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Major Browser Vendors Announce Interop 2024 to Solve Incompatibility Issues
Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, alongside consultancies Bocoup and Igalia, recently announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability. Interop 2024 includes 17 focus areas addressing layout, styling, user interaction concerns, and more.
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The Web's Next Transition: Kent C. Dodds at QCon London
Software engineer educator Kent C. Dodds opened the Modern Frontend Development and Architecture track at QCon London with his keynote on The Web’s Next Transition, focused on Modern Infrastructure and Techniques.
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Minze, a Minimalistic JS Library for Creating Web Components
Minze is a modern JavaScript library that abstracts many of the difficulties of writing Web Components with a minimal overhead (2kb minified and compressed) and good developer ergonomics.
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Meta Open-Sources Browser Extension to Establish Web Code Authenticity
Originally created to help WhatsApp users verify the authenticity of the WhatsApp code being served to their browsers, Code Verify is a new open-source extension for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox enabling to provide the same level of security for other Web services, says Meta.
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Ionic Portals Aims to Simplify the Integration of Web Apps into iOS and Android Native Code
Ionic describes its new web view component, Ionic Portals, as a "supercharged" version of the native web view controls available on iOS and Android. It aims to make it easier for developers to integrate web apps with native code in an efficient way.
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WICG Publishes New HTML Sanitizer API Proposal against mXSS Attacks
The Web Platform Incubator Community Group recently published the Draft Community Group Report for the HTML Sanitizer API. The HTML Sanitizer API lets developers take untrusted strings of HTML and sanitize those strings for safe insertion into a document’s DOM. The most common use case of HTML string sanitization is to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
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Cloudflare Announces the General Availability of Cloudflare Pages
Recently, Cloudflare announced the general availability (GA) of Cloudflare Pages: a fast, secure, and free way for frontend developers to build, host, and collaborate on Jamstack sites.
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Charts.CSS, a Pure CSS Charting Library
Charts.css is a new data visualization library that relies solely on CSS and HTML. By avoiding the use of JavaScript/Canvas, it avoids many of the accessibility challenges in existing solutions while keeping the bundle size under 10KB when minified and gzipped.
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React Native 0.64 Brings the Hermes JavaScript Engine to iOS
The latest version of React Native adds support for the Hermes JavaScript engine on iOS and moves to React 17.
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Web Almanac Mega Study Reveals That Popular Front-End Frameworks Are Still a Small Part of the Web
The HTTP Archive finalized the Web Almanac 2020, an annual report on the state of the web. The report gathers its conclusions in 22 chapters organized in four sections (e.g, page content, user experience, content publishing and distribution): jQuery is still 80% of the web; CSS Houdini is seldom used; the median website ships 400 KB of JavaScript in 2020, 14% more than in 2019; and many more.
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Farewell to Flash
Flash reached end of life on 31st December, 2020. InfoQ looks back at the contribution that Flash made to the early web, and what will be missed after its demise.
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Cloudflare Introduces a Way to Build and Host Jamstack Sites with Cloudflare Pages
In a recent blog post, Cloudflare announced a fast, secure, and free way to build and host JAMstack sites with Cloudflare Pages. It seamlessly integrates with a Git repository and existing JAMstack frameworks and is in beta now.
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Markdown-Wasm, a Very Fast Markdown Parser Written in WebAssembly
Rasmus Andersson released markdown-wasm, a very fast Markdown parser ported from C to WebAssembly. markdown-wasm is twice as fast as the best JavaScript Markdown parser in one benchmark. markdown-wasm remains additionally small (31KB gzipped).
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Best Practices for Web Developers with Webhint - Rachel Simone Weil at OpenJS World
Rachel Simone Weil, product manager for the new Microsoft Edge’s developer tools, recently gave a talk at OpenJS world addressing how the webhint tool suite supports web developers in implementing best practices.
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Bootstrap 5 Removes jQuery Dependency
The new Bootstrap 5 removes jQuery and no longer supports Internet Explorer (IE).