Covid is highly contagious. It’s airborne. Floats in the air & hangs for hours, like measles. You can show up later & get infected. It’s incredibly damaging to the human body. Especially if you are infected over & over. The vaccines are amazing. And yet, they do not prevent vaccinated people from being infected & contagious. Many infectious people have no symptoms at all. The rapid home tests have an incredibly high rate of false negatives. A negative test does NOT mean you don't have it.

Web developers, I have a question for you. Imagine an idea for a new web technology is proposed. But at least of the browser makers formally objects because of privacy concerns or other reasons. They say "No, we object to this proposal. We will never ship this. Let’s redesign it without these problems." But the other browser disagrees & ships anyway. Should that technology be considered A Web Standard — when 1 or 2 browsers implement & ship, while 1 or 2 browsers Formally Object and say no?

Web developers, do you test your sites in Safari Beta? (On a standalone machine, automated? On your Mac?) If not, why? Is it because installing the beta overrides regular Safari? If you could have Safari & Safari beta both at the same time, would you do so? What do you need? Why? Share details!

Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of developers & other people wish that uBlock Origin was available for Safari. Now it is! Download for Safari 18.6 and Safari 26 beta.

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uBlock Origin Lite App - App Store

Download uBlock Origin Lite by Raymond Hill on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like uBlock Origin Lite.

What do you need most from WebKit (the rendering engine for Safari that runs your HTML, CSS, JS, and more)? If you are making websites, what could we do in WebKit to make it easier for you to create fantastic experiences for your users?

Imagine one group advocates for a new web technology, and write down their ideas. And then other people have concerns about those ideas (maybe thinking it’s not well designed, not easy for developers to use, invades privacy, isn’t secure, etc)… so they are totally not on board. If those ideas end up in a web standards group anyway, and get pushed through while the original group still objects — is that a web standard or not? If a browser formally objects & refuses to ship, is it a web standard?

Now that you’ve seen what’s coming in Safari 26… web designers & developers, what do you need most to come next? If you were setting the priorities for what happens, what would you put at the top of the list?

If you make websites — as a developer, designer, product owner or more — what’s your favorite way to learn about what’s new on the web? What type of content do you find most helpful? Where are some of your favorite resources? What’s hard? What doesn’t work? Why? What do you need that you don’t have now? What do you want to learn? What could unblock you? If you could wave a magic wand, what would you want someone to make for you???

Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.

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How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired wi...