Posts updated today:
MacBook Air 2019 and New 13-inch MacBook Pro
mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/0…
Backing Up macOS 10.15… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
WWDC 2019 Video Transcripts Now Available: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
GDPR Fines: So Now We Know: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
Hook 1.0: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
Gosh Darn SwiftUI: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
@rosyna Yeah, I’m not defending Zoom’s sketchy actions. I’m just saying that there’s a real user experience issue here.
@rosyna The crux of it is that it’s useful to be able to follow a link that does something in an app. But that can… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@rosyna Right, but it’s perfectly valid to want to follow a link from somewhere else that opens up Zoom. It sounds… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@rosyna Then how does it address the issue Zoom was trying to work around?
@grynspan @rosyna I have JavaScript URLs in my Safari bookmarks bar that send info about the current page to MarsEdit and EagleFiler.
@rosyna Right. But my understanding is that I can click a link to zoom.us and then *that page* open… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@rosyna Thanks. Doesn’t seem like universal links would address my bookmarklet use case since the domains aren’t statically known.
@rosyna I guess I don’t see how universal links prevent the problem. Wouldn’t you still be vulnerable to trampolines?
@rosyna Also, “disabling” makes it sound like they did something to Safari to turn off the feature. It’s more like… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@rosyna I think the “always” is entirely unwarranted because it assumes that the user understands what is being ask… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@rosyna Why does it ask for confirmation every single time? Besides Zoom, what apps might a user have installed tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@heathborders No.