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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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Revenue / Browser on mibbit
Here's some interesting stats from Mibbit... I checked out the average revenue generated per 1,000 visits on the main site. The data covered...
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Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022
Details of the Manifest V2 phase-out and end of life.
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Unacceptable Browser HTTP Accept Headers (Yes, You Safari and Internet Explorer)
When browsers make requests they send headers. The Accept header tells the server what file formats the browser is looking for and can understand.
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Web Cryptography API posted as W3C working draft
This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform…
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IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8)
One of the trending topics on Twitter currently is “ IE6 Must Die “, which are mainly retweets to a blog post entitled “ IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On “. This is certainly true, IE6 has many rendering bugs and lacks support for so many things that it is simply a nightmare to work with. The amount of time and…
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Chrome Gets Plugins: How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy Steps
I just installed a “hello world” Chrome extension from this Chrome Extension tutorial page. When you surf to www.google.com, the Google logo is replaced with a Lolcat: Here’s how …
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W3C dumps XHTML2 to concentrate on HTML5
W3C has compiled this list of questions to help public and W3C Members alike understand the future development of XHTML in the W3C.
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Computing with JavaScript Web Workers
Web Workers are, undoubtedly, the coolest new feature to arrive in the latest version of web browsers. Web Workers allow you to run JavaScript in parallel on a web page, without blocking the user interface.
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Twitter Exploit Still Works
I bet 10 years ago none of us thought that 140 characters would change the landscape of Social Media quite so much. However, with close to 289,000,000 active users sending around 6,000 tweets every second Twitter has proven its critics wrong. Obviously, having gotten over …
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Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)
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The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout
3 column website layouts in Flexbox, CSS Grid, and Responsive Columns, along with live demos, the HTML, and CSS to make them work.
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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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Google Knol is Evil
Google Knol gives its own content unfair PageRank advantages over competitors, which is an abuse of monopoly power. Google has crossed the line from organizing the world's information to stealing traffic from better sources and monetizing the theft. This is evil, plain and simple.
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Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WYSIWYG editor
For a while we’ve been exploring switching to WYSIWYG text editing in our products. Up until this point we’ve been using either plain text, manual HTML, or Textile formatting. Depending on who you are it’s either fine or annoying. We want to do a lot better. We’ve looked …
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Official Gmail Blog: Fast PDF viewing right in your browser
Posted by Marc Miller, Software Engineer When I get sent a PDF, sometimes I just want to view it -- I don't always need to download and sav...
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Cappuccino’s FlickrDemo in 45 lines of jQuery
When I first saw 280 North’s “ 280 Slides ” application, I have to admit I was very impressed. They built a truly native-feeling (well, if you’re on a Mac) tool on the standard web platform. Not an easy feat, and clearly some big brains operating on the problem.
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