Best of Browsers — September 2022

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    Avatar of streamStream·4y

    HTTP, WebSocket, gRPC, or WebRTC

    HTTP, WebSocket, gRPC, and WebRTC: Which Communication Protocol is Best For Your App? We’ll explore each protocol by investigating the technology behind it, what it’s best used for, and its strengths and weaknesses. The best form of communication will always be dependent on the situation.

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    Avatar of changelogChangelog·4y

    TIL: You Can Access A User’s Camera with Just HTML

    You can put the capture attribute on inputs with the type of file, and you can give it a value of “ user” or ‘environment’ The interesting thing about the captured attribute is for users coming to your website on a mobile device.

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    Avatar of dwbDavid Walsh·4y

    CSS :autofill

    CSS:autofill Autofill is an unnatural act, so signaling to that the value in an input was changed without control is important. To add custom CSS styles to inputs whose contents have been autofilled by the browser, you can use the autofill pseudo-class.

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    Four useful built-in JavaScript web APIs

    The Geolocation API allows you to get a user's current position and watch a user’s. The history API is an API that allows developers to move forward or backward, move to a particular page in a users' history and modify the website's URL without refreshing the whole page in single-page applications. You can learn more about the history API in the MDN documentation. Open Source Session ReplayOpenReplay is an open-source and session replay suite.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·4y

    Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default web browsers

    Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default web browsers. UK's competition watchdog has published a final report highlighting "substantial concerns" about the market dominance of Google and Apple. Mozilla's report accuses the big tech firms of a wide variety of different instances of malpractice.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·4y

    WWW vs non-WWW: Which is Better for SEO?

    For most of the history of the internet, most websites used a “www” prefix followed by a domain name. The WWW prefix is used to help identify a web address or location. Modern browsers are starting to hide the www part of websites in the search bar. This means fewer redirects occur when using non-www URLs for sites with plenty of direct traffic.

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    Avatar of asayerasayer·4y

    Making your Web Pages Printer-Friendly with CSS

    Modern browsers are good at printing grid and flexbox layouts, but some designs will be more of a challenge than others. If your screen styles require too many overrides, you use display: none; in your print CSS to remove and collapse headers, navigation menus, forms, video players, audio players, sidebars, advertising, and more. The print CSS can set more appropriate weights, colors, and dimensions. If you're attempting a complex layout, it’s easier to linearize the content.

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