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Weekly Platform News: Internet Explorer Mode, Speed Report in Search Console, Restricting Notification Prompts
14.11.2019
In this week's roundup: Internet Explorer finds its way into Edge, Google Search Console touts a new speed report, and Firefox gives Facebook's notification the silent treatment.
Let's get into the news!
Edge browser with new Internet Explorer mode launches in January
Microsoft expects to release...
Brave Web Browser Finally Enabled BAT Rewards for Its iOS Users
13.11.2019
Now, iPhone users can earn Basic Attention Token (BAT) tokens for simply watching privacy-preserving advertisements with the blockchain-based Brave Browser. BAT is an Ethereum based open-source, decentralized ad marketing platform. Formerly Brave Payments used Bitcoin to allow users to reward...
Introducing CryptoTab—the World’s First Mining Browser
12.11.2019
CryptoTab is a unique crypto-blockchain browser. The premier feature of the browser, which sets it apart from the competition, is that it lets users mine Bitcoin. CryptoTab has about 9 million users and will be initially catering to users from the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. The CryptoTab...
scrapestack: An API for Scraping Sites
12.11.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Not every site has an API to access data from it. Most don't, in fact. If you need to pull that data, one approach is to "scrape" it. That is, load the page in web browser (that you automate), find what you are looking for in the DOM, and take it.
You can do this...
Some Things You Oughta Know When Working with Viewport Units
6.11.2019
David Chanin has a quickie article summarizing a problem with setting an element's height to 100vh in mobile browsers and then also positioning something on the bottom of that.
Summarized in this graphic:
The trouble is that Chrome isn't taking the address bar (browser chrome) into account when...
JavaScript waitForTime
6.11.2019
I write a lot of tests for new features within Firefox DevTools. We have hundreds of “mochitests” which open the browser and perform synthetic actions like clicking, typing, and other user actions. I’ve previously written about waitForever which essentially halts following actions...
Comparing the Different Types of Native JavaScript Popups
31.10.2019
JavaScript has a variety of built-in popup APIs that display special UI for user interaction. Famously:
alert("Hello, World!");
The UI for this varies from browser to browser, but generally you’ll see a little window pop up front and center in a very show-stopping way that contains the message...
Using the Platform
29.10.2019
Tim Kadlec:
So much care and planning has gone into creating the web platform, to ensure that even as new features are added, they’re added in a way that doesn’t break the web for anyone using an older device or browser. Can you say the same for any framework out there? I don’t mean that to...
A Business Case for Dropping Internet Explorer
28.10.2019
The distance between Internet Explorer (IE) 11 and every other major browser is an increasingly gaping chasm. Adding support for a technologically obsolete browser adds an inordinate amount of time and frustration to development. Testing becomes onerous. Bug-fixing looms large. Developers have...
Beyond a “Legacy” Browser: Opera Now Lets You Transact in Bitcoin and TRON
23.10.2019
Renowned web browser, Opera, has recently announced that the platform now supports transactions in Bitcoin (BTC) and TRON (TRX) cryptocurrencies within the browser. After being the very first web browser to integrate Ethereum (ETH) along with a crypto wallet in 2018, Opera is now sternly poised...
Smartphone Developers Embrace Crypto as Opera Integrates BTC and TRX
22.10.2019
The love-in between smartphone developers and cryptocurrency users is smoldering. What started out as a flirtation by HTC and Samsung has blossomed into a full-blown affair, incorporating hardware and software support from a string of companies. Today, Opera ramped up its cryptocurrency support...
Opera Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments to Android Update
22.10.2019
The enhanced crypto functionality will let Opera for android users make bitcoin payments from its built-in digital wallet and interact with dapps on TRON
Opera Becomes First Major Browser to Enable Direct Bitcoin Payments
22.10.2019
Web browser Opera now allows to send and receive BTC directly from the browser
Why Parcel Has Become My Go-To Bundler for Development
21.10.2019
Today we’re gonna talk about application bundlers — tools that simplify our lives as developers. At their core, bundlers pick your code from multiple files and put everything all together in one or more files in a logical order that are compiled and ready for use in a browser. Moreover, through...
How to Use JPEG 2000 (JP2) for a Faster Images on iPhone (Sponsored)
21.10.2019
Images Slow Down Websites Images slow down the page-loading performance of many websites. Audit tools like Google’s Lighthouse can quickly tell you how many seconds you can save by optimizing your images. When you are delivering to desktops or android devices running Chrome browser, a quick...
Vtipálci vypustili do světa falešný Tor Browser. Ten teď okrádá Rusy o bitcoiny
18.10.2019
Tor Browser má surfaře ochránit před případnými zvídavými zraky, veškerou komunikaci prohlížeče totiž zašifruje a anonymizuje skrze několik prostředníků – podobně jako anonymizační VPN.
Uvnitř alternativní sítě Tor zároveň přežívají podobně anonymizované weby a na nich třeba darknetové e-shopy.
Fake Tor Browser Steals Bitcoin From Darknet Users, Warns ESET
18.10.2019
Trojanized Tor Browser steals Bitcoin from darknet shoppers, ESET warns
Fake Tor Browser Has Been Spying, Stealing Bitcoin ‘For Years’
18.10.2019
Hackers have been distributing a compromised version of the official Tor Browser that's packed with malware designed to steal bitcoin
Crypto-Friendly Browser Brave Hits 8 Million Monthly Active Users
17.10.2019
Ethereum-enabled web browser Brave announced that it reached 8 million monthly active users
The `hidden` Attribute is Visibly Weak
16.10.2019
There is an HTML attribute that does exactly what you think it should do:
<div>I'm visible</div>
<div hidden>I'm hidden</div>
It even has great browser support. Is it useful? Uhm. Maybe. Not really.
Adam Laki likes the semantics of it:
If we use the hidden...