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Using SVG as image placeholders
I’m passionate about image performance optimisation and making images load fast on the web. One of the most interesting areas of…
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,465 posts.
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Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
We are pleased to announce that Firefox 87 will introduce a stricter, more privacy-preserving default Referrer Policy. From now on, by default, Firefox will trim path and query string ...
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I'm betting on HTML
AI Use Disclaimer: I wrote this post and then GPT-4 fixed my grammer and spelling
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Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...
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Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls
A month ago I ran into an obscure Google Chrome bug on macOS that caused the "All cookies and site data" page in Chrome settings ( chrome://settings/siteData ) to load very slowly. You can see this page if you open Preferences, select "Privacy and security", "Cookies and other site data", and then "See all cookies and…
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DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
We're excited to announce that map and address-related searches on DuckDuckGo for mobile and desktop are now powered by Apple's MapKit JS framework.
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Cloudflare acquires Astro
The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now.
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Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds
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Firefox 64 Released
The year's last release of Firefox bundles together goodies for all, including multi-tab management in the interface, new CSS features, devtools improvements, better privacy protections, add-ons updates, and much, much ...
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Spinning Diagrams with CSS
This article discusses using CSS to make spinning 3D diagrams.
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Scrollbars are becoming a problem
Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem. I would show you…
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Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
Security on the web matters. Whenever you connect to a web page and enter a password, a credit card number, or other sensitive information, you want to be sure ...
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Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Here's a fun experiment to try. Take an open source project such as yt-dlp and try to find it from a very generic term like "youtube downloader". You won't be able to find it because of all of the content farms that try to rank at the top for that term. Even though yt-dlp is probably actually what you want for a tool…
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GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it
I recently started having issues with the admin interface of a website I run and decided to check the browser console to see if any errors were being displayed there. There were and among them was an error stating that a JavaScript map file being loaded (and failing) that I did not recognise. This meant that the…
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Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Team [Updated on 12/5/16 with instructions for developers] Developers : Read more about how to ...
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Kagi News
A comprehensive daily press review with global news. Fully private, with sources openly curated by our community. News is broken. We all know it, but we've somehow accepted it as inevitable. The endless notifications. The clickbait...
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Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search. Privacy Pass is an authentication protocol first introduced by Davidson et al., in [1], and recently standardized by the IETF as RFCs [2—4]. Our...
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Opera moves to WebKit
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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Chrome ships WebGPU
The Chrome team ships WebGPU, which allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web.
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Ending our Medium integration
Sometime in the past few weeks, Medium abruptly deleted third-party access to their publishing API. There was no warning before, or notic...
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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name.
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A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
What is surprising is that a 14kB page can load much faster than a 15kB page — maybe 612ms faster — while the difference between a 15kB and a 16kB page is trivial.
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How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections . Even in the U.S., many users didn't have broadband speeds , making much of the web difficult to use. It's still the case that many users don't have broadband speeds, both inside and outside of the U.S. and that much of the modern web isn't…
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Developers don't understand CORS
The recent Zoom vulnerability is just one of many examples which show us that many developers do not understand how CORS works
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We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
We discovered a privacy vulnerability in Firefox Private Browsing and Tor Browser that allows websites to fingerprint and track users across origins using IndexedDB database ordering, even after closing all private windows.
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I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
As someone who prefers using services via their websites, I’ve gotten terribly jaded lately. Almost everyone wants me, and by extension, you, to use their darn apps to consume content and off their web versions.
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TailwindCSS v2.0
Today we're finally releasing Tailwind CSS v2.0, including an all-new color palette, dark mode support, and tons more!