Update 2017–06–15: For those just catching up on WebUSB this article is no longer up to date with the current spec or what is implemented in Chromium. The manufacturer whitelisting requirement for device access is no longer enforced. Please see the “Security and Privacy…

I’ve been using App Engine for many years to develop web apps at Google. Most of the open source projects I’ve worked on use it for its simplicity and scalability. A couple of examples are the Google I/O web app, the Chrome team’s Chromestatus.com…

Service workers give web developers the ability to respond to network requests made by their web applications, allowing them to continue working even while offline, fight lie-fi…

Many of you know that I am passionate about inter-app communications, specifically the action of sharing. One of the things that I have encouraged anyone who wants to do the next version of Web Intents to do is focus on a very small and specific…

(index):34 A Parser-blocking, cross-origin script, https://paul.kinlan.me/ad-inject.js, is invoked via document.write(). This…

In his Ode to the Desktop, Dion writes:

I consumed more and created less

I’ve written down similar thoughts many years ago, and I’m glad we’re having this discussion again. The above summarizes the biggest flaw of the new and shiny…

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With Chrome 53, you can now easily create encapsulated, re-usable web components with Shadow DOM v1; mobile payments…