It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I made a Chrome extension this weekend because I found I was doing the same task over and over and wanted to automate it. Plus, I’m a nerd living through a pandemic, so I spend my pent-up energy building things. I’ve made a few Chrome Extensions over the years, hope this post helps you get going, too. Let’s get started!… Read article “How to Build a Chrome Extension”
In this week’s roundup, variable fonts get oblique, a new browser extension for linting, and the very first version of CSS Modules.… Read article “Weekly Platform News: CSS font-style: oblique, webhint browser extension, CSS Modules V1”
You can make a garden variety anchor link (<a></a>) open up a new email. Let’s take a little journey into this feature. It’s pretty easy to use, but as with anything web, there are lots of things to consider.… Read article “All About mailto: Links”
As a web UI developer and designer, there are countless things to learn and only so many hours in the day. There are topics I’ve purposefully avoided, like mobile and offline application development because, at some point, you have to draw a line somewhere in the millions of shiny new topics and get some work done. One of the areas I’ve avoided in the past is browser extension development. I didn’t understand how they worked, what the development environment was, … Read article “Control the Internet With Chrome Extensions!”
It’s an extension:
Each Container stores cookies separately, so you can log into the same site with different accounts and online trackers can’t easily connect the browsing.
A great idea for a feature if you ask me. For example, I have two Buffer accounts and my solution is to use different browsers entirely to stay logged into both of them. I know plenty of folks that prefer the browser version of apps like Notion, Front, and Twitter… Read article “Firefox Multi-Account Containers”
Varun Vachhar:
A Chrome extension for debugging SVG paths by converting them to outlines and displaying anchors, control points, handles and arc ellipses.
An amazing contribution to this open source project would be to make all those points draggable, and then be able to spit out the newly adjusted code.
Also, weren’t browser extensions on their way to being interoperable? Looks like the community group has significant work done. … Read article “xvg”