Alex Moore

I organize @OpenWebAdvocacy and do Web Stuff

[Open Web Advocacy @OpenWebAdvocacy]

Last week, OWA spoke at the 🇪🇺EU Parliament’s Digital Markets Act Working Group on Apple’s ongoing non-compliance with the DMA and why the open web is vital for Europe’s digital future.
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[Open Web Advocacy @OpenWebAdvocacy]

Alex Moore from Open Web Advocacy joins Joe on Late Night Linux to unpack the DOJ’s case against Google, what’s promising, what’s risky, and why protecting web and platform funding is critical for the open internet.

🎧 https://t.co/1GZSREXKnP

[Alex Moore @mtomweb]

@brunostasse I love just playing with the UI. Especially that stacked card one with the 3d effect. I think people would struggle to see the difference between that and a native app.

[Bruno Stasse @brunostasse]

Silk relies heavily on web APIs, like Scroll snap and WAAPI. While building it, I also took care to anticipate new ones, like the Scroll-driven animations API.

For each feature, I reviewed and experimented with the existing APIs to see how well they fit. I also had a look at upcoming ones, and sometimes took part in the conversation to try and improve them before they shipped—like I just did with the interactivity CSS property.

Every time, I tried several solutions, sometimes deciding to go with web APIs, sometimes holding off because I realised they were not yet ready, like <dialog>. I considered performance, accessibility and flexibility to arrive at a solution that enabled the use cases I wanted Silk to cover.

Silk isn’t just about appearance—it's unstyled by default. Its design is the result a lot of thoughtful work and experience with the web, aiming to be flexible, robust, and long-lasting. As new web APIs become viable, Silk will continue to evolve to make the most of them.

[Alex Moore @mtomweb]

@brunostasse Great! Will keep an eye out. Amazing work

[Bruno Stasse @brunostasse]

Introducing Silk — The most advanced swipeable sheet ever engineered for the web.

Native-like experience • Works on all devices • Unlocks dozens of UI patterns on the web.

Available for React.

[Alex Moore @mtomweb]

Amazing library. More so if you’ve ever tried to do something similar yourself

[Bruno Stasse @brunostasse]

Introducing Silk — The most advanced swipeable sheet ever engineered for the web.

Native-like experience • Works on all devices • Unlocks dozens of UI patterns on the web.

Available for React.

[Igalia @igalia]

🎙️New Episode of Igalia Chats

@briankardell and @meyerweb chat with @OpenWebAdvocacy's @mtomweb about the Google Antitrust case in the US and proposed remedies.

https://t.co/xDhyKlIufk

[Alex Moore @mtomweb]

@cramforce @insta360 Very impressive.

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

🎉The @CMAgovUK appears to formally agree to phase-out third-party cookies from Chrome web browsers (seen as 'reasonable'). On Apple's iOS/iPhone/iPads. Great day for competition and privacy! https://t.co/iWrEWljic9

[Alex Moore @mtomweb]

My only thoughts are, props to the engineer who decided to make secondary automatic backups… most smaller companies would have lost everything 😕

[Scott Piper @0xdabbad00]

Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider.
https://t.co/v5WFxqUtaB

[Alex Moore @mtomweb]

@PrivacyMatters This is so ridiculous you’d think somebody would be criminally liable.

[Alex Moore @mtomweb]

@bgalbs One move, one reply, stockfish until you win! Probably only take 60 days… although maybe a minor change in start time or the way you shake hands or smile and Kasparov would decide to do a different line.

[Florian Mueller @florian_m_98000]

In military terms the EU Commission's launch of five DMA breach investigations (shortly after the DMA became enforceable) would be described as a "shock-and-awe strategy.*

But some of the issues are small, such as the iOS browser choice screen. Maybe they'll get to bigger stuff.

[Alex Moore @mtomweb]

@mfosterio @OpenWebAdvocacy Can you explain to me how that would work?

Is terminal initiated challenge, devices initiated response?

Currently web nfc doesn’t do HCE. Safari doesn’t do NFC at all. Other browsers could implement it a spec in the future, but it doesn’t exit at the moment.

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

"if you buy a microwave, you don't think it's okay if you can only heat up dishes that are permitted by the manufacturer and on which they earn 30%."
Great insights from @mtomweb and the @OpenWebAdvocacy on @JSPartyFM
https://t.co/qefShNRFoK

[Open Web Advocacy @OpenWebAdvocacy]

We sat down with @JSPartyFM for 2 hours to talk about the history of OWA, the Digital Markets Act, Apple's attempt to kill web apps &amp; the fight for the future of the web! 🎉

Join us for our deepest dive yet:

https://t.co/mWMbCPe4Lx 🎧

[Open Web Advocacy @OpenWebAdvocacy]

Apple has caved yet again in the EU, this time for direct download. Browsers need both be allowed to offer direct download and control the update mechanism without scare screens.

Another DMA win!

https://t.co/2biySvpKOv