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As Mozilla’s Web Extensions project is getting closer towards being usable, quite a few people seem to expect some variant of Chrome’s permission prompt to be implemented in Firefox. So instead of just asking you whether you want to trust an add-on Firefox should list exactly what kind of permissions an add-on needs…
In Unix, everything is a file. This is often viewed as a positive, but it's often a poor abstraction for many things. This discussion goes into some of the issues.
How it shall look… Linux & BSDs Windows macOS State on Fedora 40 Workstation & XFCE Spin… Screenshots taken from the GNOME bugtracker, copies to not stall their GitLab instance. I think that is rather unpleasant and for e.g. the left icon-only border just an unusable insult.
We've just cut a new release for Bootstrap 3, RC2. It's a big release as lots has changed, but that should all be for the better. Thanks everyone who's given…
I’ve seen a lot of captions over the years, and there’s one thing I can tell you with certainty: The way that custom controls and the HTML video element interact right now is inadequate, and I think th...
I'm probably a bit biased - being a front-end web developer for a few years will do that - but I really enjoy writing Javascript. I've recently retreated from
JavaScripters often complain about the complexity of React. But to ClojureScripters, React is very nice. What's the difference? In this article, we explore 6 mistakes Reacters make, including mutable state everywhere, Lifecycle Methods and, non-reusable components.
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Describing content blocking rules in a structured format ahead-of-time, rather than running extension-provided code.
Hold on to your data by keeping it in your own database
More than a year ago, Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis approached us about a project they were working on. Dubbed CDNJS, the project had a noble goal: make the world's Javascript resources load as fast as possible.
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls). These buttons just launched…
Just last week, a comment that I made on Hacker News resulted in an interesting email from an AWS customer! He told me that he runs a single page app that is hosted on S3 (read about this in Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3) and served up at low latency through Amazon CloudFront. […]
2 days after I published ‘“Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history’, Stylish was pulled from the Chrome and Firefox stores. The story echoed around parts of the internet for a few days, my name was misspelled on several right-wing British news websites, and I felt that I’d helped make the world a…
Intro With current hot topic of ditching Google services wherever and whenever we can, we often forget about that little piece of JavaScript code embedded in …
Firefox Quantum is now available in Developer Edition, and this Firefox is fast. Today’s release is a major milestone towards our next-generation browser, and includes Quantum CSS, Firefox's new CSS ...
Fingerprinting Firefox users with cached intermediate CA certificates (#fiprinca) ...
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We begin by writing a few helper functions that will invariably prove useful to us later. We will be dealing with a lot of rectangular regions on the screen, so it makes sense to start by defining a rectangle structure and write some code to manipulate it.
