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Customize the Contextual Menu of a Mac WKWebView

vrijdag 24 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alexander Clauss: Under iOS the WKWebView class provides a delegate method which allow to customize the contextual menu of the web engine (the menu which opens when long-pressing a link). Unfortunately under macOS the WKWebView does not provide such…

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Yandex CEO Resigns

vrijdag 24 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Simon Sharwood (Yandex, Hacker News): Arkady Volozh, CEO of Russia’s biggest internet company Yandex, has resigned after being added to the European Union’s list of individuals sanctioned as part of its response to the illegal invasion of Ukraine.Ya…

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Festival of Artisanal Software: Summer 2022

donderdag 23 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SummerFest: The new season brings new plans, fresh projects, and great new ideas. Whether you’re mapping out your next novel, finishing your dissertation, planning a product, or writing memories for your grandkids, these great tools will help. As is…

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Finding the “To” Address in iOS Mail

donderdag 23 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Birchler: Mail helpfully shortens the “To” value to just me, which is fine, but I would expect to be able to tap on my name and see which email address this was sent to. Instead, I get this[…] It just loads my contact card with all my emails li…

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Testing SwiftUI for Mac After WWDC 2022

donderdag 23 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sarah Reichelt: In December 2019, I wrote a series of articles about using SwiftUI to build a Mac app. And in July 2020, I re-visited the sample app to apply the new SwiftUI features made available in macOS BigSur. Now that macOS Ventura and Xcode 1…

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Flag Icons to Change the Input Source

donderdag 23 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber: [As] part of a company-wide effort to decouple national flags as icons to denote languages, the Input menu in MacOS now uses two letter codes instead (“US” for U.S. English, “GB” for British, etc.). [The] new policy does make sense for …

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Verified Brand Logos in Apple Mail

donderdag 23 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: iOS 16 and macOS Ventura add support for the Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) standard in the Mail app, helping users to easily verify authenticated emails sent by brands by displaying the brand’s logo alongside the …

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Limiting iMessage’s Disk Usage

woensdag 22 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Steve Troughton-Smith: It blows my mind that Apple lets Messages-in-the-cloud suck up all the available local storage without giving you any real way to cap or reduce its size on disk without deleting the masters in iCloud. Can’t uninstall either. T…

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SwiftUI Scrolling Finally Works on tvOS

woensdag 22 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Daniel Saidi: One example where SwiftUI ended up costing me both time and money, was the first tvOS project that I did on my newly started company.[…]Scrolling with HStack, VStack (and in SwiftUI 2), LazyHStack, LazyVStack, LazyHGrid, LazyVGrid just…

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iOS 16 Automatic Verification

woensdag 22 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Tapping on images of traffic lights or deciphering squiggly text to prove you are human will soon be a much less common nuisance for iPhone users, as iOS 16 introduces support for bypassing CAPTCHAs in supported apps and websites. […]…

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Broken Renewal of MAS Receipts

woensdag 22 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lukas Kubanek (FB9789052, tweet): I started integrating on-device App Store receipt validation into my Mac app, currently not utilizing StoreKit for any kind of in-app purchases. I followed the documentation and employed a check that calls exit(173)…

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Mail Merge Returns to Pages

dinsdag 21 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Moren: The feature was originally included in Apple’s word processing software, but got the axe in 2013’s version 5.0, when Apple redesigned its iWork suite to give even footing across the iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms. In the interim, Mail M…

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SwiftUI Change Log

dinsdag 21 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kuba Suder: I made a thing: SwiftUI Index/Changelog - an alphabetical index of all SwiftUI views, modifiers, property types etc. + changelog for each version, auto-generated from official documentation. See also: Code Workshop and SDK News. Previous…

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Review of the Mighty Browser

dinsdag 21 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jacob Russell (via Hacker News): At its core, Mighty lets you run a chromium browser in a virtual machine on a beefed up computer that streams the data to your personal computer. Mighty’s bet is browsers will start to act more like operating systems…

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WWDC Lab More Useful Than Feedback

dinsdag 21 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Bugs are an inevitable part of the development process. Though they can be frustrating to bump up against, you can help squash these sorts of problems quickly by identifying the issue you’re running into, reproducing it, and filing a bug repo…

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Removed From Bing and DuckDuckGo

maandag 20 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson (Hacker News): It turns out that my business web site was removed from Bing, which explains why it’s missing from DuckDuckGo.[…]According to the link in the results, “Bing limits removal of search results to a narrow set of circumstance…

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Kagi Search and Orion Browser Public Betas

maandag 20 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kagi (Hacker News): I (Vladimir Prelovac, Founder) started this company when I saw my children starting using the web and realized how unsafe and bad an experience it was for them. All the ads and distractions were not only detrimental to their expe…

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Thoughts on SwiftUI After WWDC 2022

vrijdag 17 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Casey Liss: Dear Apple developers, Buckle up, or get left behind. 💙, Josh Shaffer I’m super pleased that Apple has picked a direction, and is [slightly more consistently] pointing in a single direction. However, even as someone who [mostly, on a goo…

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SwiftUI Changes at WWDC 2022

vrijdag 17 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

What’s new in SwiftUI: Join us as we share the latest updates and a glimpse into the future of UI framework design. Discover deep levels of customization, advanced techniques for layout, elegant strategies for sharing, and rock-solid structural appr…

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Swift 5.7 Announced

vrijdag 17 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

What’s new in Swift: We’ll take you through performance improvements, explore more secure and extensible Swift packages, and share advancements in Swift concurrency. We’ll also introduce you to Swift Regex, better generics, and other tools built int…

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iCloud Shared Photo Library

vrijdag 17 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Benjamin Mayo: As Apple presented it, it seemed like the shared library would be tied to the Family Sharing system; the six users are the six people in your Family Sharing group. That would certainly be the Occam’s razor approach, removing the need …

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