brucel.bsky.social
Bruce Lawson
@brucel.bsky.social
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Web standards a11y lovegod who leverages synergies at Vivaldi browser. Musician. He/ him. Conversation on mastodon, at @[email protected]. Bluesky is broadcast-only, as I've been disappointed by non-Fediverse platforms before. Personal views. RT≠+1.
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 6h
The accessibility overlay fact sheet that @5t3ph.bsky.social alluded to at #smashingconf is at overlayfactsheet.com/en/
Overlay Fact Sheet
An open letter about accessibility overlays.
overlayfactsheet.com
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 7h
He was one of the talking people on stage!
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 9h
Learning about Visa Chart Components at #smashingconf - open-source accessible data visualisation web components design.visa.com/data-visuali...
Visa Product Design System
Learn how to use Visa Chart Components with the Visa Product Design System for ease and efficiency.
design.visa.com
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 9h
Paging @tkadlec.bsky.social
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 9h
Learning about Incremental Font Transfer at #smashingconf, a W3C spec to decrease the perceived latency for downloading web fonts - particularly useful for CJK and other non-Latin scripts. www.w3.org/TR/IFT/
Incremental Font Transfer
www.w3.org
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 1d
AT #smashingconf, @tkadlec.bsky.social is reminding us that betting on the browser (rather than JavaScript abstractions) is our best chance of long-term success.
Tim Catnip on stage
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 1d
I'm in New York, which is a bit different from original York, repping @vivaldi.com and @browserchoicealliance.org who are sponsoring @smashingconf.com.
Me and Ashley in front of sponsor board listing Browser Choice Alliance (and Microsoft Edge!) Me in a NYC street
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 4d
Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.
Plaque: Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End. "THEY SHALL NOT PASS""
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 16d
Computing some preliminary analysis over the #StateOfHTML pain points data and some …interesting patterns are emerging 🙃
Two Pie charts titled "Complaints about specific browsers" showing about half Safari browser, around a third Firefox, and about a sixth Chrome Two Pie charts titled "Complaints about specific vendors", one titled "All complaints" and the second "Explicitly about interop". The first is showing around 55% Apple, with a tiny sliver of Microsoft and the rest split evenly across Google and Mozilla, whereas the second is 100% Apple. Two Pie charts titled "Mobile vs desktop", one titled "All complaints" and the second "Explicitly about interop". Both are showing about a third desktop and two thirds mobile. Two Pie charts titled "Complaints about specific platforms", one titled "All complaints" and the second "Explicitly about interop". The first is showing around three quarters iOS, around 15% Android, a tiny sliver of Linux, and the rest split evenly across MacOS and Microsoft Windows. The second chart is >80% iOS, with the rest being Android.
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Rick Byers @rbyers.net · 5d
I believe it's fundamentally impossible to ship Chrome on iOS meeting the same high quality bar we have on other platforms when we are forced to rely on WKWebView and very slow and unreliable issue handling.
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 5d
This is Apple. It just works (tm)
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 5d
Developers! If you want to distribute software "applications" that don't depend on the whims of multi-billion dollar organisations romantically linked to illiberal regimes across the globe, there's a brand new vague-but-exciting technology you can use, called "the Web"! pwa.dev
PWA
Progressive Web App
pwa.dev
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 5d
I'm jolly glad that @vivaldi.com is once again sponsoring the fantastic State of the Browser conference, curated lovingly by its crew of splendid volunteers. 2026.stateofthebrowser.com/supporters/ - See you there, I hope!
Supporters | State of the Browser
Help us make State of the Browser 14 even better by supporting us.
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
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SmashingConf @smashingconf.com · 6d
At SmashingConf NY next week, say hi to @brucel.bsky.social from the @BrowserChoiceAlliance.org — they stand for choice in desktop browsers. Their coalition includes big names (Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, etc.), all working to keep innovation alive and fair. Glad to have you on board!
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 6d
כְּתִיבָה וַחֲתִימָה טוֹבָה to all my Jewish chums. xx
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 6d
כְּתִיבָה וַחֲתִימָה טוֹבָה to all my Jewish chums. xx
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 6d
Prolonging the life of another Windows 10 machine by installing Linux while keeping a Windows look and feel. Thanks, ZorinOS! Naturally, Vivaldi is available from the Software store, and LibreOffice is pre-installed. My 80 year old mum took very little time to feel at home with it.
ZorinOS 17 installation screen The software store started from the Start menu
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 6d
Inside the Microsoft Excel Championships www.huckmag.com/article/micr... "You could hear a pin drop in the room, but on the YouTube live stream, it’s getting wild."
Revenge of the nerds: Inside the Microsoft Excel UK Championships
The Obsessives — Microsoft Excel turns 40 today, But behind the spreadsheets lies a world of brains, brawn and all-out bloodsport.
www.huckmag.com
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 6d
I have given the Malaysian Competition authority a jolly good piece of my mind* after reading some misapprehensions about Web Apps.

(*It was the occipital lobe, which in my experience is the tastiest.)
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 6d
A website to show you places with rude names. Splendid.
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Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 6d
Day 2, maps (content warning, lewd!): sarajoy.neocities.org/weirdwebocto...

#WeirdWebOctober
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 6d
Splendid stuff. You forgot "Lickey End" (not far from me, and a stone-throw from Bell End). And, of course, Wetwang.
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 6d
It was like two different plays, separated by the interval.
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 7d
Depending on where that link is coming from, you can click it away. There is an x you can use to remove it from history and the like. That is available in the URL dropdown.
If it is a bookmark, you can delete the bookmark or you can uncheck the setting to prioritize bookmarks.
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 7d
Good question... I'm about to finish for the day and drive to the theatre but will get back to you tomorrow
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 7d
Epic says it has proof Apple was scaring users off third-party app stores
But Google still makes them intentionally difficult to install. www.theverge.com/news/789421/...
Epic says it has proof Apple was scaring users off third-party app stores
But Google still makes them intentionally difficult to install.
www.theverge.com
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