Safari extension development: icons

from blog The Desolation of Blog, 7 Jul 2021 | ↗ original

I'm working on bringing my Safari extensions StopTheMadness and Tweaks for Twitter from Mac to iOS, and it's progressing well! During this process I've noticed that there are some platform-specific differences between Safari iOS and Safari Mac extensions, as indeed there are between Safari Mac extensions and Google Chrome extensions, even though they all use the same cross-platform Web Extension format. (There's an older Mac-specific Safari app extension format, but that won't be available on iOS.) One easily noticeable platform-specific difference is the extension icons. Safari unfortunately tends to eschew the use of color now: you can see that all of Safari's built-in toolbar items are grayscale. If you're porting your Chrome extension to Safari Mac, you may notice that your toolbar item suddenly seems out of place and conspicuous; it's almost like landing in Kansas after having been to the land of Oz. Ironically, the Safari toolbar itself gets color in macOS Monterey, but not the toolbar items.

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Safari extension development: icons

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