Metaverse 💞 beyond.picturesOct 18
»#Study reveals #userpreferences for #socialmedia in the #ARmetaverse.« https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-reveals-user-social-media-ar.html?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
Study reveals user preferences for social media in the AR 'metaverse'

Augmented reality (AR) is when digital content is superimposed on the physical world by devices like smart glasses—a future sometimes described as the metaverse. While AR technology has a stronghold in contexts such as games like Pokemon GO, it still has a lot to prove before it's accepted into the mainstream.

Tech Xplore
sprungmarkers (she / her)Aug 16, 2025
@OddBird gets deeper into #userPreferences #a11y and default #fontSizes
https://www.oddbird.net/2025/07/22/size-preferences/
Designing for User Font-size and Zoom

Using modern CSS units and math functions

OddBird
InautiloMar 24, 2025

#Design #Debates
In defense of fluid typography · A discussion on reimagining fluid typography https://ilo.im/162w48

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#Font #Typography #Accessibility #UserPreferences #Browser #FluidDesign #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

In defence of fluid typography

This is a response to Miriam Suzanne’s excellent post on Reimagining Fluid Typography. She poses lots of really interesting questions, some of which I disagree with, but most of all they got me thinking… and writing.

Show threadKent PitmanFeb 17, 2025

@Aphelion

I applaud the concern about alt text. One of my best friends is blind, and I like to see her properly supported in her online experience.

But sometimes it works to ask people to edit posts to add alt text on images. Not everyone knows about alt text at all, and some people who try to include it forget sometimes, or don't realize they can edit it in after the fact. I try to always assume that this error, when it happens, is not an intentional slight, and so is a learning opportunity. And especially where good content would otherwise be lost, it seems worth the effort.

Mastodon has user preferences to make the absence of alt text show up visibly or to just filter out things that lack alt text ... BUT (strangely) it has no preference I can find that says "warn me if I'm posting something that would need such a flag". There should be such a preference and it should default to ON.

I consider it a major faux pas in design to beat someone up for something technologically when you could have just dissuaded or prevented the bad thing with an equal application of technology.

#Mastodon #Preferences #UserPreferences #UI #UX #accessibility #WebAccessibility #AltText

Sinclair-SpeccyJan 2, 2024

Do you use an ad blocker while browsing the internet?

Pls boost for a wider reach

#Mastodon #Fediverse #AdBlocker #InternetBrowsing #UserPreferences #Ads #Internet

Yes, always
90.8%
Yes, occasionally
5.4%
No, never
3.8%
Poll ended at .
BestMacFlyDec 15, 2023
Why should I use #Userpreferences in my app if I have already #SwiftData in use? #swiftui #swift #iosdev
Show threadctrg190Sep 20, 2023

draft - Samsung is a monopoly that stifles innovation. Samsung deliberately withholds giving users the option to use multiple user profiles on Samsung phones, which is monopolistic. Samsung should be investigated and broken up.

related: data privacy, app/data segregation, multiuser, guestmode, work/personal profiles

#samsungmonopoly
#antitrust
#innovation
#samsung
#android
#stifleinnovation
#userpreferences
#androidmonopoly
#multiuser
#multipleuserprofiles
#guestmode
#secondspace
#thirdspace
#androidmultiuser
#androidmultipleuserprofiles

Show threadctrg190Sep 20, 2023

draft - Samsung is a monopoly that stifles innovation. Samsung deliberately withholds giving users the option to use multiple user profiles on Samsung phones, which is monopolistic. Samsung should be investigated and broken up.

related: data privacy, app/data segregation, multiuser, guestmode, work/personal profiles

#samsungmonopoly
#antitrust
#innovation
#samsung
#android
#stifleinnovation
#userpreferences
#androidmonopoly
#multiuser
#multipleuserprofiles
#guestmode
#secondspace
#thirdspace

Show threadctrg190Sep 20, 2023

draft - Samsung is a monopoly that stifles innovation. Samsung deliberately withholds giving users the option to use multiple user profiles on Samsung phones, which is monopolistic. Samsung should be investigated and broken up.

related: data privacy, app/data segregation, multiuser, guestmode, work/personal profiles

#samsungmonopoly
#antitrust
#innovation
#samsung
#android
#stifleinnovation
#userpreferences
#androidmonopoly

InautiloJul 17, 2023

#Development #Reviews
Writing CSS In 2023 · Is it any different than a few years ago? https://ilo.im/145tp0

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#WebDevelopment #WebDev #Frontend #CSS #ContainerQueries #StyleQueries #CascadeLayers #CssNesting #CssIs #CssWhere #DynamicViewportUnits #ColorSpaces #ColorFunctionSyntax #MediaQueryRangeSyntax #UserPreferences

Writing CSS In 2023: Is It Any Different Than A Few Years Ago? — Smashing Magazine

CSS is evolving faster than ever. With all of the new features that are now available — and forthcoming — since we got Flexbox and Grid years ago, the way we write CSS is evolving, too. In this article, Geoff Graham shares which features have had the most influence on his current approaches to CSS, as well as those that have not (at least yet).

Smashing Magazine