Platforms are competitions, and the web is losing. We need to do a very concrete, relatively easy set of things to claw our way back.
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Platforms are competitions, and the web is losing. We need to do a small set of very concrete, relatively easy things to claw our way back.
So why aren't we?
A consolidated thread from last week:
Platform Strategy and Its Discontents - Infrequently Noted
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.
Infrequently Noted (infrequently.org)
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@slightlyoff I was on this bandwagon a few years ago and kind of lost hope and fell off. These days I am somewhat resigned to the web retiring into a desktop-only platform. At least enterprise/productivity tools can thrive there! (See: my current employer.)
One slight ray of hope: a lot of "time spent on native mobile" is really "time spent on a 90% WebView/ReactNative app with a native shell." These devs are still keeping the flame of webdev alive; they could maybe switch to a PWA someday.
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@slightlyoff Couple typos: distrubing -> disturbing, "research publish" -> "published research"
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@llimllib Cheers! Fixing.
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@nolan As you know, I'm not OK with resigning the only open client-side platform to the dustbin just because it was convenient for a few mega-corps and a cozy community of privilege-bubble dwellers.
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Maarten Stolte 🍋replied to Nolan Lawson last edited by
@nolan @slightlyoff the last bit I’m hoping for, a sorry Trojan horse but for the banking world I’m in we need a lot more things that are available in native
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Alex Russellreplied to Maarten Stolte 🍋 last edited by
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Maarten Stolte 🍋replied to Alex Russell last edited by
@slightlyoff @nolan at least nfc access to read id documents, other things may be solvable with e.g Fido but otherwise native like pin or face scan access. And of course we’d need to get users to use this instead of native
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Alex Russellreplied to Maarten Stolte 🍋 last edited by
Interact with NFC devices on Chrome for Android | Capabilities | Chrome for Developers
Reading and writing to NFC tags is now possible on Chrome for Android.
Chrome for Developers (developer.chrome.com)
Build your first WebAuthn app | Google for Developers
Learn how to build a website with a simple reauthentication functionality that uses a fingerprint sensor.
Google for Developers (developers.google.com)
Anything else?
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Maarten Stolte 🍋replied to Alex Russell last edited by
@slightlyoff @nolan for nfc the issue is I think the type of support; https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_NFC_API vs https://www.icao.int/Security/FAL/PKD/BVRT/Pages/Document-readers.aspx but it’s been two years since I looked at it. Webauthn I know but it’d still require a major change on our side , that’s why I mentioned it as a possible option but not ideal
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Alex Russellreplied to Maarten Stolte 🍋 last edited by
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@slightlyoff If it wouldnt be too much trouble, I'd love if this table could be sorted by each column.
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@nickchomey Sure.
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@nickchomey Fixed (in a very hacky way).
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@slightlyoff Works great! Didn't even need React!
One nitpick - perhaps move the links for the INP, LCP and CLS articles from the column headers to a footnote of the table, so that we dont click them when trying to sort?
And, perhaps add something (be it a simple caption above, or perhaps even a sort indicator in the column headers) to notify people that it is sortable?
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@nickchomey Yeah, I thought about the links, then thought about going to bed. Good suggestion on the footnote placement.
