Web Development

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales launches WT:Social to counter “clickbait nonsense” of Facebook and Twitter

Last month, co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales launched WikiTribune Social (WT:Social), a collaboratively editable news-focused social network. This site aims…

4 years ago

Google Chrome ‘secret’ experiment crashes browsers of thousands of IT admins worldwide

On Thursday last week, thousands of IT admins were left aghast when their Google Chrome browsers went blank, the White…

4 years ago

Brave 1.0 releases with focus on user privacy, crypto currency-centric private ads and payment platform

Yesterday, Brave, the company co-founded by ex-Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich, launched version 1.0 of its browser for Windows, macOS, Linux,…

4 years ago

Expanding Web Assembly beyond the browser with Bytecode Alliance, Mozilla, Fastly, Intel and Red Hat partnership

Mozilla has partnered with Fastly, Intel and Red Hat to form the Bytecode Alliance to build a secure-by-default future for…

4 years ago

Google starts experimenting with Manifest V3 extension in Chrome 80 Canary build

In spite of the overwhelmingly negative feedback on the Manifest V3 extension system, Google is standing firm on Chrome’s ad-blocking…

4 years ago

Apple shares tentative goals for WebKit 2020

Apple has released a list of tentative goals for WebKit in 2020 catering to WebKit users as well as Web,…

4 years ago

“The Vue.js community is one of Vue’s biggest selling points” – Marina Mosti on Vue and JavaScript in 2019 [Interview]

Vue occupies an interesting position in the triumvirate of frontend JavaScript frameworks. Not hyped to the extent that React is,…

4 years ago

Snyk’s JavaScript frameworks security report 2019 shares the state of security for React, Angular, and other frontend projects

Last week, Snyk, an open-source security platform published the State of JavaScript frameworks security report 2019. This report mainly focuses…

4 years ago

Fedora 31 releases with performance improvements, dropping support for 32 bit and Docker package

Yesterday, the Fedora team announced the release of Fedora 31. This release brings in a few visual changes and performance…

4 years ago

React Conf 2019: Concurrent Mode preview out, CSS-in-JS, React docs in 40 languages, and more

React Conf 2019 wrapped up last week. It was kick-started with a keynote by Tom Occhino and Yuhi Zheng from…

4 years ago