{"id":34779,"date":"2022-01-24T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34779"},"modified":"2022-01-25T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:32:27","slug":"apple-did-not-crowdfund-focus-visible-in-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/24\/apple-did-not-crowdfund-focus-visible-in-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Did Not Crowdfund :focus-visible in Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meyerweb.com\/eric\/thoughts\/2022\/01\/24\/no-apple-did-not-crowdfund-focus-visible-in-safari\/\">Eric Meyer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/meyerweb.com\/eric\/thoughts\/2022\/01\/24\/no-apple-did-not-crowdfund-focus-visible-in-safari\/\">\n<p>A few people, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jensimmons\/status\/1484679052535660544\">Jen Simmons, gave credit to Igalia<\/a> for implementing <code>:focus-visible<\/code> by means of a crowdfunding project (more on that in a moment).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Nobody at Apple asked the crowd to fund anything. Nobody at Apple asked Igalia to crowdfund anything. They didn&rsquo;t even ask Igalia to implement <code>:focus-visible<\/code>, and then Igalia decided to crowdfund the work. In fact, all of those assumptions get things almost exactly backwards&#x202F;&mdash;&#x2009;which is understandable! It&rsquo;s what we expect from our experience of how the web has developed since at least the late 1990s. But here, something new happened.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Of its own volition, Igalia decided to experiment with the idea of letting the web community (the &ldquo;crowd&rdquo;) vote for implementation of a missing browser feature with their wallets (the &ldquo;funding&rdquo;).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-did-not-crowdfund-focus-visible-in-safari-update-2022-01-25\">Update (2022-01-25): <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2022\/01\/a-webkit-feature-was-crowdfunded-let-the-dunks-begin\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2022\/01\/a-webkit-feature-was-crowdfunded-let-the-dunks-begin\/\">\n<p>I sure wish I could crowdfund features that Apple doesn&rsquo;t care about in my favorite apps and have Apple add them to its code base! But only in very particular circumstances&mdash;when there&rsquo;s an open-source project at the core&mdash;can it happen. And yet when it happened in this case, the reaction in some quarters was to complain. Why am I not surprised?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Meyer: A few people, including Jen Simmons, gave credit to Igalia for implementing :focus-visible by means of a crowdfunding project (more on that in a moment). [&#8230;] Nobody at Apple asked the crowd to fund anything. Nobody at Apple asked Igalia to crowdfund anything. They didn&rsquo;t even ask Igalia to implement :focus-visible, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-01-24T21:31:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"89a94173-42ba-47ab-99b3-f1cf972cf8c4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-01-25T21:32:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AialBc0K6R6uZs_HPlyz4xA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[338,31,2078,30,2077,991,103,328],"class_list":["post-34779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-css","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-open-source-software","tag-safari","tag-webkit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34798,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779\/revisions\/34798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}