State of the browser is an small, annual conference in London. It originated as a format of 20 minute presentations by each browser maker followed by a panel allowing people to hear browser news straight from the horse’s mouth. It…
WebAssembly Browser Preview
Since the last WebAssembly milestone we reached in March, we’ve been hard at work in the WebAssembly Community Group to define a standard and to implement that standard in our respective browsers. I’m happy to say now that we have…
Songsearch – using ServiceWorker to make a 4 MB CSV easily searchable in a browser
A few days ago I got an email about an old project of mine that uses
New blog design – I let the browser do most of the work…
Unless you are reading the RSS feed or the AMP version of this blog, you’ll see that some things changed here. Last week I spent an hour redesigning this blog from scrarch. No, I didn’t move to another platform (WordPress…
Record almost everything in the browser with MediaRecorder
The MediaRecorder API lets you record media streams, i.e. moving images and audio. The result of these recordings can be, for example, an OGG file, like the ones you use to listen to music. Browser-wise, we can obtain streams in…
Don’t tell me what my browser can’t do!
Chances are, your guess is wrong! Arrogance towards possible customers never pays out – as shown in “Pretty Woman” There is nothing more frustrating than being capable of something and not getting a chance to do it. The same goes…
Mind the gap – State of the Browser 5 was a blast
Yesterday was the fifth edition of State of the Browser in London, England. SOTB was always a special kind of event: representatives of all the browsers (and confusion about what Apple might be up to) came, gave short talks about…
Makethumbnails.com – drop images into the browser, get a zip of thumbnails
About 2½ years ago I wrote a demo for Mozilla Hacks how to use Canvas to create thumbnails. Now I felt the itch to update this a bit and add more useful functionality. The result is: http://makethumbnails.com It is very…