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Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions
The Story So Far As part of an effort to increase user security and privacy, Chrome is planning a number of changes to the extensions pla...
How we hash our Javascript for better caching and less breakage on updates
One of the problems we use to see frequently on Green Felt happened when we’d update a Javascript API: We’d add some parameters to some library function and then update some other files so that they called the function with the new parameters. But when we’d push the changes to the site we’d end up with few users that…
If is Evil when used in location context (2015)
Learn how to deliver, manage, and protect your applications using F5 NGINX products.
Mozilla Firefox 3.5RC1 is out
v.3.5, released June 30th, 2009 Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest version of Firefox. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, either using this feedback form or by filing a bug in Bugzilla .
A History of HTML (1998)
The events and circumstances that led to the World Wide Web's current popularity
New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret
Posted by Jon Perlow, Gmail engineer Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over te...
Yahoo Query Language will be retired on January 3
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Unwritten Google Webmaster Guideline: Don't End URLs in .0
Many of you saw this post from seoco.co.uk this morning (or its Sphinn thread) about our Web 2.0 Awards being removed from Google's index. We noticed the same thing late last night and spent some time this morning going through what could have happened. We ...
How Google should have acquired EtherPad
How Google acquired EtherPad How the acquisition probably went down. EtherPad is one of my favorite companies and we have mentioned it from…
How Google uses HTML5 to reduce startup latency for mobile Gmail
On April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. We shared the behind-the-scenes stor...
Reddit launches self-serve ad tool (buy a sponsored link for as little as $20)
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
WebKit: 3D Transforms
WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS.
JQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
JQuery UI 1.7 Released: New domain, New CSS Framework & Dramatic Updates to Controls
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Preview of WebKit’s WebGL / Canvas 3D
Yesterday, I was updating my local checkout of WebKit and I noticed a few tests for "WebGL" scroll by (view commit). Apparently, a big WebGL…
Read files in JavaScript | Articles
How to select files, read file metadata and content, and monitor read progress.
Web Vitals | Articles
Essential metrics for a healthy site
Why ContentEditable is Terrible
Or: How the Medium Editor Works
A New, Optional Way to Share and Discover Music, TV and Movies
We’re making conversations quicker and easier.
jQuery Joyride Plugin
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Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass
Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass, a recently-announced privacy-preserving protocol developed in collaboration with researchers from Royal Holloway and the University of Waterloo.
Creating a React App
The library for web and native user interfaces