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Re:Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web by internetter on Sunday April 07, 2024 @01:53PM (#39962411)
> aka for the rest of the world not using swiftUI

Fun fact: Apple doesn't let us use CAFilter in SwiftUI. It's a "them" privilege, and if we want it we need to do it ourselves*, just like you

* or obfuscate the code and continue in the great game of cat and mouse: https://github.com/aheze/VariableBlurView/blob/main/Sources/...

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Re:Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web by ivanjermakov on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:28PM (#39963116)
Walled garden (with barbed wire)
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Re:Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web by internetter on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:08PM (#39963440)
While it’s not great to provide a UI library but not give developers all of the UI components, theoretically you could implement this yourself — so it’s the least of your concerns: https://boehs.org/node/private-apis
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Re:Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web by devslovecoffee on Sunday April 07, 2024 @02:32PM (#39962700)
Wow, didn’t even know that. Guess I’ll update the post with this “fun” fact
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