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Analysis Claims Discovery of Selective Transaction Filtering in Bitcoin Mining Pools
21.11.2023
A recent analysis by 0xB10C, a developer and onchain analyst, has uncovered intriguing findings in the Bitcoin network. The study, which focuses on the mining pools’ transaction selection processes, revealed that certain transactions from U.S. Treasury-sanctioned addresses were missing from...
Sony and Astar Network Launch Web3 Incubation Program for NFT and DAO-Focused Projects
19.2.2023
On Feb. 17, 2023, Tokyo-based Sony Network Communications announced that it is co-hosting a Web3 incubation program with the multichain smart contract platform Astar Network. The program has started accepting applications, and Sony and Astar will jointly mentor Web3 projects “focused on...
When is it OK to Disable Text Selection?
14.9.2022
Using CSS, it’s possible to prevent users from selecting text within an element using user-select: none. Now, it’s understandable why doing so might be considered “controversial”. I mean, should we be disabling standard user behaviors? Generally speaking, no, we …
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CSS Custom Highlight API: The Future of Highlighting Text Ranges on the Web
1.3.2022
Styling ranges of text in software is a very useful thing to be able to do. Thankfully, we have the CSS Custom Highlight API to look forward to because it represents the future of styling text ranges on the web.…
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How to Create Actions for Selected Text With the Selection API
28.4.2021
Click, drag, release: you’ve just selected some text on a webpage — probably to copy and paste it somewhere or to share it. Wouldn’t it be cool if selecting that text revealed some options that make those tasks easier? That’s …
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A Whole Bunch of Places to Consider Contrast in a Single Paragraph
23.12.2019
When we're thinking about choosing colors in design, we're always thinking about accessibility. Whenever colors touch, there is contrast and, if we're talking about the color contrast of text, it needs to be high enough to be readable. This benefits people with a variety of visual disabilities,...
A Super Weird CSS Bug That Affects Text Selection
12.11.2019
You know how you can style (to some degree) selected text with ::selection? Well, Jeff Starr uncovered a heck of a weird CSS bug.
If you:
Leave that selector empty
Link it from an external stylesheet (rather than <style> block)
Selecting text will have no style at all....