Tag: web browsers
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Proposal to allow specifying a text snippet in a URL fragment
Chrome's implemented an experimental feature to allow deeplinking to arbitrary text content, which is awesome (with Dan's comments).
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A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
The little-told story of how a rogue team of YouTube engineers in 2009 helped hasten IE6's downfall by adding a deprecation warning to the top of the site's homepage...
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remysharp comments on "Bringing back the Web of 1990"
A MetaFilter comment I somehow missed in which Remy Sharp acknowledges my debugging of the CERN hackathon to reimplement WorldWideWeb. Squee!
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Edge Blink and Progressive Web Apps
Dan investigates the pioneering Progressive Web App features of Edge Dev.
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Yet Another JavaScript Framework
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It is impossible to answer all of these questions simply. They can, however, be framed by the ideological project of the web itself. The web was built to be open, both technologically as a decentralized network, and philosophically as a democratizing medium. These questions are tricky because the web belongs to no one, … -
Debugging WorldWideWeb
His Geek Flag held high, Dan proposes a minor bugfix to some software that almost nobody cares about.
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WorldWideWeb, 30 years on
To celebrate the Web's 30th birthday, some of Dan's favourite geeks reimplemented the very first browser.
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Microsoft exec riles Firefox faithful by telling Mozilla to embrace Chrome - CNET
Microsoft staffer pokes finger into Twitter beehive by saying Firefox should join Chrome, not fight it (CNET) Debate: Does Mozilla have more influence as a Chrome rival or ally? ...
"Thought: It's time for @mozilla to get down from their philosophical ivory tower. The web is dominated by Chromium, if they really *cared* about the web … -
CSS-driven console graphics
There's an Easter egg in danq.me which you can see in your browser's debug console.
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We need a movement of developers and enthusiasts who loudly, proudly, use @mozilla @firefox as their primary browser....
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Browsers
by Jeremy Keith I’ve been using Firefox as my main browser for a while now, and I can heartily recommend it. You should try it (and maybe talk to your relatives about it at Christmas). At this point, which browser you use no longer feels like it’s just about personal choice—it feels part of something …
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Goodbye, EdgeHTML
Microsoft is officially giving up on an independent shared platform for the internet. By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google.
This may sound melodramatic, but it’s not. The “browser engines” — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla — are “inside baseball” pieces of software that actually … -
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While we Blink, we loose [sic] the Web
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We used to have much more diversity in terms of browser engines years ago than we do today. This is easy to understand as the Web in 2018 is far more complex than it was in the early noughties. It is very costly to develop and maintain a Web engine and few companies have the … -
Risking a Homogeneous Web
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I don’t think Microsoft using Chromium is the end of the world, but it is another step down a slippery slope. It’s one more way of bolstering the influence Google currently has on the web.
We need Google to keep pushing the web forward. But it’s critical that we have other voices, with different viewpoints, to … -
Edge may be becoming Chromium-powered, and that's terrible
It's rumoured that Edge might switch to Chrome's rendering engine. This would be really, really bad for the web, and it takes a 90s/00s web developer to remind you why.