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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 …
The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity
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 …
Fallbacks for Videos-as-Images
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 …
New Features Coming Soon in Safari
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 …
