It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
It wasn’t that long ago that Umar Hansa published a look at the most interesting new features in Chrome DevTools released in 2020. In fact, it was just earlier this month!
But in that short amount of time, Chrome has a few new tricks up its sleeve. One of the features Umar covered was the ability to emulate certain browsing conditions including, among many, vision deficiencies like blurred vision.… Read article “What’s New In DevTools (Chrome 86)”
I’m excited to share some of the newer features in Chrome DevTools with you. There’s a brief introduction below, and then we’ll cover many of the new DevTools features. We’ll also look at what’s happening in some other browsers. I keep up with this stuff, as I create Dev Tips, the largest collection of DevTools tips you’ll find online! … Read article “A Look at What’s New in Chrome DevTools in 2020”
This is exactly what I love to hear from any browser vendor:
… Read article “Improving Chromium’s browser compatibility in 2020”When it comes to browser compatibility, there are still too many missing features and edge-case bugs. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Things can and will get better, if browser vendors can understand what is causing the most pain, and take action to address the causes. In Chrome we’re doing our best to listen, and we’re doing our best to address what we’re hearing. We hope
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”
Interesting research from Aaron Peters on <img loading="lazy" ... >:
… Read article “Native Image Lazy Loading in Chrome Is Way Too Eager”On my 13 inch macbook, with Dock positioned on the left, the viewport height in Chrome is 786 pixels so images with
loading="lazy"that are more than 4x the viewport down the page are eagerly fetched by Chrome on page load.In my opinion, that is waaaaay too eager. Why not use a lower threshold value like 1000 pixels? Or even better: base the threshold value on the actual
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”
Asked an entire room full of webdevs yesterday if any of them knew that FF/Chrome/Opera/Brave/etc. for iOS weren't allowed to compete on engine quality.
Zero hands up.
— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) September 25, 2019
It’s worth making this clear then. On iOS, the only browser engine is WebKit. There are other browsers, but they can’t bring their own engine (Blink/Gecko). So, if you’re using Chrome or Firefox on iOS, it’s really the same engine Safari is using, only slightly less … Read article “Zero hands up.”
We lost Opera when they went Chrome in 2013. Same deal with Edge when it also went Chrome earlier this year. Mike Taylor called these changes a “Decreasingly Diverse Browser Engine World” in a talk I’d like to see.
So all we’ve got left is Chrome-stuff, Firefox-stuff, and Safari-stuff. Chrome and Safari share the same lineage but have diverged enough, evolve separately enough, and are walled away from each other enough that it makes sense to think of them as … Read article “Browser Engine Diversity”
