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The CoinDesk 50: Brave Browser Delivered and BAT’s a DeFi Darling
8.5.2020
Taking on powerful forces in the surveillance economy was never going to be easy. But Brendan Eich and Brave are making a good fist of it
Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS
7.5.2020
The accessibility trick is using <input type="range"> and wrestling it into shape with CSS rather than giving up and re-building it with divs or whatever and later forget about accessibility.
The most clever example uses an angled linear-gradient background making the input look like...
Few Brave Browser Users Take Advantage of Crypto Features, Says CEO
5.5.2020
While Brave boasts over 13 million monthly users, few of them appear to be utilizing the cryptocurrency aspect of the platform
How to Display Mode-Specific Images
4.5.2020
Now that we have most of the basics of HTML and CSS in the browser, we’ve begun implementing new features that I would consider “quality of life” improvements, many of which have been inspired by mobile. One great example is the CSS prefers-color-scheme media query, which allows...
Brave Browser integrates Binance Widget to provide Seamless Crypto Trading
1.5.2020
Leading crypto exchange Binance announced on Thursday that Binance Widget is now available for all Brave desktop browser users. In the official tweet, it states that Brave users will now be able to trade and manage their crypto without leaving the browser. #Binance Widget Now Available to...
Brave Browser Brings Binance Integration to All Desktop Users
1.5.2020
The Binance widget was previously only available for the Brave Nightly and Beta versions
Brave Browser Reports That EU Governments Are Failing at Privacy Protection
30.4.2020
Underfinanced EU regulators can’t afford to challenge tech giants on privacy violations according to Brave browser
Static or Not?
27.4.2020
A quick opinion piece by Kev Quirk: Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator. Kev uses WordPress:
Want to blog on my iPad? I can. Want to do it on my phone? No problem. On a machine I don’t normally use? Not an issue, as long as it has a browser.
First, it’s worth understanding...
“The title ‘Front-End Developer’ is obsolete.”
24.4.2020
That title is from the opening tweet of a thread from Benjamin De Cock. I wouldn’t go that far, myself. What I like about the term is that ‘Front-End’ literally means the browser, and while the job has been changing quite a lot — and is perhaps fracturing before our eyes — the fact that...
SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them
24.4.2020
Favicons are the little icons you see in your browser tab. They help you understand which site is which when you’re scanning through your browser’s bookmarks and open tabs. They’re a neat part of internet history that are capable of performing some cool tricks.
One very new trick is the ability...
Innovating on Web Monetization: Coil and Firefox Reality
23.4.2020
I still think Coil is cool. I have it installed on CSS-Tricks as a publisher and money trickles in. I have a paid account and I trickle out money to other sites that use it. I wrote about all that last year.
This’ll explode to something huge if we actually get the Web Monetization API stuff....
Can JavaScript Detect the Browser’s Zoom Level?
21.4.2020
No, not really.
My first guess was that this was intentionally not exposed in browsers because browsers intentionally don’t want us fighting it — or making well-intentioned but bad-outcome decisions based on that info. But I don’t see any evidence of that.
StackOverflow answers paint...
How to Add Native Keyword Aliases to Babel
16.4.2020
Those of you who follow this blog know that not every blog post is an endorsement of a technique but simply a tutorial how to accomplish something. Sometimes the technique described is probably not something you should do. This is one of those blog posts. The Babel parser is an essential tool...
Charles Hoskison Reveals His 9 Favorite Crypto Projects
15.4.2020
Charles Hoskinson discusses his 9 favorite projects and names the most revolutionary cryptocurrency
Google Pulls 49 Cryptocurrency Wallet Browser Extensions Found Stealing Private Keys
15.4.2020
Google has removed 49 cryptocurrency wallet browser extensions after a security researcher discovered they were stealing private keys. These Chrome extensions targeted users of crypto wallets, such as Ledger, Trezor, Jaxx, Electrum, Myetherwallet, Metamask, Exodus, and Keepkey. Also read: Bitcoin...
JavaScript Picture-in-Picture API
14.4.2020
As a huge fan of media on the web, I’m always excited about enhancements to how we can control our media. Maybe I get excited about simple things like the <video> tag and its associated elements and attributes because media on the web started with custom codecs, browser extensions,...
Japanese Crypto Exchange bitFlyer Starts Trading Brave Tokens
14.4.2020
As the only virtual currency exchange certified in the US, Europe, and Japan, bitFlyer started offering trading for BAT on April 9
Tips for Writing Animation Code Efficiently
10.4.2020
I’ve been coding web animations and helping others do the same for years now. However, I have yet to see a concise list of tips focused on how to efficiently build animations, so here you go!
I will be using the GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP). It provides a simple, readable API and solves...
Brave Tokens Available for Trading on Gemini Starting April 24
7.4.2020
Basic Attention Tokens thorough privacy-oriented web browser Brave will be available for deposits on Gemini starting April 24
Brave Browser Gains 1M New Users in a Single Month
2.4.2020
Privacy-focused internet browser Brave garners one million additional users in March