies, i singled out the top three but not the top four for a reason.
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@mdalves One more thing: pinch to zoom would be great too.
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in reply to Seirdy • • •I mean that is the point of open source :)
But you also need to consider how much of that is because chrome shipped those features and therefore everyone else had to as well - Mozilla does not have the money to compete there even before its slow motion implosion
For everyone else it’s just time - plenty of these things are *huge* amounts of work, and insanely complex, and the “standard” is pretty much “whatever Google implemented”
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in reply to Oliver Hunt • • •@ohunt Color space processing, cross platform GPU-accelerated 2d graphics, and brotli compression are things that aren’t necessary to use websites but all browsers chose to ship, and they chose Chromium’s implementations. Firefox already had other 2d backends but switched to Skia. HDR in particular is an OS feature that all programs capable of playing video and showing images are generally expected to support, and that means handling complex color metadata.
This is not the case for most examples I cited; the first sentence of the post set the scope to exclude Web standards. I was describing libraries chosen by browsers.
Multiple implementations of WebP, Brotli, and others exist; most of them aren’t browser-grade implementations. Tons of implementations of TLS 1.3 exist, but Apple (and AWS, and Cloudflare, and several others) switched to Google’s BoringSSL over popular alternatives like OpenSSL, LibreSSL, Mozilla’s NSS, and GnuTLS.
JPEG-XL has a very popular independent Rust implementation which Mozilla is not considering, in favor of one supplied by Chromium which doesn’t even support JXL right now.
None of the Chromium-inspired security improvements in Firefox are necessary to render web pages or implement standards.
Part of the point of my post was to show how reality isn’t as simple as the popular “everybody has to do what Google says because it has market share” narrative, or the “if Mozilla had an alternative to Google’s revenue it would be truly independent” narrative. Browser vendors do have choice when picking libraries that implement features or deciding on security architecture improvements. They tend to pick what Chromium has done even when given feature-complete choices because they find the Chromium options to be best.
I agree with you when it comes to Web standards, though. But this post wasn’t about standards.
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