Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web | WIRED
Not surprised, but still somewhat stunned by this news. Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web | WIRED.
Tag: webkit
Still Using Firebug?
As a web developer, I hadn’t decided to focus on front-end work until another developer told me about Firebug. When I started targeting mobile, I switched to the Developer Tools suite (DevTools) built in to Google’s Chrome browser. Two years later and I’m just beginning to realize what I’ve been missing. I was on the /r/javascript forum on Reddit… Read More Still Using Firebug?
WebKit Gets New Features in Safari Mobile on iOS 6
Not a huge deal, but we can see where this is going. requestAnimationFrame and cancelAnimationFrame are very useful for – drum roll – JavaScript animation. WebKit on iOS now supports the requestAnimationFrame and cancelAnimationFrame methods in JavaScript, as described here http://www.w3.org/TR/animation-timing/. Note that because the specification is still at the Working Draft state, these methods have the webkit prefix,… Read More WebKit Gets New Features in Safari Mobile on iOS 6
Three Steps to a Fullscreen Web App on iOS Safari
Intro When the iPhone concept started taking shape at Apple, installed apps were not given much consideration. No plan existed for an installed app marketplace because the WebKit-based iOS Safari mobile browser would be able to do all the work,* thus allowing web apps to be written in a unified standard. And that unified standard… Read More Three Steps to a Fullscreen Web App on iOS Safari
Camera Coming to Android’s Default Browser
Can’t wait until this is available on iOS Safari mobile. From your browser you can now upload pictures and videos from the camera as well as sounds from the microphone. via Android 3.0 Honeycomb is first to implement the Device API | David Calhouns Blog.
DVR Powered by WebKit
ARRIS Group, Inc. has released their Moxi 2.0 DVR software and it’s got a WebKit build powering its interface. With browsers showing up in hardware appliances we’re fast-approaching the day when the term “web developer” may become an anachronism, supplanted as the web stack becomes the world’s unified user interface standard. Moxi software release 2.0… Read More DVR Powered by WebKit
Stopping “Dev Only” Assets in their Tracks
This is a novel approach to solving a problem I’ve others mention on more than one occasion. All the various W3C html specs mandate a value for the src attribute of the tag. The W3C spec does not, however, specify that said value must be URI. Rather, it may be the actual encoded MIME data… Read More Stopping “Dev Only” Assets in their Tracks
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