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Firefox blocks third-party tracking cookies and cryptominers
4.9.2019
This is super interesting stuff from Mozilla: the most recent update of Firefox will now block cryptominers and third-party tracking scripts by default. In the press release they write:
For today’s release, Enhanced Tracking Protection will automatically be turned on by default for all users...
Brave Browser Creates Buzz by Making Wikipedia a Verified Publisher
28.8.2019
Wikipedia, the ultimate source of information on the online arena, has joined hands with Brave browser to bring about a revolution in the advertising world. The most widely used and trusted website in the world, Wikipedia, has partnered with Brave browser to shine in its esteemed list of verified...
Brave Browser Announces Development of Crypto Wallet for ETH and BAT
27.8.2019
Brave Browser is working on a crypto wallet that it intends to integrate into Brave Rewards
Brave Expands Crypto Tipping to Reddit and Vimeo After Twitter
25.8.2019
Brave’s crypto tipping option on Reddit and Vimeo comes weeks after it was first applied on Twitter
Using rel=”preconnect” to establish network connections early and increase performance
20.8.2019
Milica Mihajlija:
Adding rel=preconnect to a <link> informs the browser that your page intends to establish a connection to another domain, and that you'd like the process to start as soon as possible. Resources will load more quickly because the setup process has already been completed...
Can you view print stylesheets applied directly in the browser?
19.8.2019
Yep.
Let's take a look at how to do it in different browsers. Although note the date of this blog post. This stuff tends to change over time, so if anything here is wrong, let us know and we can update it.
In Firefox...
It's a little button in DevTools. So easy!
Open DevTools...
Brave Browser Adds Support for New Cryptocurrency Wallets
17.8.2019
Brave browser is all set to add more features with regards to wallets. As per their official subreddit, Brave Browser has added support for native digital currency wallets to Brave Nightly, Brave Browser’s test + development variant. With this latest update, other crypto wallets, especially...
Brave Browser Adds Access to New Crypto Wallets
16.8.2019
Prior to the addition, Brave users could only place BATs in Uphold, a wallet Brave partnered with for BAT
All the New ES2019 Tips and Tricks
13.8.2019
The ECMAScript standard has been updated yet again with the addition of new features in ES2019. Now officially available in node, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari you can also use Babel to compile these features to a different version of JavaScript if you need to support an older browser.
Let’s look...
Brave Browser Sees 1,200% Increase of Registered Publishers Over Year
12.8.2019
The number of publishers using the blockchain-based decentralized browser Brave has increased by 1,200% over the past year
Tech Behemoth IBM Files for a Blockchain-Enabled Web Browser Patent
11.8.2019
American technology behemoth IBM has filed for a blockchain-enabled web browser patent
IBM Recently Registers a Patent for Blockchain-Based Web Browser for the Peer-to-Peer Framework
11.8.2019
The latest patent application from IBM represents about a blockchain-based internet browser. Registered on sixth August by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, IBM’s patent is for an internet browser supported by a peer-to-peer framework. IBM is as of now spearheading...
IBM Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Web Browser
10.8.2019
The patent describes a peer-to-peer network for managing and storing browsing session data
Weekly Platform News: CSS font-style: oblique, webhin browser extension, CSS Modules V1
9.8.2019
In this week's roundup, variable fonts get oblique, a new browser extension for linting, and the very first version of CSS Modules.
Use font-style: oblique on variable fonts
Some popular variable fonts have a 'wght' (weight) axis for displaying text at different font weights and a 'slnt' (slant)...
Quick Gulp Cache Busting
7.8.2019
You should for sure be setting far-out cache headers on your assets like CSS and JavaScript (and images and fonts and whatever else). That tells the browser "hang on to this file basically forever." That way, when navigating from page to page on a site — or revisiting it, or refreshing...
Basic Attention Token Price Analysis: Trends are Bearish, Brave Browser Enabled Twitter Tipping Using BAT
7.8.2019
Recently, Brave browser announced that the new version of its desktop software would support tipping on Twitter using Basic Attention Token. Brave users can now send Basic Attention Token for an amount of their choosing directly to the author of the tweet by clicking the “tip” button on each tweet....
Weekly Platform News: Preventing Image Loads with the Picture Element, the Web We Want, Svg Styles Are Not Scoped
1.8.2019
In this week's week roundup of browser news, a trick for loading images conditionally using the picture element, your chance to tell bowser vendors about the web you want, and the styles applied to inline SVG elements are, well, not scoped only to that SVG.
Let's turn to...
Brave Browser: Prohlížeč, díky kterému ušetříte 50 % mobilních dat a ochráníte své soukromí
31.7.2019
Internetová reklama je všudypřítomná. Její rozmach jde tak daleko, že tvoří většinu dat na některých stránkách. Podle článku New York Times tvoří u prvních 50 amerických zpravodajských serverů stažená data z více než poloviny reklama. Brouzdání zpravodajskými weby s ohledem na skutečnost, že...
Don’t comma-separate :focus-within if you need deep browser support
24.7.2019
I really like :focus-within. It's a super useful selector that allows you to essentially select a parent element when any of its children are in focus.
Say you wanted to reveal some extra stuff when a <div> is hovered...
div:hover {
.extra-stuff {
/* reveal it */
}
}
That's...
Multi-Line Truncation with Pure CSS
17.7.2019
Truncating a single line of text if is fairly straightforward. Truncating multiple lines is a bit harder. Using just CSS (no JavaScript or server-side dancing) is nice for the simplicity. It's gotten a little easier lately since Firefox (since version 68) has started supporting the ultra-bizarre...