Windows is a platform for creators Windows is the most open platform on the planet for creators. Part of living our commitment to openness is welcoming partner technologies and content that deliver powerful experiences. And what makes Window
Quick: what is this? If the word “Button” comes to mind, you might be right. Unfortunately we’ve been seeing a lot of instances in our testing where an image or CSS styling is used to trigger an action of some kind. Here are some markup samples:
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With video uploads now generally available, developers have even more ways to collaborate on GitHub. Try it out for yourself!
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
Since I first started working on my website at age fourteen, the site has gone through many revisions, and hopefully changed for the better. This blog was originally dynamically served using a Python/Flask backend, having a custom login system and post “editor” (just an input box). One of the more strange things about…
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has long been a convenient file exchange mechanism between computers on a network. While this standard protocol has been supported in all major browsers ...
Deno 1.13 stabilizes the native HTTP server, and introduces FFI, a streaming WebSocket API, the new self.structuredClone() function and more.
QR codes are now critical infrastructure here in NSW, Australia. Let's learn how to make them better.
Announcing Material You: The latest release from Material Design. Learn about the next stage for Material Design.
Fine-tune your font files and optimise your loading strategy for maximum speed + minimum FOUT
Let’s look at some positive developments that will provide a path forward for Jekyll users.
I started a Twitter conversation last week about API endpoints that stream large amounts of data as an alternative to APIs that return 100 results at a time and require …
The Streams API allows JavaScript to programmatically access streams of data received over the network and process them as desired.
Our continual investments in the performance of Chrome have led to significant improvements in battery life, memory, and the speed of the we...
An analysis of modern messaging, and the evolutionary next steps.
API versioning is a really difficult topic, and sometimes seen as a merely religious debate. It’s done differently at different companies, and different teams within different companies often vary. Some folks move from approach A to approach B, and when approach B solves their specific issues they act like
Yes, hiding HTTP-referers on your outgoing links are still a thing. Even though standards evolved, they rely on your user having a current browser, which is really something outside of your control. Even then, many larger websites have technologies in place to mask the http-referer on outgoing links. This is to avoid…
UPDATE 2025-05-19 Somewhat un-suprisingly AWS has closed the loophole that I was exploiting for this https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/#30._AWS_Lambda and as such compiling data into your lambda …
If you've landed on this page because you saw a strange message on a completely different website then followed a link to here, drop a note to the site owner and let them know what happened. If, on the other hand, you're on this page because you're
In part 1 I dove into Spotify Codes and explained the general technical concepts of how they work. If you haven’t read that post you should check it out. I shared it on reddit where it generated a lot of interesting discussion. Ludvig Strigeus, a key early developer at Spotify and the person who invented Spotify…
Today, we are thrilled to announce Windows 11 will start to become available on October 5, 2021. On this day, the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs that come pre-loaded with Windows 11 will start to
The HTML standard doesn’t provide web authors the tools required to embed small video files in a screen and bandwidth responsive way. This needs to change.
Portal was a passion project that we built to experiment with other ways of moving data between phones and computers. We built the slickest app we could and have continued to support the app, site and server for over 6 years now.
