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Link September 20, 2018

Safari Ripper ☠️

Security researcher Sabri posted a bit of code that will "force restart any iOS device." It's interesting to see HTML & CSS have this kind of dangerous power. It's essentially a ton of <div>s scaled to be pretty huge and then set over a repeating JPG image with each <div> blurring the background via backdrop-filter. It must cause such extreme and unhandled memory usage that it wreaks havoc on the browser as well as the entire operating system.… Read article

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Article August 30, 2018

The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity

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Rachel Nabors

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Early in my career when I worked at agencies and later at Microsoft on Edge, I heard the same lament over and over: "Argh, why doesn’t Edge just run on Blink? Then I would have access to ALL THE APIs I want to use and would only have to test in one browser!"

Let me be clear: an Internet that runs only on Chrome’s engine, Blink, and its offspring, is not the paradise we like to imagine it to be.… Read article

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Article February 7, 2018

Fallbacks for Videos-as-Images

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Chris Coyier

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Safari 11.1 shipped a strange-but-very-useful feature: the ability to use a video source in the <img /> tag. The idea is it does the same job as a GIF (silent, autoplaying, repeating), but with big performance gains. How big? "20x faster and decode 7x faster than the GIF equivalent," says Colin Bendell.… Read article

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Link January 25, 2018

New Features Coming Soon in Safari

From twitter.com

Here’s a great thread by Ricky Mondello that outlines all of the nifty new features in the latest Safari across macOS and iOS. Some of my favorites include the ability to replace gifs with mp4s, the Payment Request API and support for the Web App Manifest.… Read article

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