2011
Windows On ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too
For the past eight years, users and developers have enjoyed a Windows platform environment that offered users a choice of browsers to navigate their digita
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Web & Frontend
The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
2012
V8 release v6.6
V8 v6.6 includes optional catch binding, extended string trimming, several parse/compile/runtime performance improvements, and much more!
2013
Firefox Developer Edition 38: 64-bits and more
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox, we unveiled Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser created specifically for developers. At that time, we also announced plans to ship a ...
2014
CSS Architecture
To many Web developers, being good at CSS means you can take a visual mock-up and replicate it perfectly in code. You don't use tables, and you pride yourself on using as few images as possible. If you're really good, you use the latest and greatest techniques like media queries, transitions and tra
2015
Access Control for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages now gives you the option to limit access, making the site visible only to users with access to the repository that published the Page. With access control, you…
2016
JQuery 1.5.1 released, includes full IE 9 support
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
2017
2018
Removing XSLT for a more secure browser
Prepare for Chrome deprecating and removing XSLT from the browser.
2019
Enabling the Future of GitHub's REST API with API Versioning
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
2020
Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages now supports IPv6 for all Pages hosted on *.github.io and custom domains. Documentation for enabling IPv6 with custom domains can be found here.
2021
2022
Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
2023
Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Video Codecs
MediaKind – Simplified video streaming, powering the world’s most iconic brands Simplified video streaming, powering the world’s most iconic brands.
2024
The UX of HTML (2023)
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
2025
2026
Tauri Mobile – Develop Mobile Apps with JavaScript and Rust
Studio Terabyte is a full stack web development studio who finds and builds solutions that fit your project
2027
Supabase Auth: SSO, Mobile, and Server-Side Support
Supacharging Supabase Auth with Sign in with Apple on iOS, Single-Sign-On support with SAML 2.0, and PKCE for server-side rendering and mobile auth.
2028
Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Python, Flask and Twilio
Create a WhatsApp chatbot using Python & Flask with Twilio's API. Follow our step-by-step guide to build, deploy, & enhance your chatbot. Start building with Twilio.
2029
2030
Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web
Advancing the state of the art of HTTP/2 to deliver a faster user experience. See why it matters and how much of a differenc
2031
Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser
Hey, folks! Today we want to talk about the wonderful read-eval-print-loop (REPL) . Thanks to WebAssembly (Wasm), it's becoming increasingly common for programming language websites to embed a REPL in which passersby can easily evaluate code and get a feel for the language without having to install anything on their…
2032
Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps
We encourage you to dive in and explore the ocean with Google Maps.
2033
2034
Firebug 1.12 – New Features
Firebug team released fresh new Firebug 1.12 and here is a list of some new features we have implemented in this version. Firebug 1.12 is compatible with Firefox ...
2035
2036
We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
We rendered the top 1 million pages on the web, tracking every conceivable performance metric, logging every error, noting every requested URL. To our knowledge this produces the first dataset that connects performance, errors, and library use on the web. In this article we analyze what the data can tell us about…
2037
2038
Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP
Why we dropped Playwright and switched to raw CDP for faster, more capable browser automation.
2039
Firefox 39.0 released
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
2040
CSS Nesting Module
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.