As we finish up the next release of Windows 10 (Fall 2018), my team is hard at work triaging incoming bugs. Many such bugs take the form “Edge does the wrong thing for this page. ${Other_Browser} works okay.” This post is designed to be an (ever-growing) index of some of the behavioral deltas that areContinue reading “Edge Interop Issues”
Tag Archives: browsers
Stop Spilling the Beans
I’ve written about Same Origin Policy a bunch over the years, with a blog series mapping it to the Read/Write/Execute mental model. More recently, I wrote about why Content-Type headers matter for same-origin-policy enforcement. I’ve just read a great paper on cross-origin infoleaks and current/future mitigations. If you’re interested in browser security, it’s definitely worth a read.
Fight Phish with Facebook (and Certificate Transparency)
As of April 30th 2018, Chrome now requires that all certificates issued by a public certificate authority be logged in multiple public Certificate Transparency (CT) logs, ensuring that anyone can audit all certificates that have been issued. (Update: Microsoft Edge 79+ also mandates CT). CT logs allow site owners and security researchers to much more easily detectContinue reading “Fight Phish with Facebook (and Certificate Transparency)”
Going Offline with ServiceWorker
In the IE8 era, I had a brief stint as an architect on the IE team, trying to figure out a coherent strategy and a deployable set of technologies that would allow web developers to build offline-capable web applications. A few of those ideas turned into features, several turned into unimplemented patents, and a fewContinue reading “Going Offline with ServiceWorker”
Working on Google Chrome – Year One
Four weeks ago, emailed notice of a free massage credit revealed that I’ve been at Google for a year. Time flies when you’re drinking from a firehose. When I mentioned my anniversary, friends and colleagues from other companies asked what I’ve learned while working on Chrome over the last year. This rambling post is anContinue reading “Working on Google Chrome – Year One”