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Chrome for Developers is the company blog at updates.html5rocks.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2011, 73 different Hacker News readers have linked it 102 times, most often “Transferable Objects: Lightning Fast”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Transferable Objects: Lightning Fast6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-12-10
- Stacking Changes Coming to position:fixed elements5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-09-11
- Position: sticky lands in webkit5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-08-30
- Voice Driven Web Apps: Introduction to the Web Speech API4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-01-14
- 300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-12-13
- Getting Gmail to handle all mailto: links with registerProtocolHandler3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-08
- Chrome Credit Card Autofill – Full UX and Code Example3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-10
- Chrome introduces Web App install banners2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-12
- Push Notifications on the Open Web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-12
- Alpha transparency in Chrome video2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-26
What Hacker News says?
I'm not too familiar with it myself, but if I had to hazard a guess it's because setting an element to display:fixed breaks it out into its own root stacking context[0], and browser zoom affects every stacking context[1]. Would love to hear from someone who's actually familiar with what's going on though. [0] http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/09/Stacking-Changes-Comin... [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs…
Comment linking /2012/09/Stacking-Changes-Coming-to-position-fixed-elements
on “Tota11y”Submitted 300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android as a story · 309 points
HN discussionNote that Android no longer applies the 300ms delay regardless of viewport scalability. http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-a... There are a number of plugins to remove the 300ms delay from other touch browsers. Here's one: https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick
Comment linking /2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-away
on “Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework”Submitted Chrome introduces Web App install banners as a story · 173 points
HN discussionYou can now transfer typed array data using the newest postMessage API. http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/12/Transferable-Objects-L...
Comment linking /2011/12/Transferable-Objects-Lightning-Fast
on “First Impressions Using React Native”Submitted Get on the CSS Grid as a story · 91 points
HN discussionFor people who are not familiar with Devtools "A Re-introduction to the Chrome Developer Tools" by Paul Irish http://paulirish.com/2011/a-re-introduction-to-the-chrome-de... "7 MINUTE VIDEOS: JAVASCRIPT CONSOLE PROTIPS & NEWISH DOM APIS" by Paul Irish http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/09/7-minute-videos-Javasc...
Comment linking /2011/09/7-minute-videos-Javascript-Console-Protips-newish-DOM-APIs
on “Chrome DevTools could do that?”Submitted Push Notifications on the Open Web as a story · 19 points
HN discussionapparently there's also hints of alpha channel, but basically no support for it outside of chrome's experimental flags: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/07/Alpha-transparency-in-...
Comment linking /2013/07/Alpha-transparency-in-Chrome-video
on “High quality GIF with FFmpeg”Submitted Writing a flippable book using CSS Regions and 3D transforms as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe pointer lock API should be in Chrome and FF. http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/02/Pointer-Lock-API-Bring... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633602 https://developer.mozilla.org/en/API/Pointer_Lock_API
Comment linking /2012/02/Pointer-Lock-API-Brings-FPS-Games-to-the-Browser
on “JQuery knobs”Submitted Chrome now supports HTML spec's new download attribute to A elements. as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTo review, it would seem that while you have a blog post from ian hickson making a passive reference to deprecating smil. Indeed he followed up by removing the feature from the ACID3 test. But the damage was already done: evidence of actual standards activity and implementations from as recently as June 2014 show instead an active merging of css animation with svg animation into a single consistent model called "web…
Comment linking /2013/12/New-Web-Animations-engine-in-Blink-drives-CSS-Animations-Transitions
on “Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0”Submitted Big boost to DOM performance - WebKit's innerHTML is 240% faster as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCheck out this demo: http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/webaudio/createMediaSo... - article: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/02/HTML5-audio-and-the-We...
Comment linking /2012/02/HTML5-audio-and-the-Web-Audio-API-are-BFFs
on “Winamp 2 in HTML5”Submitted Pointer Lock API Brings FPS Games to the Browser as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAs far as I can figure out, on chrome it's just a web service -- and doesn't work on Debian Chromium as they stopped shipping google api keys (which makes sense, part of the point of using chromium over chrome is to have some measure of independence from google). Just thought I'd mention it here, in case anyone else were about to run off and try stuff like: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---…
Comment linking /2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---Introduction-to-the-Speech-Synthesis-API
on “Windows 93 in JavaScript”Submitted CSS Filter Effects Landing in WebKit as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is inaccurate. Nowadays, the 300ms goes already away if you set the meta viewport tag with width=device-width etc [1] [1] http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-a...
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on “Tired of Safari”Submitted Introduction to fetch() as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOne issue: when you change the input type from "date" to "text", you lose the common backend format that date input fields are supposed to have. With a normal date input element, input.value returns a date in the format "yyyy-mm-dd" regardless of the display format (in Chrome, at least), and the submitted POST/GET variables reflect the same format. With your date picker, I get values like "31+October%2C+2012". Is th…
Comment linking /2012/08/Quick-FAQs-on-input-type-date-in-Google-Chrome
on “Pickadate.js”Submitted Voice Driven Web Apps: Introduction to the Web Speech API as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIn my humble opinion the best solution for layouts is CSS is the CSS Grid Layout Module[1]. Both powerful and easy to grasp. Sadly, it works only in IE (from version number 10, I believe)[2], but others[3][4][5] are getting there. And, of course, there's a polyfill[6]. 1) http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/ - specification; 2) http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/hands-on-css3/han... - examples; 3) http://u…
Comment linking /2014/03/Get-on-the-CSS-Grid
on “Shadow DOM”Submitted Precision Touch for Precise Gestures as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSo, there is a cheap way to communicate between the DOM thread and web worker threads. It's called Transferable Objects. The technique involves postMessage()'ing a Typed Array's ArrayBuffer as your message payload. Rather than making a copy of the bytes in your sending thread's Typed Array, the byte buffer is "detached" from the sender's ArrayBuffer and "attached" to a new ArrayBuffer on the receiver thread. This al…
Comment linking /2011/12/Transferable-Objects-Lightning-Fast
on “Statements about the Mobile Web”Submitted WebRTC hits Firefox, Android and iOS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionChrome for Android has a feature where if you visit the same site a few times in a two week period (or some sort of heuristic like that), the site can have it prompt you to add it to your homescreen: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/03/increasing-engagement-...
Comment linking /2015/03/increasing-engagement-with-app-install-banners-in-chrome-for-android
on “Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps”Submitted Live Web Audio Input Enabled as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> That's just a stupid choice made by (so many) web developers. Sometimes it's stupid, sometimes not. Disabling zoom removes the 300ms delay added to most interactions on mobile devices [1]. You can alternatively use fastclick.js [2] or swiftclick.js [3], but that's an extra lib/http request to load. [1] http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-a... [2] https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick [3] https…
Comment linking /2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-away
on “Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’”Submitted Position: sticky lands in webkit as a story · 4 points
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