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10 votes
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Google Chrome: Behind the Open Source Browser Project (2008)
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Opera introduces web browser designed for gamers
21 votes -
Top 10 Web Design Styles of 1993 (Vernacular Web 3) - Prof. Dr. Style
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Old mobile websites?
Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for some web 1.0-esque websites, but with the twist of being designed for some ancient smartphones. An example of what I mean would be i.reddit.com , reddit's...
Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for some web 1.0-esque websites, but with the twist of being designed for some ancient smartphones. An example of what I mean would be i.reddit.com , reddit's original (and still fully functional) mobile implementation, or Twitter's site when you access it without a modern version of Javascript (which reverts to a clone of itself from around ~2012). I understand this is a super niche category and there's hardly any of them left, but if you happen to know of any or stumble upon one, please let me know! Thank you! :)
24 votes -
Military grade encryption won’t save you, or your business
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Tim Berners-Lee proposes "Contract for the Web": A set of principles to guide a better development of the Internet
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What the web still is - The state of the web and its positive qualities
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Firefox’s fight for the future of the web: With Google’s Chrome dominating the market, not-for-profit rival Mozilla is staking a comeback on its dedication to privacy
49 votes -
I've gone to great lengths for this silence
22 votes -
Dogs don't understand basic concepts like moving
19 votes -
Why 3D logos fell out of favor overnight
8 votes -
Firefox to hide notification popups by default starting next year
22 votes -
Certbot usability case study: Making it easier to get HTTPS certificates
12 votes -
Designing accessible color systems
27 votes -
A site to randomly stumble on to new and unique webpages - stumblingon
27 votes -
‘Lore Olympus’: Webtoon and The Jim Henson Company will partner for YA animated series
4 votes -
CSS is weird because it's solving a weird problem: what does it mean to design for an infinite and unknown canvas?
12 votes -
Where to put buttons on forms
12 votes -
Boulet - Flash-Back
7 votes -
Tyranny of the Clock - Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem on GitLab.com
12 votes -
I'm not a robot
7 votes -
The world's oldest webcam is shutting down after a quarter of a century
21 votes -
[Chrome 82, 2020Q2] Deprecate FTP support
7 votes -
If you lose your iPhone, you can’t pay your Apple Card bill on the web
6 votes -
New CSS Features in Firefox 68
18 votes -
The Mutable Web
5 votes -
Google open-sources their robots.txt parser and releases an RFC for formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol specification
10 votes -
Zach Weinersmith, the cartoonist behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and co-author of SOONISH, does a Q&A
12 votes -
Twins for a Day
8 votes -
What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser? (2015)
8 votes -
You (probably) don't need ReCAPTCHA
26 votes -
Branding the Decentralized Web
6 votes -
Webcomics: An oral history
12 votes -
100s of tabs: what is there?
Those of you who keep hundreds of tabs open: I'm curious how and why you use them. I'd hoard tabs in the past, but in a sad incident a browser (Firefox) restart caused the loss of all my 10s of...
Those of you who keep hundreds of tabs open: I'm curious how and why you use them. I'd hoard tabs in the past, but in a sad incident a browser (Firefox) restart caused the loss of all my 10s of open tabs that was accumulated over weeks long research about a topic, I decided to never trust tabs again. Now I'm making use of my bookmars toolbar, Org mode and Instapaper for most of the stuff having many tabs open was the method before. So, for me, tabs were for keeping stuff handy during research, read-it-later lists, and temporary bookmarks. What are the use cases for you?
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Opera Reborn 3: No modern browser is perfect, but this may be as close as it gets
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I challenge you to use Epiphany for a week!
When Edge died, I got worried about loosing competition to the Blink engine and as such, I went exploring other alternatives to realize.. there's not a whole lot, there's blink, gecko and webkit....
When Edge died, I got worried about loosing competition to the Blink engine and as such, I went exploring other alternatives to realize.. there's not a whole lot, there's blink, gecko and webkit.
So with that, I decided to try epiphany - Gnome's web browser. It uses Webkit which is what Blink was forked from so it's not terribly different in theory but the years apart has made that more apparent. It's fairly elegant in my opinion and it lacks some features, sure.
Anyways, to get to what I wanted to do this week, well, I'd like to challenge you all to use it for a week, mostly for bug hunting purposes and possibly to throw ideas at the project. Worth mentioning, I'm not affiliated with the project, just a user.
So to make sure we're all on the same page, we'll use the development Epiphany flatpak, this way we can be sure that the problem is in the current codebase. So, to install it :
Let's install the gnome-nightly repos as per instructions here :
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-apps-nightly --from https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps-nightly.flatpakrepo
Then, let's install the development version by doing so :
flatpak install org.gnome.Epiphany.Devel
Then just launch it and have fun with it!
if you run into any bugs, look at the contribution guide here and report the bugs in the repo after checking that the bug is not already present of course!
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Tildistas, do you read or have you read any webcomics?
as an offshoot of this topic, i'm interested to see if any of you folks read/were previously big into webcomics. the last time we apparently had this question was about ten months ago and...
as an offshoot of this topic, i'm interested to see if any of you folks read/were previously big into webcomics. the last time we apparently had this question was about ten months ago and obviously the site's grown quite a bit since then, so i'm sure there will be plenty of new answers.
20 votes -
The monarch’s stupendous migration, dissected
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End the Tyranny of Arial: The big internet platforms use the same fonts and backgrounds. Let’s make it interesting again.
15 votes -
The rapid rise and slow fall of the Microsoft web browser
6 votes -
Long live the monarch
10 votes -
Edge-on-Chromium approaches; build leaks, extensions page already live
4 votes -
radicle - peer-to-peer source code repositories using IPFS (alpha)
8 votes -
Native File System API
6 votes -
Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities
6 votes -
Fighting uphill - the demoralizing state of accessibility on the web
8 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'
8 votes -
How many dots can you see? Optical illusion in 18 lines of pure JavaScript - easy tutorial
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Web developers - What is your stack?
As someone who is not mainly a web developer, I can barely grasp the immensity of options when it comes to writing a web application. So far everything I've written has been using PHP and the Slim...
As someone who is not mainly a web developer, I can barely grasp the immensity of options when it comes to writing a web application.
So far everything I've written has been using PHP and the Slim microframework. PHP because I don't use languages like Python/Ruby/JS that much so I didn't have any prior knowledge of those, and I've found myself to be fairly productive with it. Slim because I didn't want a full-blown framework with 200 files to configure.
I've tried Go because I've used it in the past but I don't see it to be very fit when it comes to websites, I think it's fine for small microservices but doing MVC was a chore, maybe there's a framework out there that solves this.
As for the frontend I've been trying to use as little JavaScript as possible, always vanilla. As of HTML and CSS I'm no designer so I kind of get by copying code and tweaking things here and there.
However I've started a slightly bigger project and I don't fancy myself writing everything from scratch (specially security) besides, ORMs can be useful. Symfony4 is what I've been using for a couple of days, but I've had trouble setting up debugging, and the community/docs don't seem that great since this version is fairly new; so I'm considering trying out something more popular like Django.
So this is why I created the post, I know this will differ greatly depending on the use-case. But I would like to do a quick survey and hear some of your recommendations, both on the backend and frontend. Besides I think it's a good topic for discussion.
Cheers!
20 votes