I took over stewardship of the Spaces Chrome extension recently (open source repo). Dean, the original developer, no longer wanted to maintain it. Chrome Extension Manifest V3 had caused the extension to be broken for a couple years, and then eventually taken down from the Chrome Web Store. I have been a heavy daily user of this extension for over a decade.
Ok, he wants to sell me on this "Spaces" thing now...
Read the rest of this entry ...Kind of an interesting month for raster image formats on the web! Apple just recently announced that iOS and Safari 14 supports the WebP image format. Yay - in roughly a year, we can use it everywhere on the web without needing to have a fallback solution (like using WASM to turn WebP into PNG/JPEG). Now we just have to wait for the rest of the ecosystem (image editors).
I guess next up is for Apple to get on board with the AVIF format, since Firefox and Chrome announced upcoming AVIF support just two days ago.
The last piece heralding the dawn of modern JavaScript (sometimes thought of as ES6, but we're past that now) arrived last month when two browsers (Chrome and Safari) shipped support for ES6 modules natively without developer flags. It's now possible to write all this stuff (modules, classes, arrow functions, const/let variables, Promises) using just your code and not relying on transpilers!