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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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How Google should have acquired EtherPad
How Google acquired EtherPad How the acquisition probably went down. EtherPad is one of my favorite companies and we have mentioned it from…
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How Google uses HTML5 to reduce startup latency for mobile Gmail
On April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. We shared the behind-the-scenes stor...
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Reddit launches self-serve ad tool (buy a sponsored link for as little as $20)
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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What Does $14 Million Worth of PageRank Look Like?
CircuitCity.com is back after Systemax purchased the brand and domain at bankruptcy auction for $14 million. Systemax also owns TigerDirect.com and acquired CompUSA last year. CircuitCity.com was quickly relaunched last week to capitalize on the remaining brand strength and traffic to the website.
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WebKit: 3D Transforms
WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS.
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The best way to load external JavaScript
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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JQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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JQuery UI 1.7 Released: New domain, New CSS Framework & Dramatic Updates to Controls
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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HTTP Conversation Codes
I mapped HTTP status codes to workplace conversation snippets. "404: I have no idea what you're talking about." "502: Bob is refusing to work with me on this." Now available as a poster. Note how the spec reveals programmers always blame the client.
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Preview of WebKit’s WebGL / Canvas 3D
Yesterday, I was updating my local checkout of WebKit and I noticed a few tests for "WebGL" scroll by (view commit). Apparently, a big WebGL…
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Read files in JavaScript | Articles
How to select files, read file metadata and content, and monitor read progress.
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Mac-Assed Mac Apps
Link to: https://inessential.com/2020/03/19/proxyman
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Why ContentEditable is Terrible
Or: How the Medium Editor Works
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HTTP Archive: jQuery
A recent thread on Github for html5-boilerplate discusses whether there’s a benefit from loading jQuery from Google Hosted Libraries , as opposed to serving it from your local server. They referenced the great article Caching and the Google AJAX Libraries by Steve Webster.
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Metacrap
Version 1.1, May 18 2001. Changed section orders for better organization. (Thanks, Raffi). Clarified "metrics" in 2.6 (Thanks, Andy).
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Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!
Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day! In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project, home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online. It took some doing. There is comedy. First, the fun stuff: Until now, home.mcom.com and all URLs under it just redirected…
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On Javascript Performance1. Techempower Rankings
A review of Javascript performance. Part 1 - Techempower Rankings.
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A New, Optional Way to Share and Discover Music, TV and Movies
We’re making conversations quicker and easier.
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Subdomains and subdirectories
Towards the tail end of PubCon, I noticed a spate of articles talking about subdomains and subdirectories in Google, and I wanted to talk more about this subject in case I was unclear. Historically…
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Presentational and Container Components
You’ll find your components much easier to reuse and reason about if you divide them into two categories.
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jQuery Joyride Plugin
ZURB is a product design company that helps businesses create better experiences through research-driven design strategy, interaction design, and branding.
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How Plex is doing HTTPS for all its users
This week Plex , a self-hosted media server, announced that they now offer TLS to secure all connections, including those to the user’s servers. This is actually pretty interesting.
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Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass
Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass, a recently-announced privacy-preserving protocol developed in collaboration with researchers from Royal Holloway and the University of Waterloo.
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Creating a React App
The library for web and native user interfaces