Regular readers of my blog know how excited I am about Google’s new open compression engine, Brotli. Support is in Firefox 44 Nightly already and is expected for other browsers. Because Brotli is used inside the WOFF2 font format, many clients already have the compression code and just need to expose it in a newContinue reading “Fiddler and Brotli”
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Duct Tape and Baling Wire–Cookie Prefixes
Update: Cookie Prefixes are supported by Chrome 49, Opera 36, and Firefox 50. Test page; no status from the Edge team. A new cookie feature called SameSite Cookies has been shipped by Chrome, Firefox and Edge; it addresses slightly different threats. When I worked on Internet Explorer, we were severely constrained on development resources. WhileContinue reading “Duct Tape and Baling Wire–Cookie Prefixes”
WebP–What Isn’t Google Telling Us?
Beyond their awesome work on Zopfli and Brotli, Google has brought their expertise in compression to bear on video and image formats. One of the most interesting of these efforts is WebP, an image format designed to replace the aging JPEG (lossy) and PNG (lossless) image formats. WebP offers more efficient compression mechanisms than bothContinue reading “WebP–What Isn’t Google Telling Us?”
Eloquence
If I were a better writer, I’d write as well as Maciej does. A very nice presentation on privacy, advertising, malvertising, click fraud, and more: http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm
Help–The Whole Web Thinks I’m Using IE7!!!
Every few weeks for the last six or so years, I see someone complain on Twitter or in forums that the entire Internet seems to think they’re running an old version of IE. For instance, an IE11 user on Windows 8.1 might see the following warning on Facebook: These warnings typically occur when the browserContinue reading “Help–The Whole Web Thinks I’m Using IE7!!!”
Ad Publishers–A TODO List
Where’s Google’s* blog on how they’re doing everything they can to make ads they serve as fast and small as possible? Where’s Google’s blog on how many ads they’ve nuked as “deceptive” and trumpeting how policy forbids ads for “adware-wrapped” installers? Where’s Google’s blog about how many billions of ad-generated dollars they’ve supplied to contentContinue reading “Ad Publishers–A TODO List”
Ad-Block: Current Status
Microsoft used to joke about cutting off a competitor’s air supply. Apple instead handed shears to devs, pointed at a hose, and walked out. As iOS9 launches, here’s the list of top paid apps in the iTunes AppStore: It’s only a question of when, not if, the top slot of the Free Apps category isContinue reading “Ad-Block: Current Status”
Developer Advocacy
The Microsoft Edge (nee Internet Explorer) team held one of their “#AskMSEdge chats” on Twitter yesterday. After watching the stream, @MarkXA neatly summarized the chat: The folks over on WindowsCentral built out a larger summary of the tidbits of news that did get answered on the chat, some of which were just pointers to theirContinue reading “Developer Advocacy”
Brotli
2022 Update: Brotli is requested by 94% of browsers, offers great performance, and works amazingly well on Web Assembly code. If you’re still using GZIP today, you should update! Regular readers of my blog know how much I love Zopfli, Google’s compression engine that often shrinks output by 5% or better when compared to theContinue reading “Brotli”
Fiddler Certificate Generators
Fiddler and FiddlerCore offer three different choices for generating interception certificates: MakeCert CertEnroll Bouncy Castle If you’re so inclined, you can even write your own certificate generator (say, by wrapping OpenSSL) and expose it to Fiddler using the ICertificateProvider3 interface. On Windows, Fiddler includes the MakeCert and CertEnroll certificate generators by default; you can downloadContinue reading “Fiddler Certificate Generators”
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