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The New Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Build 2020
Melanie Richards recently presented new and upcoming features for users and web developers that are being incorporated into the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. Since moving to Chromium, Edge has been slowing gaining user share, passing Firefox to become the second browser on desktop/laptop devices (according to netmarketshare).
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Crowdfunding Web APIs - Igalia Lets Developers Fund APIs They Care About
Igalia, an open-source consultancy that contributed a large part of the CSS Grid implementation in WebKit and Chromium, is experimenting with the crowd-funding of new web APIs. Starting with six HTML/CSS features, the experiment gives developers a larger say on what web APIs get implemented and when.
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Apple Rejects NFC, Bluetooth and 14 More Web APIs, Citing Privacy Reasons
In the frame of its tracking prevention policy, Apple recently communicated its current refusal to implement 16 web APIs, citing privacy concerns. Apple emphasized that the decision could be reconsidered if the proposals evolve to reduce the fingerprinting attack surface.
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Chrome 85 DevTools Support CSS-in-JS and Lighthouse 6
The forthcoming Chrome 85 release in August includes style editing for CSS-in-JS frameworks, Lighthouse 6, support for new ES2020 features, and several other helpful additions for web developers.
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JavaScript Reaches the Final Frontier: Space
The recent SpaceX Dragon launch brings JavaScript to space. Leveraging Chromium and JavaScript, significant portions of the user interface rely on web technologies.
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Playwright 1.0 Release Automates Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit-Based Browsers
The Playwright 1.0 release and now supports automation with all evergreen browsers based on the Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browser engines.
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Chrome 83 DevTools Emulates Vision Deficiencies and Locales
The forthcoming Chrome 83 release includes significant updates to DevTools, including emulation of vision deficiencies and user locales, cross-origin opener policy (COOP) debugging, and cross-origin embedder policy (COEP) debugging, and network request filtering for cookie paths.
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Browser-Automation Library Puppeteer Now Supports Firefox
Mathias Bynens, Google developer working on @ChromeDevTools & @v8js, released Puppeteer 3.0. Puppeteer now supports Firefox in addition to the Chrome browser. The new version also upgraded support to the latest Chrome 81, and removed support for Node 8.
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Safari 13.1 Released
Safari 13.1 was recently released for macOS Catalina, iPadOS, iOS, and watchOS. Safari 13.1 strives to improve on the WebKit engine, privacy, performance, and web developer experience.
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Safari Blocks Third-Party Cookies by Default
Safari joins privacy-focused web browsers like Tor and Brave in blocking third-party cookies by default in a move aimed at taking a step forward in web privacy. Google will not support third-party cookie blocking by default for all Chrome users until 2022. Third-party cookie blocking by default may disable login fingerprinting, and some cross-site request forgery attacks.
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Firefox 75 Revamps Address Bar, Keeps Release Schedules despite Coronavirus
Mozilla recently released Firefox 75, with a revamped address bar striving to improve the user’s search experience. Additionally, Firefox developers may now lazy-load images with configuring the <img> element’s loading attribute. Developers may also now evaluate side-effect-free expressions as they type in the console. Mozilla maintains Firefox's release schedule despite the coronavirus impact.
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Chrome Phasing out Support for User Agent
Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.
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Chrome 81 Release Features New AR and NFC Features, and Redesigned HTML Form Controls
Google recently released Chrome 81 on desktop and mobile phones. This latest release provides new augmented reality (AR) features and new NFC features, and also shipped with redesigned HTML form controls. The redesign aims at improving the look and feel of form controls, and providing better accessibility and touch support.
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Firefox 72 Released with Better Privacy, User Experience and a Four-Week Release Cycle
The Firefox browser shipped new versions in 2020 which strive to improve privacy, user experience, and JavaScript and WebAPI support. Additionally, Mozilla will now release new Firefox versions on a monthly cycle.
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Porting a Go-Based Face Detection Library to Wasm: Q&A with Endre Simo
Endre Simo, senior software developer and open-source contributor to a few popular image-processing projects, ported the Pigo face-detection library from Go to browsers with WebAssembly. The port illustrates the performance potential of WebAssembly today to run heavy-weight desktop applications in a browser context.