https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/gdpr-for-web-developers/ Europe’s imminent privacy overhaul means that we all have to become more diligent about what data we collect, how we collect it, and what we do with it. In our turbulent times, these privacy obligations are about ethics as well as law. Web developers have a major role to play here. After all, healthy →
https://opensource.com/alternatives/dreamweaver Not all that many years ago, pretty much every webpage on the Internet was, at some level, designed painstakingly by hand editing of HTML. It was tough. Next step was that WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor began to emerge as a tool of empowerment to millions of amateur and professional →
Here are some interesting infographics links to view: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-5-tech-giants-make-billions/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare Here are http://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/top-100-websites.html →
http://www.zdnet.com/article/mosaics-birthday-25-years-of-the-modern-web/ The first popular web browser was Mosaic. Mosaic’s first beta was released for Unix operating systems running X Window on January 23, 1993. It wasn’t the first graphical web browser. That honor goes to ViolaWWW, although some argue the even more obscure Erwise should get the credit for being the first web browser. I →
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DougPearson/20171212/311570/Post_Mortem_The_Death_of_Flash_and_Rewriting_14_Million_Lines_of_Code.php Adobe recently confirmed the suspicion held by many in the games industry that Flash is a dying platform. The official announcement that Flash will be discontinued in 2020 is threatening the infrastructure for many games and mobile apps, putting developers in a position to either abandon or overhaul their proprietary code built meticulously over →
https://opensource.com/article/17/1/brotli-compression-algorithm?sc_cid=70160000001273HAAQ Brotli is a new open source compression algorithm designed to enable an Internet that’s faster for users. While the Brotli algorithm was announced by Google in September 2015, only recently have the majority of web browsers adopted it and HTTP servers started to offer Brotli compression. Brotli accomplishes better than gzip compression by making use of a →
https://opensource.com/article/17/12/learn-javascript?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY HTML, cascading stylesheets (CSS), and JavaScript have experienced massive growth and evolution over the past two decades. More than 25 years have passed since the first web pages produced with JavaScript were developed, and things have improved immensely. There are tons of JavaScript libraries and frameworks out there. →
https://opensource.com/article/17/8/using-javascript-hack-web?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY Not all hacking is mischief. Here’s how you can use JavaScript to make your browser better. →
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-how-firefox-got-fast-again-and-where-its-going-to-get-faster/ Over the past seven months, Mozilla developers have been rapidly replacing major parts of the engine, introducing Rust and parts of Servo to Firefox. Plus, thety have worked on performance issues, both obvious and non-obvious. This newly released Firefox is called Project Quantum. This posting goes through the biggest changes to Firefox browser. →
https://gbhackers.com/owasp-top-10-2017-released/ Open Web Application Security Project(OWASP) released new Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Risks list. With the new release, they have completely refactored the methodology of categorizing risks. →