Links tagged “browser”
31 links, newest first.
steveharrison.dev
window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world - the File System Access API, used in anger.
blog.pyodide.org
Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI. A concrete step for the Python-in-the-browser story.
github.com
chromautomation: A modern MCP that makes chrome usable by any LLM
browseros.com
The AI Browser War • We're starting to see a new battle amongst giants and llm providers over reinventing browsers (bundled with ai, of course...). Perplexity launched Comet, OpenAI announced they'd do the same soon, Google is talking about bringing Gemini in Chrome (in fact, there are already some geminization available in chrome dev tools). I want to emphasize BrowserOS, an open source alternative that may be worth trying.
blog.mozilla.ai
Wasm-agents: AI agents running in your browser (by Mozilla)
microsoft.github.io
Home of Monaco, the code editor extracted from VS Code, with a playground, API documentation and samples for embedding it in a web page.
24ways.org
How to give a site a custom offline page with a service worker — cache it up front, then serve it whenever a network request fails.
bitsofco.de
Explains what CSS display: contents does — dropping an element's own box while its children stay in the layout — and where it helps with grid and flexbox markup.
medium.com
Measures how JavaScript parse and compile time dominates web app start-up on mobile, and lists what developers and browser vendors can each do to shorten it.
chromium.googlesource.com
Source and readme for hterm, a JavaScript library providing a terminal emulator that renders terminal output and keyboard input in a browser; it is not a shell or an SSH client.
url.spec.whatwg.org
WHATWG living standard defining URL parsing and serialisation, domains, IP addresses, the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format and the URL API.
developers.google.com
Guide to browser HTTP caching: how Cache-Control, ETag and Last-Modified work, and how to pick a strategy for versioned and unversioned URLs.
pouchdb.com
JavaScript database inspired by CouchDB that stores data locally in the browser or Node and syncs it back to a CouchDB server once the app is online again.
medium.com
An early introduction to WebAssembly as a low-level binary format for the web, complementing JavaScript and letting other languages run in the browser.
