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Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022
Details of the Manifest V2 phase-out and end of life.
Unacceptable Browser HTTP Accept Headers (Yes, You Safari and Internet Explorer)
When browsers make requests they send headers. The Accept header tells the server what file formats the browser is looking for and can understand.
Web Cryptography API posted as W3C working draft
This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform…
IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8)
One of the trending topics on Twitter currently is “ IE6 Must Die “, which are mainly retweets to a blog post entitled “ IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On “. This is certainly true, IE6 has many rendering bugs and lacks support for so many things that it is simply a nightmare to work with. The amount of time and…
W3C dumps XHTML2 to concentrate on HTML5
W3C has compiled this list of questions to help public and W3C Members alike understand the future development of XHTML in the W3C.
Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WYSIWYG editor
For a while we’ve been exploring switching to WYSIWYG text editing in our products. Up until this point we’ve been using either plain text, manual HTML, or Textile formatting. Depending on who you are it’s either fine or annoying. We want to do a lot better. We’ve looked …
Official Gmail Blog: Fast PDF viewing right in your browser
Posted by Marc Miller, Software Engineer When I get sent a PDF, sometimes I just want to view it -- I don't always need to download and sav...
Droid: iDon't Understand Search Engine Optimization
I've been waiting for Verizon to announce a competitive smart phone for a quite some time. With a barely functional, 3 year old Motorola Q you better be...
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Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Announcing the New York Times Congress API
We’re pleased to announce the Congress API, which lets developers access information about Congressional representatives and their votes.
Optimizing HTTP headers for ‘ajax’ webapps
Mibbit is a fully featured IRC Client. Allowing you to interact realtime with your friends. Chat, play games, colaborate on projects together and more.
NYTimes.com Announces Map/Reduce Toolkit
Recently we’ve been exploring the on-demand storage and computation tools offered by Amazon Web Services, along with an open-source toolkit called Apache Hadoop. The result is many computers working together to answer questions about our users.
JQuery 1.2.6: Events 100% faster
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?
Earlier this year, we heard from many of you on how important speed is to your daily activities on the web. We kicked off a series of disc...
Rescuing REST from the API Winter
Simple AJAX using HTML attributes
Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX
Cinch allows you to resize your windows simply by dragging them to a screen edge
jQuery 1.3 ßeta
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library