2011
W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Web & Frontend
The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
2012
2013
New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays
A regression in external display support on Apple Silicon M4/M5 generation chips prevents full HiDPI modes on 4K monitors, limiting users to either blurry non-HiDPI or reduced workspace HiDPI.
2014
Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5
When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn’t need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools. With those three weapons in hand, we knew developers could build applications that would delight users.
2015
Metro
A version of Windows 8 with nothing but Metro looks like an excellent design for an iPad rival.
2016
Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly
The first announcement of MoonBit
2017
Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS
First devices featuring Firefox OS to be manufactured by TCL Communication Technology (Alcatel) and ZTE Leading global network operators back initiative, i
2018
Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
2019
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Modern JavaScript Tooling
A lot of developers coming to JavaScript world attracted by React.js are confused with the tooling used to produce modern JavaScript code. Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Mocha, Karma, Grunt... what should I use and which tool is doing what? JavaScript newcomers are often people coming from communities like Ruby and Java…
2020
CSRF is really dead
A little while back I wrote a blog post about how "CSRF is dead". It focused on SameSite cookies, a powerful yet simple feature to protect your website against CSRF attacks. As powerful as it was, and as much as it will kill CSRF, you had to enable it on
2021
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
Words from me as developer, student and human.
2022
JQuery Mobile 1.0
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
2023
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2025
The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering
A brief history about server-side rendering and why it's the right approach for modern web development.
2026
A simple web we own
Today, the Web and Internet are owned and controlled by large for-profit corporations and a few governments 1 . Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification 2 .
2027
Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App
Today we're introducing a desktop app so you have a new way to stay in touch anytime and anywhere - whether on your phone or computer at home or work. Like WhatsApp Web, our desktop app is simply an extension of your phone: the app mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device.
2028
Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture
Beginning last year, the internet began playing a bigger role in our lives than ever before. In the US, we went from only three percent of workers to more
2029
2030
2031
On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations
Firefox can now do offline and privacy-preserving translation of eight languages with more on the way. Powered by open-source and machine-learning.
2032
FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers
For the past several months, a small team at Mozilla has been working on an experimental new Web API and an accompanying browser feature called FlyWeb.
2033
Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
2034
2035
Making Love to Webkit
If the world is going to end in 2012, Acko.net will at least go out in style: I've redesigned.
2036
Natural language is the lazy user interface
A chatbot is the lazy user interface. It puts all the burden on the user to articulate good questions.
2037
Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
A lot of tech discussion these days is focused around scaling infrastructures to handle huge traffic. But it's important not to forget how far simple optimizations can go.
2038
Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.
2039
2040