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1904

Marzipan: Porting iOS Apps to the Mac

With macOS Mojave, Apple is adding support to bring apps written in UIKit to macOS without the requirement of having to rewrite the UI in AppKit. This is not yet officially supported — this post will explore what we can expect in 2019 and how you can use Marzipan today.

1914

Protecting Against HSTS Abuse

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a security standard that provides a mechanism for web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections, and to tell web browsers where to go to get that secure version.

1915

Electron 6.0

The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 6.0.0! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. The release is packed with upgrades, fixes, and new features. We can't wait to see what you build with them! Continue reading for details about…

1916

Announcing AMP Real URL

The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly.

1919

Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet

Upgrading a security protocol in an ecosystem as complex as the Internet is difficult. You need to update clients and servers and make sure everything in between continues to work correctly. The Internet is in the middle of such an upgrade right now.