Daniel Aleksandersen

Google #MaterialDesign v3 finally eliminates its terrible “innovative” “on-puts” in favor of traditional “inputs.” Today is a good day for usability. https://m3.material.io/components/text-fields/overview Need context? Watch this quick documentary: https://briefs.video/videos/what-happened-to-text-inputs/ Posted on Bluesky on 2025-05-06

Google #MaterialDesign v3 finally eliminates its terrible “innovative” “on-puts” in favor of traditional “inputs.” Today is a good day for usability. https://m3.material.io/components/text-fields/overview
Need context? Watch this quick documentary by @heydon https://briefs.video/videos/what-happened-to-text-inputs/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-05-06

New EEA-only feature: Third-party widgets for Windows 11’s awful widget junk drawer. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/widgets/web-widget-providers Posted on Bluesky on 2025-04-14

New EEA-only feature: Third-party widgets for Windows 11’s awful widget junk drawer. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/widgets/web-widget-providers Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-04-14

@BleepingComputer Hi, do you have an RSS feed with your featured stories only? The full feed is too noisy to follow every day, but I’d still like to follow your top stories. Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-04-09

How come the #Mozilla Pocket service/app is still so bad at saving articles? It has not improved in over a decade. It pulls in lots of junk along with the article while missing large sections of text. Confusingly, Mozilla Readability (“reader view” inside Firefox) is great at the same task. #ReadingList Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-03-01

Minor update (6) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 6.8

This update includes a security fix from Chromium upstream to resolve “CVE-2024-7965: Heap Corruption in V8”.

Autofill Settings – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3405.3

You can now manage your saved autofill credit cards and addresses in Settings: Privacy.

‘Do-Not-Track’ privacy setting gets legal backing in Germany

Legislators are finally paying attention to concerns about how our digital data is tracked, collected, and stored. Find out what this game-changing ruling means and how it could affect us.

Sync privacy incident affecting our Snapshot test users

A privacy incident affected our Snapshot test users in versions 6.4.3160.25 through 6.4.3160.30 for desktop.

Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

Microsoft announces vague changes to the default web browser setting for Windows Insider. Nothing but wishful thinking. Still force-opens web links in Edge.

The trouble with decommissioning a used FIDO security key

You can’t throw out your worn-out USB security keys when you can’t recall what locks they’re for. Physical security tokens come with their own problems.