Roderick Gadellaa

🪲 An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers 10 yrs of Safari showstopper bugs. TL;DR: iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers, it's the fundamental reason interoperability has been stymied in mobile ecosystems; ... 1/n webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/hi...

😭 arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...

"In 2022, security researcher Felix Krause showed that Instagram and Facebook’s in-app browsers injected JavaScript into the pages users visited". What if links to web pages simply opened in your default browser on a device that you own. The browser *you* chose and installed, because you trust it?

What do you want us to work on in 2027? Here's a web app where you can rank the Interop proposals you care about, giving us data we can use to prioritise feature development. interop-rank.fxdx.dev

Hyped! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcLE...

Forbes: "Anthropic has made history by reporting its first profitable quarter, [...] proving the AI buildout can be a self-sustaining enterprise" www.forbes.com/sites/jonmar... The Verge editor-in-chief: "Anthropic's financials are fiction in, like, a real way." youtu.be/WTSOiCDqkPw?...

I live every day praying that every single damn website on the world wide web will ask me to sign in with google and truly these are blessed times to be alive

Today marks three years since we released Vivaldi for iOS. Hurray! Here's a look at how we're working with other browsers and groups to liberate all platforms so you have the right to run the software you want on a device that you own.

"Companies don’t push apps because installing one improves your spiritual wellbeing." webdesignerdepot.com/nobody-wants...

[NL] ‘Is de oorlog al begonnen?’ vroeg influencer Gio Latooy. ‘ChatGPT zegt officieel van niet.’ [Een dystopische toekomst] waarin waarheid er niet langer toe doet, waarin algoritme, feed en chatbot bepalen in welke wereld jij leeft. decorrespondent.nl/17251/brief-...

The W3C released a new HTML element out of nowhere. It was the element of <surprise>.

if anyone asks I’m a lawyer and this is protected

It's annoying to keep hearing about cool CSS features only to find out browser support isn't great, so today I take a look at a bunch of features that have fantastic support, but people still turn to JS for instead. youtu.be/qu1jE41O_8o

[NL] Als Trump het op je gemunt heeft, kun je ook in Europa niet meer pinnen decorrespondent.nl/shorts/17264...

De Amerikaanse pers zet Donald Trump eindelijk op ‘mute’. Laat dat vooral zo blijven decorrespondent.nl/17270/de-ame... via @decorrespondent.nl

One more call for feedback! Yeah, I know, I often ask for feedback but, think about it, the more you share, the better the feature. 💡Support low-quality image placeholders on the web! ➡️<img previewsrc="preview.avif" src="photo.avif"> ❓Would you use this? What capabilities do you need? Read more⬇️

🇬🇧 OWA is having a special meetup in London on the 1st of October 2026 together with London Web Standards. 🌐 Join us for talks on browser competition, web apps, browser choice and data portability followed by Q&A and a chance to meet people from OWA and others working on these issues. 🔗 More info:

Of course I am checking Viewports in Safari on an iPhone Duo (Front Screen) … (Simulated device; Xcode 27.1 Device Hub)

🥫 beige.party/@LRRRonEarth...

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

You should go! (I'm not, unfortunately, but I do really want to!)

"... What's it like to be alive?" 🤸 youtube.com/watch?v=isLW...

[NL] "Journalist, kom in verzet. Zo versla je extremisme." decorrespondent.nl/shorts/17263...

"It’s almost as if Webkit aren’t actually participating in good faith but rather have already made up their mind to drag their heels when it comes to any kind of progress on this topic."

It looks like Google is finally working on a way to support third-party browsers being able to install proper APKs for web apps. This is generally something that only Chrome can do currently. There's very little public documentation and it still seems quite early, but there's a new WebAppManager API

Journal: Stalling installing Trying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22757

Het land staat stil, het geduld raakt op. Dit jaar heeft de koning de pen dus maar zelf ter hand genomen. Lees de troonrede van @tom-lash.bsky.social:

🎨 Ever wondered why oklch() is so odd? Why adjusting L doesn't produce good color ramps? And why TF is L=100% not white?! I just wrote a thorough explanation of why this happens¹: github.com/web-platform... 👍 Upvote if you want this fixed in browsers in 2027! ¹ Spoiler: it’s lack of gamut mapping

[NL] Het is weer zover. Je kunt nu een maand gratis De Correspondent proberen. *EINDELIJK* hoor ik je denken. PS: het proeflidmaatschap stopt vanzelf, je zit nergens aan vast, en je hoeft niet meteen je creditcard gegevens te overhandigen decorrespondent.nl/cp/gratis-ma...

Oops. I invented a new CSS shrink-wrap technique and blogged about it. blog.codepen.io/2026/09/11/s...

Vivaldi now supports extensions on Android! ♥️ vivaldi.com/android/new/

If you're a web-dev and there's a web feature you like ( #CSS, #JS or an #API) but isn't cross-browser yet: this is your time to shine ✨ Every year, the Web Platform Interop project (collaboration between browsers) to decide on which features to support cross-browser: web.dev/blog/interop... 1/3

JFC people.kernel.org/monsieuricon...

We have a platform that anyone can access from anywhere, is open, interoperable, and has proven it can give native platforms a *serious* run for their money. But *somehow* everyone thinks "we need alternative app stores" instead of "we need to unleash the web on mobile". open-web-advocacy.org

Love this quote. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/tide-li...

[NL] ‘Ceuta’ was een stresstest voor Europese eenheid. Extreemrechts ging er met de prijs vandoor decorrespondent.nl/17181/ceuta-...

Jon and Cory talk AI and competition and more. youtu.be/-dAIJRjb-Bw?...

So they removed the option to use the classic editor. Guess I won't be using CodePen anymore. blog.codepen.io/2026/07/23/t...

Are we at the point where AI bros are boasting about how many times their toys escaped the sandbox and started hacking into servers?? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...