In this week’s news: Firefox gets strict, Opera goes to the dark side, and Chrome plans to let web apps run in the background.
Let’s get into the news.… Read article “Weekly Platform News: Strict Tracking Protection, Dark Web Pages, Periodic Background Sync”
In this week’s roundup: DuckDuckGo gets smarter encryption, a fight over the sale of dot org domains, and a new browser engine is in the works.
Let’s get into the news!… Read article “Weekly Platform News: Upgrading Navigations to HTTPS, Sale of .org Domains, New Browser Engine”
In this week’s roundup: Firefox’s new contrast checker, a simpler way to lasso substrings in a string, and a new experimental API that will let apps fiddle with a user’s local files.… Read article “Weekly Platform News: Contrast Ratio Range, replaceAll Method, Native File System API”
In this week’s roundup: Internet Explorer finds its way into Edge, Google Search Console touts a new speed report, and Firefox gives Facebook’s notification the silent treatment.
Let’s get into the news!… Read article “Weekly Platform News: Internet Explorer Mode, Speed Report in Search Console, Restricting Notification Prompts”
In this week’s roundup: Firefox gains locksmith-like powers, Samsung’s Galaxy Store starts supporting Progressive Web Apps, CSS Subgrid is shipping in Firefox 70, and a new study confirms that users prefer to tap into content rather than scroll through it.
Let’s get into the news.… Read article “Weekly Platform News: Web Apps in Galaxy Store, Tappable Stories, CSS Subgrid”
In this week’s roundup: “Add to home screen” has different meanings in Android, Chrome and Edge add some pop to focus rectangles on form inputs, and how third-party sites may be coming to a modal near you.… Read article “Weekly Platform News: WebAPK Limited to Chrome, Discernible Focus Rectangles, Modal Window API”
In this week’s roundup: multi-column layouts gain wide support, the ADA means more A11y for retailers, and Google is doing something about all the empty image alt attributes in the wild.… Read article “Weekly Platform News: CSS column-span Property, ADA applies to Websites, Auto-generated Image Descriptions”
In this week’s roundup, Lighthouse sheds light on third-party scripts, insecure resources will get blocked on secure sites, and many country connection speeds are still trying to catch up to others… literally.
Lighthouse, Chrome’s built-in auditing tool, now shows a warning when the impact of third-party code on page load performance is too high. The pre-existing “Third-party usage” diagnostic audit will now fail if the total main-thread blocking time caused by … Read article “Weekly Platform News: Impact of Third-Party Code, Passive Mixed Content, Countries with the Slowest Connections”
In this week’s roundup, Safari takes on cross-site tracking, the delay between load and user interaction is greater on mobile, and a new survey says headings are a popular way for screen readers to navigate a webpage.
Let’s get into the news.… Read article “Weekly Platform News: Tracking via Web Storage, First Input Delay, Navigating by Headings”
In this week’s roundup: fighting shifty layouts, some videos might be a bit stalled, and a new way to take screenshots in Firefox.… Read article “Weekly Platform News: Layout Shifts, Stalled High-Bitrate Videos, Screenshots in Firefox”