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A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
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Learn how the DOM structures your page, how JavaScript can change it during rendering, and how to verify what Google actually sees.
What happens if you rebuild a single tooltip using the browser’s native model without the aid of a library? The Popover API turns tooltips from something you simulate into something the browser actually understands. Opening and closing, keyboard interaction, Escape handling, and much of the accessibility now come from the platform itself, not from ad-hoc JavaScript.
The changes are aimed at improving the resilience of web security against quantum attacks without burdening performance.
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
Amazon sued Perplexity this month over its Comet browser, which uses AI agents to do online shopping on your behalf. This is the first major front in the war over who gets to browse the web.
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Looking at the CSS Masonry discussions and what they can teach us about the development of new CSS features. What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?
AI agents are putting headless browsing back in the spotlight. That raises questions for publishers: How much traffic is real vs. automated?
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
There’s a fundamental architectural flaw in how the internet works that most people have never heard of, but it explains nearly every frustration you have with modern technology. Why your pho…
Perplexity launched Comet, its first AI-powered web browser, on Wednesday, aiming to challenge Google Search's dominance in online information retrieval.
The creator of Arc on browser competition, the future of the web, and where AI search fits in.
These top browser automation tools can automate your repetitive & tedious tasks on the web, including form filling, data scraping, website testing & more. Try them out in 2023 to skyrocket your productivity.
Experience a calmer, more personal internet in this browser designed for you. Let go of the clicks, the clutter, the distractions.
Eliminating URL tracking parameters forces marketers to find other attribution methods.
Firefox's continuity features work better than any browser I've tried.
What every web developer must know about mobile networks, protocols, and APIs provided by browser to deliver the best user experience.
Chapter 16, Reusing Previous Computations, is now finished!
Discover the power of browser fingerprinting: personalize user experience, enhance fraud detection, and optimize login security.
The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s produced to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network.
Google today promoted the Chrome 112 web browser to their stable channel on all supported platforms. Phoronix reports: Starting as an origin trial with Chrome 112 is WebAssembly (WASM) Garbage Collection support. Yes, garbage collection to allow for efficient support for high-level managed language...
Hi there! Today I'm going to share with you 9 useful Google Chrome extensions that I use in my daily...
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Headless browsers are mostly used for page testing, automation, and data extraction. Find out what the most popular headless browsers are and their features.
This post presents the new headless Chrome version and shows the main browser fingerprint differences that exist compare to the old headless Chrome.
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
Brave Search, the browser developer's privacy-centric Internet search engine, is celebrating its first anniversary after surpassing 2.5 billion queries and seeing almost 5,000% growth in a year.
Island is among the fastest companies to reach unicorn status
The CSS Object Model is a set of APIs allowing the manipulation of CSS from JavaScript. It is much like the DOM, but for the CSS rather than the HTML. It allows users to read and modify CSS style dynamically.
Debug and optimize your web applications with Chrome DevTools.
That's a wrap for responsive images — we hope you enjoyed playing with these new techniques. As a recap, there are two distinct problems we've been discussing here:
Exploring the relationship between JavaScript and the modern HTML DOM
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A great feature that is available in almost every browser allows you to reject the cookie consent popup.
We are pleased to announce that Firefox 87 will introduce a stricter, more privacy-preserving default Referrer Policy. From now on, by default, Firefox will trim path and query string ...
Here is how you can build an advanced AI fingerprinter detector by refining it to take the dynamic behavior of JavaScript files into account.
A browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.
A look at how Chrome extensions affect CPU usage, page rendering, and browser memory consumption.
Here’s what you need to be aware of as Google begins viewing nofollow links as a hint for crawling and indexing.
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All the basics to get started with Chrome extensions
Web Components comprises a set of standards that enable user-defined HTML elements. These elements can go in all the same places as traditional HTML. Despite the long standardization process, the ...
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The verdict is in! Following 37 nominations whittled down to a shortlist of 15 by a community vote, our panel of experts has conferred and selected the top 10 web hacking techniques of 2017 (and 2016)
I'm a web developer and blogger. These are the browser extensions that I actually use right now.
Is the browser as we know it today a phase-out model? Can we use the web without it? The answer to the second question is a clear yes. Will headles...