Browsers

Most folks use one of the big browsers that we’ve all heard of. But there are more and more niche browsers built upon those big open source engines that differentiate themselves in interesting ways.

Web browsers are tens of millions of lines of code written over decades to adhere to long, complex standards specifications and defend against all manner of malicious behavior. I’ve long been convinced that an entirely new browser (not a fork or a skinning) would be impossible to build today. Just scratch pad math, maybe 100 […]

You should know that in-app browser can and do literally inject JavaScript into the websites you visit with them with tracking scripts from the app you’re inside of. And that’s just one thing that sucks about them.

Props to Cennydd Bowles and Harry Bringnull for calling out this poor behavior on Microsoft’s part. Microsoft Edge is literally injecting a big banner on Chrome’s download page telling people that Edge is better. Of all Microsoft’s tactics, the most objectionable for me is their dissuasive messaging injected directly into the Chrome download page. As […]

Here’s a little thought about the precarious relationship we live with on the web. As web developers, we have very little power over the platforms we build on. We’re given what we’re given, we use what we get. We can say what we want, but it may or may not have any influence; there are […]