shalanah

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Software Engineer - focused on interactive UIs

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Comment · 7 months ago
Of course! Thanks!
Comment · 7 months ago
Yep - the site has a point of view but rooted in real data that you can filter as you'd like.

I've had real-world experiences where I develop something that works on my Mac and my Pixel phone but cannot work on iOS WebKit (basically kaputt on iPhones). It inspired the creation of the site - specifically not being able to allow users to have Audio at anything but 100% seemed extremely weird.

I'm not offended by sites that also point out issues with a slant against Google. Ie: killedbygoogle - I think these things are great, fun, and interesting.

Comment · 7 months ago
Hi! Creator here (of iOS404) - you can filter level of standard and compare to FF Android (or compare to Safari Desktop, or any mix) instead if you'd like.
Comment · 1 year ago
FF Update: Gecko based Firefox isn’t as performant as WebKit/Chromium on desktop/mobile devices when it comes to some canvas operations (even on offscreen!). I was able to greatly improve performance on desktop by limiting how much I drew and played with UV coords instead. That unfortunately wasn’t enough for FF on Android. Had to turn off “live” snowflake rendering for android. It does feel snappy on draw you just don’t get the “live” snowflake preview till you close a drawn shape. On FF Android the snappy draw is worth the trade off.
Comment · 1 year ago
Update: Think I have found a way to speed it up for Firefox (and everyone else too!). On holiday with the fam so might take a couple days before I push a fix. I'm optimistic though!
Comment · 1 year ago
Aw! Fills my heart with joy that she's inspired to code and you both enjoy it!
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You can download as SVG! There is a screenshot JPG, fold + cut template PDF, and simple shape SVG download on the site.
Comment · 1 year ago
So glad you enjoy it! And yes, I love web apps too!

Happy holidays + New Year!

Comment · 1 year ago
Oh wow both Orion + Arc on iOS have the same UA as Safari and are testing positive for SFSafariViewController (an experimental test).

I'll look into other ways to not confuse SFSVC with these browsers.

Interestingly - downloads on Arc work really well but they are poorly done in Orion (open in a new window without clear option to download).

I use inappdebugger.com for testing exit links, UA, downloads etc.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'll take a look, thanks for the heads-up!
Comment · 1 year ago
I'll take a look. Perhaps my inapp detection is throwing false positives. I also detect for SFSafariViewController because of the bad UX downloading experience there. Maybe it is catching your browser as well.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hi Diti, are you talking about the inapp link to Safari? If so - it's the only reliable escape link for ios. It should work on other WebKit browsers as well but no reliable inapp escape link is available for the default browser on ios anymore. There use to be another ios workaround but they closed it. Basically downloads don't work on inapp browsers and I need some way to get you out of them.

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