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Private Access Tokens: eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs with open standards
Today we’re announcing Private Access Tokens, a completely invisible, private way to validate that real users are visiting your site
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Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap and Next Steps
It’s been about a year since our last update regarding Manifest v3. A lot has changed since then, not least of which has been the formation of a community group ...
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Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
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Gaining security and privacy by partitioning the cache | Blog
Chrome's HTTP cache partitioning helps with better security and privacy.
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How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
In this article, Carson Gross explores how the term REST (Representational State Transfer) evolved to mean nearly the opposite of its original definition in modern web development. It traces how REST, originally defined by Roy Fielding to describe the web's architecture of hypermedia-driven interactions, came to be…
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Kagi/Orion status update: First three months
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago. We thought we'd give a full status update. If you are new to Kagi - Kagi search is an attempt to make the...
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</> htmx ~ When Should You Use Hypermedia?
This essay by Carson Gross explores when to use hypermedia in web development, highlighting its advantages and trade-offs. Carson discusses scenarios where hypermedia is a good fit, such as text and image-heavy UIs, CRUD applications, and nested UIs with well-defined areas. He also addresses when hypermedia may not be…
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Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
Mermaid is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that takes Markdown-inspired text definitions and creates diagrams dynamically in the browser.
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A History of HTML (1998)
The events and circumstances that led to the World Wide Web's current popularity
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Postgres WASM
We're open sourcing postgres-wasm, a PostgresQL server that runs inside a browser, with our friends at Snaplet.
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Moving from React to htmx
David Guillot at Contexte gave what we are calling 'The Mother of All htmx Demos' at DjangoCon 2022. This essay summarizes this real-world case study of replacing React with htmx in a SaaS product, demonstrating significant improvements in code size, performance, and development team efficiency through the adoption of…
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Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
HTTP/2 Server Push will be disabled by default in Chrome 106
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Using WebTransport
The WebTransport API offers low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
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A Proposal for Type Syntax in JavaScript
Today we're excited to announce our support and collaboration on a new Stage 0 proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript. Because
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The case for JPEG XL
The recent decision by Chrome developers to no longer support JPEG XL has sent a ripple through the developer community and is a bit premature given the relative newness of the image format.
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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
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Using CRDTs for multiplayer text editing
From the Zed Blog: A detailed exploration of Zed's eventually-consistent text representation.
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SmooshGate (2021)
What can SmooshGate teach us about standards development and the Web Platform? This write-up gives an overview.
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WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser
We made a server-less virtual Linux environment that runs unmodified Debian binaries in the browser. This is powered by CheerpX, a WebAssembly virtualization platform. Feel free to play with it and report bugs: https://webvm.io
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State of CSS
Web styling features of today and tomorrow, as seen at Google IO 2022, plus some extras.
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Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
New versions of Brave will hide—and, where possible, completely block—cookie consent notifications. Brave's approach is distinct and more privacy-preserving than similar systems used in other browsers.
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Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call
Hopefully in-person meet-ups will prove much easier in 2022 - but, there’s still a need for video calls, so let’s face it, they’re here to stay. This makes it really exciting to present Element Call: the world’s first decentralised voice and video conferencing app powered entirely
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React v18.0
The library for web and native user interfaces
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DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a free email forwarding service that removes multiple kinds of trackers and lets you create unique private email addresses.
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Next.js Layouts RFC: Nested routes and layouts, designed for Server Components
Nested routes and layouts, client and server routing, React 18 features, and designed for Server Components.
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Give me /events, not webhooks
Learn about the challenges of webhooks for service-to-service notifications. And why an `/events` endpoint is often preferable.
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We're improving search results when you use quotes
How snippets in Google’s search results are being improved by forming them around where quoted words or phrases occur in a web document.
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Prime Video Uses WebAssembly
The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed.
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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin
WebKit supports new API that makes it possible for web apps to create, open, read, and write files directly, or create directories and enumerate their contents.