Updated May 2021 to talk about permissions policies in stead of feature policies. Many moving parts related to Client Hints were enabled by default in Chrome version 84. Starting in this version, access to Client Hints can be delegated to 3rd parties. 🎉 Client Hints Client Hints has been here for a while – since Chrome 35 in […]
This morning I was reading an important reminder from Jeremy Keith. It’s about Progressive Enhancement works and how the server plays an important role in the enhancement step of the process. Even with better tools and abilities for client side work, we still need a server to produce some content and send it to the browser: These […]
I’ve been following the development of this initiative from Google more or less since it was first filed as a note on Github. Yesterday, the Chrome team announced an “Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string”. Along with this intent, an intent to ship Client Hints infrastructure and UA Client Hints is published. “UA […]
ImageEngine: Device Detection by WURFL, helps ImageEngine outperform alternative solutions by 42%!
I was really exited when I learned that Safari decided to support video content in image tags! It was scheduled for iOS 11.3 which was supposed to ship Safari 11.1 with all sorts of goodies. I’m not covering service workers here. I’m more exited about replacing animated gifs with mp4 video in <img> tags! Converting gifs […]
Time files! Good thing 2016 is over, right? Didn’t blog much last year either (I’ll just accept that I’ll never be much of a blogger), but luckily others blogged about all the good things that happened to web and mobile last year! Less work for me. Still, I’d like to pull out a few high-lights. […]
Responsive Images (new tags and attributes to display images that “adapt” to the browser) has been in the wild for a while. Is it what we hoped for? IMHO it is a think you pull up if you really really have to. Here is why: You still need polyfills. You have to look up the […]
Native apps on mobile devices account for an increasing amount of web traffic. Facebook being the most popular “in app browser”. Sometimes these apps provide some interesting information in the user-agent. Facebook does it, and Instagram does it. Here are some examples of how a user agent string may look like for Instagram: iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 […]
This tweet appeared in my twitter stream today: Posted without comment. Mainly because I’m speechless. pic.twitter.com/EXX6UUUHk4 — Rachel Lawson (@rachel_norfolk) July 7, 2016 I had to try the site http://www.dieseljoggjeans.com. And true, it did not work on mobile. Although the site was “responsive” as advertised, but no real content for me on my mobile device. Which […]
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is a rather new term in the web industry. You may know the term “Progressive”, which has been around for a while, but now we postfix it with “Web Apps”, and not “Enhancement”. Let’s face it: Apps are an easier sell. When you hear “Progressive”, think Enhancement, not Apps. To be […]