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Coinbase launches standalone browser extension for Coinbase Wallet
8.11.2021
Self-custody wallets have proven extremely popular among users looking to access decentralized exchanges and NFTs
Chapter 10: Browser Wars
3.11.2021
In June of 1995, representatives from Microsoft arrived at the Netscape offices. The stated goal was to find ways to work together—Netscape as the single dominant force in the browser market and Microsoft as a tech giant just beginning to …
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Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently IV
29.10.2021
A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators — Sara Soueidan says you can make more accessible focus outlines by doing your own, rather than leaving it to the browser — as long as you do it right. Deep dive!
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Testing Vue Components With Cypress
27.10.2021
Cypress is an automated test runner for browser-based applications and pages. I’ve used it for years to write end-to-end tests for web projects, and was happy to see recently that individual component testing had come to Cypress. I work on …
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On Browser-Specific URL Schemes
26.10.2021
We’ve covered URL schemes:
A URL Scheme is like “http://…” or “ftp://…”. Those seem like a very low-level concept that you don’t have much control over, but actually, you do!
I’d call it non-trivial, but developers can register new …
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What if… you could use Visual Studio Code as the editor of in-browser Developer Tools?
22.10.2021
It’s not uncommon for my front-end workflow to go something like this:
Work on thing.
See that thing in an automatically refreshed browser.
See something wrong with that thing.
Inspect and correct the thing in DevTools.
Apply the correct code
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@supports selector()
19.10.2021
I didn’t realize the support for @supports determining selector support was so good! I usually think of @supports as a way to test for property: value pair support. But with the selector() function, we can test for selector support …
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Three-Digit Browser Versions in March 2022
19.10.2021
This isn’t supposed to be any sort of decision-making based on browser User-Agent Strings. But, ya know, collectively, we do make those decisions.
Karl Dubost notes that there is a significant change coming to them, notably moving the version …
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Bonsai Browser
14.10.2021
Web-browser for research that helps programmers think clearly.
With Bonsai, rather than being like, I’m going to go use my web browser now, you hit Option + Space and it brings up a browser. It’s either full-screen or a …
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Browser-based DeFi wallet XDEFI launches public version
12.10.2021
XDEFI will challenge MetaMask’s dominance of the browser wallet space by offering a new user experience for decentralized finance and nonfungible tokens
Cash (Tiny jQuery Alternative)
11.10.2021
The README for Cash is straightforward:
Cash is an absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers (IE11+) that provides jQuery-style syntax for manipulating the DOM. Utilizing modern browser features to minimize the codebase, developers can use the familiar chainable methods
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Exhausted Man, A Game For All Of Us Right Now
7.10.2021
I’m tired. You, reading this right now, are probably tired. Tired is a constant state of being for most of us these days thanks to, you know, everything. Now, you can play a game that’s all about being tired.Read more
The Game That Gets Easier The More Tired You Are
7.10.2021
This week’s Steam Next Fest, during which hundreds of in-development PC games released demos, features a game that really seems to care about how you’re doing just now. Please, Touch the Artwork is a puzzle adventure in which you’re allowed to prod at the paintings in an exhibition, and it picks...
New World Patch Adds Important Message: Don't Be A Dick
6.10.2021
One of the main features of Amazon’s New World is an ongoing struggle between three massive player-run factions for control of Aeternum Island. This is causing some players to behave badly, from harassing members of other factions to loudly shouting obscenities in local voice chat. Today’s update...
Help Me, I Can't Stop Playing Cookie Clicker
4.10.2021
It was September, 2021 when it started. Kotaku editor-in-chief Patricia Hernandez asked me to handle a post, a story about a clicker game on Steam getting patched to allow cheating. What a fun, novel notion, certainly worthy of a story. No problems there. That was how my problems with Cookie...
CSS accent-color
4.10.2021
For better or worse, form fields have been somewhat difficult to style with CSS. Form control display is dependent upon device, operating system, and browser, so you can imagine the difficulty in making styling easy. We have slowly been given some controls over form control display, as evidenced...
XDEFI CEO wants to disrupt MetaMask’s domination of browser wallets
30.9.2021
Emile Dubié, CEO of XDEFI, is building a new browser wallet with Web 3 capabilities. XDEFI currently has nine blockchain integrations
New World Players Face Massive Queues, Wait Times On Overloaded Servers
28.9.2021
Amazon’s new massively multiplayer online role-playing game New World opened its doors earlier today, reaching a peak of over 700,000 players. That said, not even Jeff Bezos’ piggy bank has kept the MMO’s grand debut from being plagued with the usual launch day woes, including ridiculous wait times...
iOS Browser Choice
28.9.2021
Just last week I got one of those really?! 🤨 faces when this fact came up in conversation amongst smart and engaged fellow web developers: there is no browser choice on iOS. It’s all Safari. You can download apps that …
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Viral Steam Game Patched To Aid Cheating
9.9.2021
I’m still playing Cookie Clicker instead of writing about Cookie Clicker because I need a good screenshot. That’s what I’m telling myself. It’s a convincing argument—I’m going to use it if Patricia starts asking where this post is. What would really help would be some sort of auto-clicker cheat...