A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
One of the features that shipped with Chrome 76 is “Paint Holding”. It’s a technique that removes the “flash of white” – e.g. the white page you briefly see while the browser is loading the next page – when navigation between two pages on the same origin, thus delivering a smoother experience to the user. …
If you’re not too fond of Google but do want a Chromium-based browser that is as close to Google Chrome as it can be (along with some extras), be sure to check out Ungoogled Chromium: ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services. It also features some tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and …
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Once again a highly entertaining video by Heydon Pickering. This time he’s tackling ES Modules: how and where (e.g. in which browsers) can you use them? 💁♂️ Even if you already know how to ship ES2015 JavaScript to browsers the video still is worth your time, as it’s very fun to watch!
Jonathan Davis – Web Technologies Evangelist for Apple – has done a writeup on the new features that have landed in Safari 12.1, which is included with macOS Mojave 10.14.4 and iOS 12.2. This release delivers web platform features that improve website integration with the operating system, new real-time communication capabilities, more compatible encrypted media …
Jake Archibald discovered a really nice browser bug (which is fixed by now) by which he was able to steal data from remote sites by loading it in as a (fake) wav file. The exploit works as follows: Make a request to evil-script, using a Content-Range header to suggest there’s more data to be loaded …
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When using babel-preset-env with the list of supported browsers set to “last 2 versions” – which I am doing used to do – you’re basically supporting browsers that are dead or have no users. Take Internet Explorer for example. It’s been replaced by Edge and will never have any new versions after Internet Explorer 11. …
Shipping with Chrome 66 is an implementation of the new Async Clipboard API. Its asynchronous nature makes it the preferred way – over document.execCommand – to perform copy-paste operations in the browser. // Write Text to the Clipboard (e.g. copy) navigator.clipboard.writeText(‘Text to be copied’) .then(() => { console.log(‘Text copied to clipboard’); }) .catch(err => { …
https://stripe.ian.sh/ is an interesting site by Ian Carroll. See it? Take a closer look at the certificate. Yes, that’s one for “Stripe, Inc” … but, that’s not “Stripe, Inc” is it? This site uses an EV certificate for “Stripe, Inc”, that was legitimately issued by Comodo. However, when you hear “Stripe, Inc”, you are probably …
<img>: Gif without the GIFIn the latest Safari Tech Preview it’s now possible to use MP4 files in <img> tags. Intended use case is short, muted, looping video. Colin Bendell digs deeper into this. By enabling true video formats (like MP4) to be included in <img> tags, Safari Technology Preview has fixed performance and UX problems. With it, our …