667: Jen Simmons on Declarative Web Push, Form Control Styling, & More
Show Description
Jen Simmons stops by to talk about new CSS and Safari features like Form Control Styling, Declarative Web Push, Typography, contrast-color(), and more.
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Guests
Jen Simmons
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Safari & WebKit Evangelist. Member of the CSS Working Group. Webmaster since 1996.
Links
webkit.org
Safari Release Notes
WCAG 2.0
contrast-color() function
APCA Color Contrast Tool
Color.js Release
Lea Verou’s page on color contrast
Declarative Web Push
Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
CSS Forms Level 1 Specification in Progress
<input type="color" colorspace="display-p3" alpha>
line-height units
Home | Open UI
text-wrap: pretty
margin-trim
CSS shape() function
Two Lines of Cross-Document View Transitions Code
725: Safari is the New Chrome - Jen Simmons of Apple
Wes and Scott talk with Jen Simmons about the latest updates to Safari, reporting bugs to Apple, understanding color in CSS, new CSS switch controls, and testing your websites in Vision Pro hardware.
Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:03 Brought to you by Sentry.io
01:05 Meet Jen Simmons.
03:15 Safari has been killing it lately
Safari Release Notes
WebKit Features in Safari 17.0
WebKit Features in Safari 17.1
WebKit Features in Safari 17.2
10:25 Wes’ cOnSpirACy about Apple and APIs
18:18 Where is the best place to report bugs to Apple?
Bugs.Webkit.org
Jen on Mastodon
Web Compat
20:35 What’s happening with CSS Color gamuts and models?
33:57 Is contrast color ever going to to land?
36:25 Where is the CSS Grid and Masonry proposal at?
44:20 Will we be able to target a specific row in a grid?
46:17 What are CSS switch controls?
48:44 How can web devs view their websites in Vision Pro devices?
Apple Vision Pro
Running your app in Simulator or on a device
54:26 In what ways are HTML / CSS / JavaScript running where we don’t realize it?
58:43 Sick Picks
Sick Picks Jen: Walking.
Shameless Plugs Jen: webkit.org X
Feedback Assistant at Apple
Sessions - WWDC23 - Apple Developer
Webkit Standards Positions
Safari Technology Preview
Safari Technology Preview Release Notes
What’s new in CSS at WWDC23
Rediscover Safari developer features at WWDC23
What’s new in Web Apps at WWDC23
Meet Safari for spatial computing at WWDC23
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Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads
S2:E6 - Who decides the future of CSS? (Jen Simmons)
Working with CSS can be frustrating, and sometimes just plain painful. But if you listen to Jen Simmons talk about CSS, her passion for it might rub off on you. She gives tips on how to make your next CSS adventure more enjoyable, explains how the CSS working group determines new features, and shares the honest ups and downs of her own coding journey.
Show Links
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Peter Griffin CSS gif
CSS Working Group
The Web Ahead
UC Browser for Android
Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
Codeland Conf
Codeland 2019
Jen Simmons
Jen is a Designer and Developer Advocate at Mozilla, where she advocates for web standards and researches the coming revolution in graphic design on the web. She’s spoken at events including SXSW, An Event Apart, Fluent, Generate, Future of Web Design, and Respond. Her talk, Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts, was awarded Best Conference Presentation at CSS Dev Conf 2014.
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