Here are some web trends for 2020:
Responsive web design in 2020 should be a given because every serious project that you create should look good and be completely usable on all devices. But there’s no need to over-complicate things.
Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn article gives an overview of recommendations what you learn to become a web developer in 2020.
You might have seen Web 3.0 on some slides. What is the definition of web 3 we are talking about here?
There seems to be many different to choose from… Some claim that you need to blockchain the cloud IOT otherwise you’ll just get a stack overflow in the mainframe but I don’t agree on that.
Information on the web address bar will be reduced on some web browsers. With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.
You still should target to build quality web site and avoid the signs of a low-quality web site. Get good inspiration for your web site design.
Still a clear and logical structure is the first thing that needs to be turned over in mind before the work on the website gears up. The website structure for search robots is its internal links. The more links go to a page, the higher its priority within the website, and the more times the search engine crawls it.
You should upgrade your web site, but you need to do it sensibly and well. Remember that a site upgrade can ruin your search engine visibility if you do it badly. The biggest risk to your site getting free search engine visibility is site redesign. Bad technology selection can ruin the visibility of a new site months before launch. Many new sites built on JavaScript application frameworks do not benefit in any way from the new technologies. Before you go into this bandwagon, you should think critically about whether your site will benefit from the dynamic capabilities of these technologies more than they can damage your search engine visibility. Well built redirects can help you keep the most outbound links after site changes.
If you go to the JavaScript framework route on your web site, keep in mind that there are many to choose, and you need to choose carefully to find one that fits for your needs and is actively developed also in the future.
JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you’re not alone… a chunk of pros also feel JS is ‘overly complex’
Keep in mind the recent changes on the video players and Google analytics. And for animated content keep in mind that GIF animations exists still as a potential tool to use.
Keep in mind the the security. There is a skill gap in security for many. I’m not going to say anything that anyone who runs a public-facing web server doesn’t already know: the majority of these automated blind requests are for WordPress directories and files. PHP exploits are a distant second. And there are many other things that are automatically attacked. Test your site with security scanners.
APIs now account for 40% of the attack surface for all web-enabled apps. OWASP has identified 10 areas where enterprises can lower that risk. There are many vulnerability scanning tools available. Check also How to prepare and use Docker for web pentest . Mozilla has a nice on-line tool for web site security scanning.
The slow death of Flash continues. If you still use Flash, say goodbye to it. Google says goodbye to Flash, will stop indexing Flash content in search.
Use HTTPS on your site because without it your site rating will drop on search engines visibility. It is nowadays easy to get HTTPS certificates.
Write good content and avoid publishing fake news on your site. Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy,
Think to who you are aiming to your business web site to. Analyze who is your “true visitor” or “power user”. A true visitor is a visitor to a website who shows a genuine interest in the content of the site. True visitors are the people who should get more of your site and have the potential to increase the sales and impact of your business. The content that your business offers is intended to attract visitors who are interested in it. When they show their interest, they are also very likely to be the target group of the company.
Should you think of your content management system (CMS) choice? Flexibility, efficiency, better content creation: these are just some of the promised benefits of a new CMS. Here is How to convince your developers to change CMS.
Here are some fun for the end:
Did you know that if a spider creates a web at a place?
The place is called a website
Confession: How JavaScript was made.
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Eurooppalaiset käyttävät 575 miljoonaa tuntia vuodessa cookie-bannereiden klikkailuun. En tosin minä, koska Brave piilottaa ne automaattisesti. https://legiscope.com/blog/hidden-productivity-drain-cookie-banners.html
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
Four former Google executives say innovation by rivals is key to breaking Google Search’s dominance, and ChatGPT-like tools will one day supplant Google Search
Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Google’s Search Monopoly
Despite shared concerns about Google’s power, critics of the company and former executives express little agreement on what, if anything, can really be done to increase competition.
https://www.wired.com/story/doj-google-chrome-antitrust/
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Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Google’s Search Monopoly
Despite shared concerns about Google’s power, critics of the company and former executives express little agreement on what, if anything, can really be done to increase competition.
The Google Chrome application left on a smartphone arranged in the Queens borough of New York US on Tuesday Nov. 19…
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To dismantle Google’s illegal monopoly over how Americans search the web, the US Department of Justice wants the tech giant to end its lucrative partnership with Apple, share a trove of proprietary data with competitors and advertisers, and “promptly and fully divest Chrome,” Google’s search engine that controls over half of the US market. The government wants Google to sell Chrome to a buyer it approves, arguing the divesture would “pry open the monopolized markets to competition, remove barriers to entry, and ensure there remain no practices likely to result in unlawful monopolization.”
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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US DOJ’s proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-21/justice-department-seeks-google-chrome-sale-to-curb-monopoly
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website’s focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse”
oogle is further cracking down on sites publishing ‘parasite SEO’ content
/ The search giant is updating its spam policy, this time targeting websites that host content meant to take advantage of site ranking
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/19/24299762/google-search-parasite-seo-publishers-advon
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Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky’s DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5
Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk’s X
Social media giant’s Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges
https://www.ft.com/content/e1b52147-c171-4902-8bce-204ba0905912
Meta’s Threads is losing ground to social media start-up Bluesky in capitalising on the exodus of users from Elon Musk’s X following Donald Trump’s election.
Since election day, app usage of Bluesky in the US and UK skyrocketed by almost 300 per cent to 3.5mn daily users, according to data from research group Similarweb. The site was boosted as academics, journalists and left-leaning politicians abandoned X, whose billionaire owner is a prominent supporter of the president-elect.
Prior to November 5, Threads had five times more daily active users in the US than Bluesky, which has just 20 full-time staff and was initially funded by Twitter when Jack Dorsey was its chief executive. Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger than its rival, Similarweb said.
Bluesky’s growth in the US and UK comes after Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg chose to deliberately reduce the prominence of political content across its apps, including Facebook and Instagram.
That move was widely interpreted as an attempt to rise about the partisan fray and avoid being dragged into debates over free speech. Trump, who has long castigated social media platforms for allegedly censoring conservative voices, previously labelled Meta “an enemy of the people” and threatened Zuckerberg with jail were he to return to office. Last month, Trump said he liked Zuckerberg “much better now” because he was “staying out of the election”.
This contrasts with X, which under Musk’s ownership, has cut back content moderation to allow more freewheeling content to proliferate.
Since its launch in July last year, Threads has prioritised engaging content from accounts that users did not follow, a model closer to that of its photo app Instagram. However, Meta on Thursday backtracked on that choice.
This week, it also swiftly rolled out the ability for users to curate “custom feeds” around topics or people they want to follow, mimicking existing Bluesky capabilities, after testing the feature for only five days.
The moves sparked speculation that Meta was trying to curb Bluesky’s rise.
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Financial Times:
The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky”
https://www.ft.com/content/9083d7f8-d2e6-4e08-a324-8def68258efd
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Kagi (/ˈkɑː.ɡi/ kah-gee[1]) is a paid ad-free search engine developed by Kagi Inc., a company located in Palo Alto, California.[2] It is based on a monthly subscription and requires users to be logged into an account to search. It functions as a metasearch engine but also has its own indexes for websites and news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagi_(search_engine)
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273,858 free open source icons & illustrations
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Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech:
The rise of generative AI will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps — I’m addicted to Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be lighter.
Will A.I. Eat The Browser?
https://crazystupidtech.com/archive/will-ai-eat-the-browser/
For most of us, it’s hard to imagine life without an internet browser. But as AI disaggregates information from text, video, and music into unique remixable AI chatbot answer streams, it’s clear to me that over the next decade the browser will need to adapt or die.
Ever since I saw the earliest versions of Humane’s AIPin, Snap’s AR glasses, and caught wind of what would become Apple’s Vision Pro, I have wondered about the durability of the browser. Just over two years ago, with the arrival of a user-friendly version of ChatGPT, everything fell into place.
I don’t expect these devices to dominate the world next year or the year after, but the journey has begun. And it’s already clear that many of these emerging devices are not like the computers we have used thus far. For starters, some of them won’t even have screens or keyboards.
Secondly, with the rise of generative AI, we are starting to see atomization of web pages themselves. This in itself undermines the original premise of the web and how it has been built thus far. If there are no documents to connect, how does the browser do what it has done so far? (Bill Gross made a similar point in a conversation with Fred earlier this year. You can read Fred’s story on his new company on CrazyStupidTech.com.)
More importantly, lost in the “AI” and “AGI” hype is the fact that the real breakthrough is the ability of large language models and related technologies to take data and create logical streams, generating text, video, or audio content. This is the fundamental advancement from an “information” standpoint. Even early (and recently developed) tools like NotebookLM (which creates audio from text) give us a directional view of the future.
For instance, a decade (or sooner) from now, a customer of AppleNews could ask it to create a curated morning news show featuring information from preselected sources and topics, and have a synthetically created influencer either read it to them or have them watch it on a future version of Vision Pro, or something akin to it.
None of this is science fiction — you can pretty much do all of these things now, albeit poorly. In time, it won’t just be possible — it will be second nature. As such, it will be a big change in how the information ecosystem on the internet has worked so far. These new technologies give us an opportunity to have more personalized, dialog-centric control over the information.
Current apps require active user engagement. We must consciously track everything. We are always taking photos, or logging information and manually tracking calories, or checking ingredient lists, and researching nutrition facts when grocery shopping. The technical challenge isn’t just building a better food database. It’s creating seamless monitoring and intervention without requiring constant user input.
In the near future, you can imagine a non-human entity — let’s call it a DietBot — acting as your personal nutritionist and meal planner and requiring little to no effort on your part.
While browsers are so ubiquitous that it may be hard to imagine life without them, the truth is that we humans have had to adapt to what has been a document-centric web experience. We have been forced to adapt to technological constraints, rather than technology truly adapting to human needs.
The entire ecosystem of the web exists for monetization by large platforms, and — as people like Flipboard founder and CEO Mike McCue, who worked for Netscape during its heyday, will tell you, it has served this purpose quite well.
“Since the mid-90s, the web and the web browser have been exclusively focused on connecting and rendering content using open standards like HTML and HTTP,” he said. “This worked well for decades and fueled the rise of super valuable web-based businesses like Amazon, Airbnb, and many others.”
McCue believes that with protocols like ActivityPub, combined with AI, we can create a more personalized, mediated information experience. While he views AI interfaces like Claude and ChatGPT as a seismic shift, he believes that “you’ll always need some technical vehicle.” What will change is how that vehicle is used. Just as the browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps, the personalized, interactive, dialogue-centric AI system will force the browser to evolve again.
So, what might that evolution look like?
Josh Miller, co-founder of The Browser Company, is making “Arc,” a browser for the AI-first era. He believes that there is less of a need for the user interface of the browser of the past, but the internals of the browser are going to be pivotal for our future. “While most think we are building a browser,” Miller said in a conversation, “what we are building is a browser-based system.”
He wants to transform the browser from a mere viewer to an operating system-like entity that maintains personal preferences and behaviors at the system level, allowing us to use “AI” across devices without replicating our choices at the app level. His new browser-based OS will understand user context and preferences at a fundamental level, making it easier to create personalized experiences. Rather than having applications dictate how we interact with information, our usage patterns and preferences will shape how information and services are presented to us.
Miller believes the web browser’s core technologies, especially those that are open and widely adopted standards, make it easy for browsers to evolve quickly and adapt to a future where we will interact with multiple devices — not just desktop or laptop computers, or mobile phones. After all, wearables and devices without screens will need to browse, retrieve, and interact with information without the need for a browser as we know it.
Just as the iPhone positioned itself as a reinvention of the phone, the browser will go through a similar transition, Miller said. The transition however “will be gradual” and the current form of the browser “will actually be an important” part of that transition “almost as a way to bridge” people to the future and “let their guard down.”
As VR, AR, audio interfaces, and chat become ever more central to our daily lives — and not just for Vision Pro addicts like myself, but for everyone — the web browser’s limitations are becoming increasingly apparent. There is no doubt in my mind that the implications of this seismic change in what a browser does, and how it works, will be felt far and wide.
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Venkat / Windows Report:
Mozilla is removing the “Do Not Track” feature from Firefox in version 135, the first major browser to do so, saying few websites honor the preference
Mozilla Firefox removes “Do Not Track” Feature support: Here’s what it means for your Privacy
Will Chrome, Edge, and Other Privacy-Focused Browsers follow this move?
https://windowsreport.com/mozilla-firefox-removes-do-not-track-feature-support-heres-what-it-means-for-your-privacy/
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What did Finland google the most in 2024?
People in Finland searched for everything from teen slang to the presidential election
https://yle.fi/a/74-20130319
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google Reveals What People Were Searching For In 2024, And It’s Fairly Worrying
2024, like most of its recent predecessors, has been a busy one.
https://www.iflscience.com/google-reveals-what-people-were-searching-for-in-2024-and-its-fairly-worrying-77195
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Vaahtokarkki muuttuu makkaraksi – väärin käännetty vai luovasti oivallettu?
Oikean ja väärän käännöksen ero vaikuttaa selvältä: jos käännös ei vastaa lähtötekstiä, kyseessä täytyy olla virhe. Viestin välittäminen kielestä toiseen saattaa kuitenkin vaatia sanatason merkityksistä poikkeamista. Mikä oikeastaan on käännösvirhe? Muuttuuko käsitys virheestä, jos kääntäjänä on ihmisen sijaan tekoäly?
https://www.tieteessatapahtuu.fi/numerot/5-2024/vaahtokarkki-muuttuu-makkaraksi-vaarin-kaannetty-vai-luovasti-oivallettu
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Tomi Engdahl says:
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WebSummit 2024 – Tulevaisuuden verkkokauppa
Verkkokauppojen haaste on erottuminen, tunnesiteen luominen ja asiakkaan tarpeiden ja toiminnan tukeminen omien viestien lähettämisen sijaan.
https://www.exove.com/fi/blogit/websummit-2024-tulevaisuuden-verkkokauppa/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/safeline-open-source-web-application-firewall-waf/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tim Berners-Lee wants the internet back You would think that a web increasingly driven by AI and AI content will be less open and free, but Berners-Lee is optimistic.
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/tim-berners-lee-wants-the-internet-back-3282218
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S.E. Smith / The Verge:
A look at the quickly disappearing web, as digital decay and link rot erase all kinds of media; a Pew study says 38% of webpages accessible in 2013 are now gone — The internet is forever. But also, it isn’t. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?
How to disappear completely
The internet is forever. But also, it isn’t. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?
https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture