A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Chrome 80 recently got released, with some nice new features. To me the highlights are: Support for Optional Chaining SVG favicons, which also support prefers-color-scheme BTW New in Chrome 80 → 💁♂️ Also on my list of highlights is Linking to text fragments using a special URL fragment in the form of :~:text=[prefix-,]textStart[,textEnd][,-suffix]. It’s a …
UPDATE 2020.07: the thresholds have been adjusted to be less eager: We’ve improved <img> lazy-loading in Chrome! https://t.co/zx8sf7I86L The new thresholds for when we load <img loading=lazy>: * Offer *much* better data-savings* Are closer to JavaScript lazy-loading libraries* Are rolling out to Chrome 79+ pic.twitter.com/3OHm2rnRAm — Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) July 17, 2020 For the Web …
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A commit that landed in Chromium (and which will be available in Chrome 80) is support for SVG favicons. 🎉 🦊 Firefox already has support for SVG favicons, ever since version 41 Since most (all?) browsers always make a request to favicon.ico you can also serve an SVG at that location with the image/svg+xml MIME …
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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Thanks to the Trusted Web Activity feature in Chrome 72 on Android, the Google Play Store is now open for Progressive Web Apps. Chrome 72 for Android is now shipping from the Play Store to all users and this version included Trusted Web Activity (TWA), that in a nutshell is a way to open Chrome …
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Recently Wes Bos sent out this tweet: 😮 Did you know Chrome has a FaceDetector API? — Wes Bos 🔥 (@wesbos) March 20, 2018 Sparked by that tweet, João Miguel Cunha set out to play with it. The code itself is pretty simple: create an instance of FaceDetector and call .detect() on it. That promise …
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Chrome is really tightening up the security game here. In Chrome 66 it will untrust Symantec-issued SSL/TLS certificates, after Symantec has repeatedly screwed up by wrongly issuing certificates for domains, including google.com itself. Thanks to a decision in September by Google to stop trusting Symantec-issued SSL/TLS certs, from mid-April Chrome browser users visiting websites using …
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👋 This post also got published on Medium. If you like it, please give it some love a clap over there. Earlier today, in a post entitled Secure Contexts Everywhere, it was announced on the Mozilla Security Blog that Firefox from now on will only expose new features such as new CSS properties to secure …
With touching the topic “offline” in the previous post, I was reminded of the T-Rex that Chrome shows when it’s offline. Most of us think it’s just a fun little pixel dinosaur which acts as facade for a game you can play whilst there’s no active internet connection, but there’s more to it. The T-Rex …
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