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Privacy Study: Brave Browser Smacks Down Chrome, Firefox & Safari
26.2.2020
A study conducted by a privacy expert proves that Brave browser protects your privacy better than Chrome, Firefox or Safari
Native Image Lazy Loading in Chrome Is Way Too Eager
5.2.2020
Interesting research from Aaron Peters on <img loading="lazy" ... >:
On my 13 inch macbook, with Dock positioned on the left, the viewport height in Chrome is 786 pixels so images with loading="lazy" that are more than 4x the viewport down the page are eagerly fetched by Chrome...
Weekly Platform News: Strict Tracking Protection, Dark Web Pages, Periodic Background Sync
12.12.2019
In this week's news: Firefox gets strict, Opera goes to the dark side, and Chrome plans to let web apps run in the background.
Let's get into the news.
Firefox for Android will block tracking content
Mozilla has announced that the upcoming revamped Firefox for Android (currently available in...
Zero hands up.
2.10.2019
Asked an entire room full of webdevs yesterday if any of them knew that FF/Chrome/Opera/Brave/etc. for iOS weren't allowed to compete on engine quality.
Zero hands up.
— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) September 25, 2019
It's worth making this clear then. On iOS, the only browser engine...
Browser Engine Diversity
24.9.2019
We lost Opera when they went Chrome in 2013. Same deal with Edge when it also went Chrome earlier this year. Mike Taylor called these changes a "Decreasingly Diverse Browser Engine World" in a talk I'd like to see.
So all we've got left is Chrome-stuff, Firefox-stuff, and Safari-stuff. Chrome...
10 Useful Browser Plugins to Help Crypto Users
9.9.2019
There are many different browser extensions or plugins that benefit cryptocurrency users, ranging from price trackers and wallets to those that help crypto users with security and privacy. Bitcoin.com has produced a video, listing 10 of the most useful browser extensions with explanations of...
Weekly Platform News: CSS Scroll Snap, Opera GX, PWA Install Icon
14.6.2019
In this week's roundup, Chrome is adding an install option for Progressive Web Apps, Opera GX comes to Windows, the ECMAScript proposals get an update, and CSS Scroll Snap is coming to a Firefox browser near you.
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Weekly Platform News: Feature Policy, ECMAScript i18n API, Packaged PWAs
7.6.2019
In this week's news, a new Feature Policy API in Chrome, Firefox blocks cookies from known trackers, Chrome for Android now allows websites to share images, and more.
The post Weekly Platform News: Feature Policy, ECMAScript i18n API, Packaged PWAs appeared first on CSS-Tricks
Bitcoin Cash and SLP-Fueled Badger Wallet Launches for iOS
3.6.2019
On June 3, the popular bitcoin cash (BCH) light client Badger Wallet launched its open beta version for iOS mobile devices. Now Apple users can download the wallet in order to store, send and receive BCH alongside the ability to do the same with Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) tokens in a noncustodial...
A Deep Dive into Native Lazy-Loading for Images and Frames
15.5.2019
Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. Many of them, however, are never shown to a user because they're placed way below the fold.
What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask? Lazy-loading...
Weekly Platform News: Feature Policy, Signed Exchanges, iOS browsers
10.5.2019
👋 Hey folks! This is the first edition of a new weekly update we'll be posting that covers timely news at the intersection of development standards and the tools that make them available on the web. We often talk about the pace of change in our industry. It's fast and touches everything...
How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store
19.4.2019
PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: "Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?" The answer has traditionally been no, but this changed with Chrome 72 which shipped a new feature...
Edge Goes Chromium: What Does it Mean for Front-End Developers?
11.4.2019
In December 2018, Microsoft announced that Edge would adopt Chromium, the open source project that powers Google Chrome. Many within the industry reacted with sadness at the loss of browser diversity. Personally, I was jubilant. An official release date has yet to be announced, but it will be...
Chrome Lite Pages
19.3.2019
The Chrome team announced a new feature called Lite Pages that can be activated by flipping on the Data Saver option on an Android device:
Chrome on Android’s Data Saver feature helps by automatically optimizing web pages to make them load faster. When users are facing network or data constraints...
Novinky v DevTools Chrome 73
23.1.2019
Jaké lepší nástroje pro vývoj a webdesign přinese Chrome DevTools 73? Ukážeme si logpointy, novinku v Inspekt módu, AAA kontrastní linii a folding kódu
Better rendering for variable fonts
26.6.2018
I was messing around with a variable font the other day and noticed this weird rendering issue in the latest version of Chrome where certain parts of letterforms were clipping into each other in a really weird way. Thankfully, though, Stephen Nixon has come to the rescue with a temporary hack...
Březnová Poslední sobota #95 v Paralelní Polis
23.3.2018
31. března se v pražské Paralelní Polis opět uskuteční sraz webových vývojářů Poslední sobota – www.posobota.cz. Dopolední workshop si připravil Miloslav Hůla: Základy PostgreSQL databáze. O čem všem si budem povídat a zkoušet se…
Google Chrome začíná nativně blokovat obtěžující a rušivé reklamy
15.2.2018
Nejpoužívanější webový prohlížeč Google Chrome začíná od dneška, 15. února nativně blokovat reklamu. Google chce z webových stránek odstranit otravné a rušivé reklamy, které zhoršují uživatelský zážitek. To je z pohledu uživatelů jistě vítaný krok. Rozhodně se však neobchází bez jisté kontroverze...
Kappalizer – nástroj pro označení prostředí webu ve Chromu
1.2.2018
Jedná se o jednoduché rozšíření do Chromu, které vloží barevný pruh do záhlaví webové stránky. Pruh mění barvu podle toho, jak si ji nastavíte v rozšíření. Můžete si tedy rozlišit různá prostředí, ve…