Adactio: Links
Alex takes issue with my post giving kudos to Apple for concentrating on bugfixes in the latest version of Safari, and he brings receipts. He makes a very compelling case, backed up with data. But when it comes to Chrome’s shipping of the half-baked prompt API, I’m not sure he gets just how badly...
Adrian Roselli
Chrome 150 has landed support for focusgroup, a feature proposed by Open-UI and not yet in WHATWG HTML as anything more than a feature request. Open-UI has outsized representation from Google and Microsoft folks, so it’s no surprise Chrome would implement it first. “FOCUS!” by Metro Centric,...
Adactio: Journal
I give Apple a hard time. That’s mostly due to how they treat the web on their own mobile devices. Though iOS ostensibly supports the ability for websites to be added to the homescreen, they make it so difficult for users to do, the functionality is practically worthless. It’s dispiriting to see...
Aaron T. Grogg
Starting off with a little shameless self-promotion: I recently shared NoLoJS, an open-source design library of components aiming to reduce reliance on JS, in favor of just HTML and CSS, as much as possible. The idea is to create a collection of web patterns that have historically relied heavily...
Accidentally Quadratic
Server-sent events are a standard for web servers to stream a sequence of events to a browser over a single HTTP connection. You can view them as a simpler, unidirectional, alternative to websockets (that doesn’t require support from any middleboxes), or as an optimization over...
Bits, Bobs & Breakpoints — Aaron Holmes
Printing function body in Chrome’s console# 1 July 2015 Chrome Chrome used to, by default, print a function body in the console if you entered a function name into it, or if you called console.log() with a function name. What happens now is that Chrome will print a link to the function which,...
John Glotzer
The web interface for 3ware's RAID controller, 3dm2 uses a self signed certificate when you connect via https://localhost:888. Firefox and Chrome will not accept such a certificate (even if you configure a "security exception), so you cannot administer your RAID controller via the web interface....