Daniel Appelquist

·Jun 28

18.0 Beta: Enhanced Privacy, Enhanced UI

With 18.0, we’re building on the release of 17.0 which brought a consolidation and enhancement of privacy features as well as support for web authentication. We’ve also added a few new features and UI tweaks. Let’s have a look! Our new “text capture” feature available from the context menu will…

Samsung Internet

2 min read

18.0 Beta: Enhanced Privacy, Enhanced UI

Laura Morinigo

·May 12

🎉 Launching King Cross Conversations, a video series about the web

Lights, Camera, Web! — Hi web developers, we are happy to announce a new way to connect with you and share the latest news, and best practices about web development: the King Cross Conversations video series. Our team based in London had the opportunity to meet and start visiting Samsung KX, the space by…

Web Development

2 min read

🎉 Launching King Cross Conversations, a video series about the web

Daniel Appelquist

·Apr 19

New with 17.0 Beta: Web Authentication

WebAuthN provides a way to use external security or on-device security keys as an alternative for SMS or App-based 2-factor authentication — Call it Web Authentication, Web Auth or Web AuthN, it’s coming to Samsung Internet Beta 17.0 and will be released in our 17.0 stable release planned for next month. We’ve been testing Web Authentication for a while, behind a flag, but now it’s ready to come out into the light. We’ll be featuring support for security keys connected by USB, NFC and Bluetooth — as well as on-device keys.

Webauthn

1 min read

New with 17.0 Beta: Web Authentication

WebAuthN provides a way to use external security or on-device security keys as an alternative for SMS or App-based 2-factor authentication

Stylised image of a fingerprint on a screen. — Photo George Prentzas by on Unsplash

Call it Web Authentication, Web Auth or Web AuthN, it’s coming to Samsung Internet Beta 17.0 and will be released in our 17.0 stable release planned for next month. We’ve been testing Web Authentication for a while, behind a flag, but now it’s ready to come out into the light. We’ll be featuring support for security keys connected by USB, NFC and Bluetooth — as well as on-device keys.

Ada Rose Cannon

·Apr 6

Integrating Augmented Reality Objects into the Real World with Light and Shadows

Using the WebXR Light Estimation API we can make 3D objects appear to be physical parts of our real environment by having real lights affect virtual objects and virtual objects casting shadows onto real surfaces. This article will explore how to set it up in AFrame to make your own…

Augmented Reality

5 min read

Ada Rose Cannon

·Mar 31

JavaScript scope and closures

What’s what and where — JavaScript is almost famous for some of it’s weird behaviours around variables. This goal of this article is to make it so that you will never be surprised by the value of this or why a variable seems to not change when you set it somewhere else. TL;DR: “use strict”…

Java Script

11 min read

Laura Morinigo

·Mar 14

Samsung Internet 17.0: more privacy with smart anti-tracking and HTTPS by default and other features

Here are the latest updates on your favorite browser — We’re happy to announce our most recent update for Samsung Internet Beta 17.0, which is available to test right now. The update brings new features focused on privacy, safety, and of course User Experience. If you want to start testing it today, you can download it here. 🕵️ Smart Anti-tracking: When it’s about…

Samsung Internet

5 min read

lola odelola

·Feb 25

The State of Online Privacy Pt4

The Topics API Explainer This is a series looking at the ways online privacy, particularly tracking, is changing. If you haven’t already, have a read of part 1, 2, and 3. How Did We Get Here? 2022 was supposed to be the year Chrome deprecated third-party cookies and a new way of tracking people was…

Web Privacy

4 min read

lola odelola

·Feb 9

The State of Online Tracking Pt3

Moving on from Third-party Cookies In this instalment of the series, I want to talk about Google’s push to ban 3rd party cookies. If you haven’t read part 1: An Introduction to Cookies and part 2: First-party vs. …

Privacy

5 min read

Sylwester Mielniczuk

·Feb 1

The Web(GL) from your wrist!

Hey! I have a new watch capable of displaying web content, even more — it can do WebGL for blazing-fast 2D/3D animations! But now, I would love to use its 44mm display as a simple remote controller. …

Wearables

4 min read

Laura Morinigo

·Jan 17

🪐 New year, new web advocacy goals

Privacy, Dark Mode, Multi-device support, Web 3.0? Let’s review what 2021 left us and do some predictions for 2022 — Happy new year from the Samsung Internet team! We hope you had a good start and you feel as excited as we are to see which are gonna be the latest updates of the web this year. Before we jump ahead into the future, we will also review some of…

Web 3

5 min read

18.0 Beta: Enhanced Privacy, Enhanced UI

🎉 Launching King Cross Conversations, a video series about the web

New with 17.0 Beta: Web Authentication

New with 17.0 Beta: Web Authentication

WebAuthN provides a way to use external security or on-device security keys as an alternative for SMS or App-based 2-factor authentication

Integrating Augmented Reality Objects into the Real World with Light and Shadows

JavaScript scope and closures

Samsung Internet 17.0: more privacy with smart anti-tracking and HTTPS by default and other features

The State of Online Privacy Pt4

The State of Online Tracking Pt3

The Web(GL) from your wrist!

🪐 New year, new web advocacy goals

Editors

Daniel Appelquist

Ada Rose Cannon

Laura Morinigo