Tag: Browsers
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Six lessons for a cookieless future
Posted on March 25, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Cookies — small files that websites put on your computer to store information about your preferences — are relied on by 81% of companies for marketing and growth, according to a recent report by Twilio. But browsers, such as Google Chrome, plan to phase out cookies by 2024, reportedly to appease concerns from their audience. By Tom Ritchie.
Tags web-development app-development miscellaneous browsers frontend
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Introduction to Web Audio API
Posted on March 12, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A critical part of WebRTC is the transmission of audio. Web Audio API is all about processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. It allows developers to create complex audio processing and synthesis using a set of high-level JavaScript objects and functions. By Madhu Balakrishna.
Tags apis devops web-development app-development miscellaneous browsers
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The ultimate guide to redirects: URL redirections explained
Posted on November 10, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Redirects send users from one URL to another. The first URL is the one the user clicked, typed in, or otherwise requested. The second is the new destination URL. By Kelly Lyons, senior blog editor @ Semrush.
Tags browsers app-development web-development search
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Using Watir to automate web browsers with Ruby
Posted on November 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Browser automation describes the process of programmatically performing certain actions in the browser (or handing these actions over to robots) that might otherwise be quite tedious or repetitive to be performed manually by a human. By Jude Ero.
Tags tdd performance app-development web-development browsers
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What is a Web3 browser and how does it work?
Posted on October 20, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Web3 browsers like Brave allow users to access DApps, integrate cryptocurrencies and surf over the decentralized web with greater privacy and security. The phrase "Web3" is used to characterize multiple evolutions of web interaction and usage along various paths, including creating a geospatial web, utilizing artificial intelligence tools and making content available through numerous non-browser apps or Web3 browsers. By Onkar Singh.
Tags browsers miscellaneous crypto infosec
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DuckDuckGo vs. Google: An in-depth search engine comparison
Posted on May 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Which search engine is better at finding the information you want, fast? We compare the features of DuckDuckGo and Google. By Sam Hollingsworth.
Tags search how-to browsers big-data cio analytics
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Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
Posted on May 7, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
My initial focus was to introduce Web Components as the new fundamental building block of all new DevTools features and UI. With the recently launched Recorder panel along with others, there are now large parts of DevTools that are almost exclusively web components. By Jack Franklin.
Tags web-development react app-development javascript browsers
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How to create your own Google Chrome extension
Posted on February 15, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
If you are a Google Chrome user, you've probably used some extensions in the browser. Have you ever wondered how to build one yourself? In this article, I will show you how you can create a Chrome extension from scratch. By Sampurna Chapagain.
Tags browsers javascript web-development app-development
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The file system access API with Origin Private File System
Posted on February 14, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It is very common for an application to interact with local files. For exampe, a general workflow is opening a file, making some changes, and saving the file. By Sihui Liu.
Tags browsers javascript web-development cio
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Privacy fines: GDPR sanctions in 2021 exceeded $1 billion
Posted on January 20, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Privacy regulators in Europe last year imposed known fines totaling more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, bolstered in part by two record-breaking sanctions, according to the law firm DLA Piper. But sanctions approach varies widely across 31 countries complying with privacy law. By Mathew J. Schwartz.
Tags infosec cio management web-development browsers miscellaneous analytics
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Deep-dive: VideoNG
Posted on September 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This post is a part of a series on the Chromium rendering engine. The team is responsible for the web facing APIs for video playback like MSE and WebCodecs, and the platform specific internals involved in demuxing, decoding, and rendering audio and video. By Dale Curtis.
Tags browsers ux miscellaneous frameworks
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Safari isn't protecting the web, it's killing it
Posted on July 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
I have seen some interesting rebuttals, most commonly: Safari is actually protecting the web, by resisting adding unnecessary and experimental features that create security/privacy/bloat problems. That is worth further discussion, because it's widespread, and wrong. By Tim Perry.
Tags browsers cloud javascript infosec