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When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts
When demoing Hyperview to new engineers, there’s one comment that frequently comes up about the HXML data format:
Personal names around the world
How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?
How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?
HTML5 Games Workshop: Make a Platformer Game with JavaScript
I have always wanted to run a game development workshop, and some weeks ago, thanks to AdaJS in Barcelona, I finally got my chance. Empezamos con lleno el taller ...
Full third-party cookie blocking and more
This blog post covers several enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in iOS and iPadOS 13.4 and Safari 13.1 on macOS to address our latest discoveries in the industry around tracking.
Target's EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection
An article by Anonymous : Target's patented EasySweep device protects guests' data from skimmers.
Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox
Search engines have been using structured data for years to understand the information on web pages and provide richer search results. Today...
Firefox 90 supports Fetch Metadata Request Headers
We are pleased to announce that Firefox 90 will support Fetch Metadata Request Headers which allows web applications to protect themselves and their users against various cross-origin threats like ...
ECMAScript 2016+ in Firefox
After the release of ECMAScript 2015, a.k.a. ES6, the ECMAScript Language Specification is evolving rapidly: it's getting many new features that will help developing web ...
Sustaining Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Ryan Sleevi, Software Engineer This post updates our previous notification of a misissued certificate for google.com Followin...
What 2023 will bring for PeerTube
We (Framasoft, a small not-for-profit association!) are proud to present our roadmap for the developments and side projects we have planned for PeerTu...
How we use web components
GitHub has long been a proponent of Web Components. Here's how we use them.
How to Bypass Cloudflare: A Comprehensive Guide
Learn the best hands-on techniques to bypass Cloudflare Bot Management. Understand how it works, its sensor data, and evade detection.
Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020)
There is more than just console.log()
An Open Letter to Members of the W3C Advisory Committee
Dear member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Advisory Committee, You may have heard that over the past year we've been trying to insert legal safeguards into the Encrypted Media Extensions project at the W3C, which standardizes streaming video DRM. We've previously been opposed to the W3C...
Tilt: Visualize your web page's DOM in 3D
Tilt is a Firefox extension that lets you visualize any web page DOM tree in 3D. It is being developed by Victor Porof (3D developer responsible with the Firefox extension ...
Electron 2.0.0 beta
Electron's latest releases, versions and release notes.
Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution
A member of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered two vulnerabilities in the popular Zoom video chatting application that could allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code on victims’ machines. Video conferencing software has skyrocketed in popularity during the COVID-19…
Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
By: Steven Bassett
Publish your PWA to the iOS App Store
Announcing PWABuilder's new iOS platform. Publish your PWA to the App Store and gain new iPhone and iPad users.
A rundown of the new Gmail
Time for an upgrade.
Push notifications are now supported cross-browser
Push notifications were standardized in 2016 with the release of the Push API and the Notification API, which are part of the W3C's Web Applications Working Group. These APIs provide the necessary functionality for web developers to incorporate push notifications into their web applications and for users to receive…