For those of you who use your iPad while cooking to display recipes, the Cook Mode feature found on some websites, such as Food and Wine, shown below, is a welcome addition. It simply stops your screen from dimming or turning off while it's enabled. You can achieve the same effect by going into your settings and turning the battery-saving feature off, but it's much easier to simply click the checkmark.
Being the curious techie type, I wanted to know how Cook Mode works. It's accomplished by using the Screen Wake Lock API (Application Programming Interface) that's available in relatively recent versions of all the major web browsers. Not that any of you really care about that...
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