“Should masonry be part of CSS grid?” by @shadeed9

🔗 https://ishadeed.com/article/css-grid-masonry/

> An exploration of examples showing masonry as both a part of CSS Grid and as its own display type.

Ahmad provides compeling use cases and code examples showing that making masonry layout “just” a specific use case for CSS Grid could be the best choice.

So… that's not what I thought a month ago… 😅

Anyway, the most important part in…

#CSS #Grid #Masonry

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2024/10/31/should-masonry-be-part-of-css-grid/

The main effect of introducing a new CSS logo, if it catches on, will be to make busywork for many people who could be doing things other than updating graphics. For what value? The standard dingbat in optional shield is immediately recognizable. It works well small, monochrome, as vector. The dingbat is stylized to the point of non-semantic icon. CSS doesn't need to be marketed or promoted, it has market saturation for life. There won't be any new eras, each module is on its own version.

#CSS

The State of HTML survey will close soon 🚨

It has an entire section on Web Apps & results are used for browser roadmaps!

Tell them what you're missing, tell them what needs to be fixed e.g. Install Prompts, Wake Lock, Notifications or interop issues

https://stateofhtml.com/

there's a fearmongering post going about fedi right now about Copilot+ Recall supposedly being installed on consumers' PCs in the latest Win11 v24H2 release, and a lot of people are rightfully angry about that given MS' past intentions.

there's three catches to this here, though:

• Recall hasn't existed in any public Win11 v24H2 build since June 2024 - it only appeared for like two preview CUs and three Insider Preview builds in total (for ARMv8 only) before it got removed entirely. whatever remains of it is a Windows Feature Experience Pack application stub that quite literally contains nothing related to the feature. I'd also double-checked the UserExperience-AIX (Windows AI Extensions) CBS component manifests in the latest AMD64 and ARMv8 CUs for GE_RELEASE and it doesn't exist there either. the only OS builds where it is present is GE_RELEASE_SVC_IM .712, GE_RELEASE_SVC_BETAFLT_PROD1 .751; and GE_PRERELEASE builds 26227.5000, 26231.5000, and 26236.5000
• even if Recall were to ship publicly later down the line, it would only work on a very specific family of ARMv8 SoCs (specifically starting from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3/X Elite) and AMD64 CPUs that feature a so-called "neural processing unit" capable of achieving a performance of at least 40 TOPS, and the only known CPU microarchitectures that even support that are AMD Strix Point (Ryzen AI CPU family) and Intel Lunar Lake (14th-generation Intel Core family).
• using the feature for the first time would also prompt you to download the needed ML model components it requires before it can start functioning.

to that, I say: I implore people to at least have the time and patience to double-check whatever it is you're really looking at and saying before you put it out wide on the Internet.

EDIT: correction issued on supported Intel CPU microarchitectures capable of running Recall

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Y'know, everyone was so concerned about Threads "extending and extinguishing" ActivityPub, no one noticed that's exactly what Mastodon seems to do, whether intentional or not.

The AP protocol leaves *A LOT* to interpretation, which is not a great thing for a protocol to do. Mastodon extended it by necessity. And, while the team has posted some information about it, it's hard to find, hard to follow, and not particularly up to date.

Would be good to see this all folded back tot he AP spec.