Bad idea of the day: a browser extension that gives you long-now-dates by prefixing a zero to all four digit numbers

In the future when people tell me the web stack is an acceptable GUI layer I should just show them this: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17309078/digital-art-diana-a-smith-francine-coded-browser-art ; if drawing a picture is impressive with your tools, your tools are shit

Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.

So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.

Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more

How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/

GitHub - WorldBrain/Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history & bookmarks. https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex

Bad idea of the day: an extension that decreases the size of images based on how many copies of similar images are already in your browser cache

Bad idea of the day: Instead of ads mining bitcoins in your browser, they run IPFS nodes and pin arbitrary hashes in browser persistent storage then store them.

GitHub - mattgodbolt/compiler-explorer: Run compilers interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly https://github.com/mattgodbolt/compiler-explorer

@saabeilin @micaelwidell You can read in the browser: https://t.co/vCzXnihOsG

Remember to add “AddDefaultCharset utf-8” for your twtxt file if you’re using apache. Otherwise browsers will serve cp1252. The twtxt clients won’t care but maybe someone is watching your file with a browser?

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx I think there’s just a charset=utf-8 missing to see it correctly in the browser. It’s fine in a terminal.

@tomas@bootlog.org Something weird is happening when i want to curl your twtfile: Empty reply from server. Browsers works fine.

@ebidel @googledevs Probably http://t.co/plZUD7ckk4 says “While your browser seems to support WebGL, it is disabled or unavailable.”

@googledevs “Searching for events is not supported in your browser” :( 41.0.2272.76 (64-bit) xUbuntu

W3C Workshop on Identity in the Browser ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/11N

New repository: aquilax/novigeroi2 - PHP CodeIgeniter browser-based rpg game

Video quality while on 3G
The same day I got the iPad 3G, I noticed a very contrasting video quality while using Wi-Fi and while using 3G. Videos watched on Youtube would have HD quality (Wi-Fi); same videos, while on 3G, would show horribly. Yet, videos on Apple, while on 3G or Wi-Fi, would show perfectly. All that whether using the app or the web browser, tested both.

Is it Youtube serving a very low quality video to 3G users? Is it AT&T doing it? Is it something built-in on iOS? ⌘ Read more

gOS is coming our way
Yes, it is coming!

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear – computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to wo … ⌘ Read more

Safari 4 Beta
Safari 4 Beta is out and it is rocking. Apple has adopted (copied) quite a bit from Chrome interface and I have to say the browser looks and behaves awesomely under Windows 7.

But, why bore you with senseless praise? Go download it, and see it for yourself. ⌘ Read more

Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet

Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft – despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses – to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between the … ⌘ Read more

Lets us make sure
Comes v. Microsoft – Plaintiff’s Exhibit 2991 – (PDF)

From:     Bill Gates
Sent:     Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:44 AM
To:       Bob Muglia; Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
Cc:       Paul Maritz
Subject:  Office rendering

One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most de … ⌘ Read more

Single sign on
Since I am going to start migrating all my web logins to a single sign on approach (using Chris Zarate SuperGenPass), I think the best way to start is by saving the bookmarklet I will have to use over and over. There is a Greasemonkey version available, which has much more features than this bookmarklet version. I will use the latest because it works with all browsers.

The bookmarklet is: Single Sign on.. Drag and drop it on you … ⌘ Read more

Sunday morning rants
As I previously wrote, I believe IE is no match to Firefox. I will tell everyone I know about its problems, I will show those to them if I can. I will praise the goods of Firefox, so everyone I know will enjoy web browsing as much as I am. But…

One thing is not using IE and another thing is not serving pages to those using it. That’s plain wrong. It is like going to a japanese restaurant and have sushi … ⌘ Read more

The worse Web Browser
Not too long ago I was an Internet Explorer fan. The pages I went to looked fine under it, the experience seemed rich. There were no complains. Then I started fiddling with CSS and moving away from tables. I experienced the advantages of the PNG format and I loved it. I experienced functionability I never saw before. I got tired of hearing about major problems and running security updates. I got my eyes opened.

I wonder why it took that long. Perhaps Mozilla Firefox was not that polis … ⌘ Read more

Philosophical confussion
I do not like unsolicited pop-up windows. I like even less unsolicited browser resizing. Missuse of web cookies blows and should be illegal. Junk and spam emails are a disease (well, not for me, since I use TMDA on my John Companies server and I get zero spam) that is getting out of hand. Porno and the sex industry for sure are a profitable business; most of the spam today adver … ⌘ Read more