Tag: Browsers
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Using Watir to automate web browsers with Ruby
Posted on November 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Browser automation describes the process of programmatically performing certain actions in the browser (or handing these actions over to robots) that might otherwise be quite tedious or repetitive to be performed manually by a human. By Jude Ero.
Tags tdd performance app-development web-development browsers
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What is a Web3 browser and how does it work?
Posted on October 20, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Web3 browsers like Brave allow users to access DApps, integrate cryptocurrencies and surf over the decentralized web with greater privacy and security. The phrase "Web3" is used to characterize multiple evolutions of web interaction and usage along various paths, including creating a geospatial web, utilizing artificial intelligence tools and making content available through numerous non-browser apps or Web3 browsers. By Onkar Singh.
Tags browsers miscellaneous crypto infosec
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DuckDuckGo vs. Google: An in-depth search engine comparison
Posted on May 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Which search engine is better at finding the information you want, fast? We compare the features of DuckDuckGo and Google. By Sam Hollingsworth.
Tags search how-to browsers big-data cio analytics
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Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
Posted on May 7, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
My initial focus was to introduce Web Components as the new fundamental building block of all new DevTools features and UI. With the recently launched Recorder panel along with others, there are now large parts of DevTools that are almost exclusively web components. By Jack Franklin.
Tags web-development react app-development javascript browsers
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How to create your own Google Chrome extension
Posted on February 15, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
If you are a Google Chrome user, you've probably used some extensions in the browser. Have you ever wondered how to build one yourself? In this article, I will show you how you can create a Chrome extension from scratch. By Sampurna Chapagain.
Tags browsers javascript web-development app-development
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The file system access API with Origin Private File System
Posted on February 14, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It is very common for an application to interact with local files. For exampe, a general workflow is opening a file, making some changes, and saving the file. By Sihui Liu.
Tags browsers javascript web-development cio
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Privacy fines: GDPR sanctions in 2021 exceeded $1 billion
Posted on January 20, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Privacy regulators in Europe last year imposed known fines totaling more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, bolstered in part by two record-breaking sanctions, according to the law firm DLA Piper. But sanctions approach varies widely across 31 countries complying with privacy law. By Mathew J. Schwartz.
Tags infosec cio management web-development browsers miscellaneous analytics
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Deep-dive: VideoNG
Posted on September 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This post is a part of a series on the Chromium rendering engine. The team is responsible for the web facing APIs for video playback like MSE and WebCodecs, and the platform specific internals involved in demuxing, decoding, and rendering audio and video. By Dale Curtis.
Tags browsers ux miscellaneous frameworks
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Safari isn't protecting the web, it's killing it
Posted on July 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
I have seen some interesting rebuttals, most commonly: Safari is actually protecting the web, by resisting adding unnecessary and experimental features that create security/privacy/bloat problems. That is worth further discussion, because it's widespread, and wrong. By Tim Perry.
Tags browsers cloud javascript infosec
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Browser attack allows tracking users online with JavaScript disabled
Posted on March 11, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Researchers have discovered a new side-channel that they say can be reliably exploited to leak information from web browsers that could then be leveraged to track users even when JavaScript is completely disabled. By Ravie Lakshmanan.
Tags infosec javascript browsers web-development
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Going from JavaScript to WebAssembly in three steps
Posted on November 3, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
It is vital that the performance on the client's browser is as good as possible. The reason for this is very simple: when you are being told a story, or watching a movie, even a single frameskip immediately takes you out of your experience. By Marcel Duin.
Tags javascript web-development browsers performance
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The guide to accessible web components
Posted on September 22, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Web Components are a newly supported standard. They're a great match for Design Systems because they're futureproof and work with any framework. Building proper UI Web Components can be quite a task though, especially if you want them to be accessible. By Erik Kroes.
Tags ux web-development app-development browsers javascript