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fromSitePoint Forums | Web Development & Design Community
4 weeks ago

Why My CSS Changes Don't Reflect Immediately? Common Reasons & Fixes

Browser cache - Sometimes the browser is still loading the old CSS file. A hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) usually fixes it. Wrong file linked - Double-check if your HTML is actually linked to the correct CSS file. Specificity issues - Another CSS rule might be overriding your changes.
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fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

The man who built the web wants to fix it

Tim Berners-Lee criticizes modern platforms for using addictive algorithms designed to maximize engagement through outrage and extreme content rather than meaningful debate.
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fromTheregister
4 weeks ago

Brilliant backups landed web developer in big trouble

A website migration oversight caused a two-year disconnect where office staff viewed outdated content due to hardcoded DNS settings, while the client only discovered the issue when accessing the site from the office.
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fromMozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
1 month ago

Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Firefox 148 introduces the standardized Sanitizer API, enabling developers to safely remove malicious HTML and JavaScript from user-generated content before inserting it into the DOM.
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fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Anthropic's Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks | TechCrunch

Anthropic discovered 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox using Claude Opus 4.6, with 14 classified as high-severity, most fixed in Firefox 148.
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fromwww.jqueryscript.net
4 weeks ago

Weekly Web Design & Development News: Collective #648

A curated weekly roundup of essential web development and design resources includes updated JavaScript/CSS libraries, AI tools, design assets, and emerging web technologies for 2026 projects.
fromwww.jqueryscript.net
1 month ago
Web development

Weekly Web Design & Development News: Collective #647

Week 11 2026 development roundup features OpenPencil AI design editor, Eldora UI components, muJS navigation library, pdfcraft browser PDF toolkit, GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, Navigation API baseline status, and updated Top 10 resource lists.
Web development
fromwww.jqueryscript.net
4 weeks ago

Weekly Web Design & Development News: Collective #648

A curated weekly roundup of essential web development and design resources includes updated JavaScript/CSS libraries, AI tools, design assets, and emerging web technologies for 2026 projects.
Software development
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Firefox finds a slew of new bugs with Claude's help

Approximately 10-15 percent of Firefox browser crashes result from bit flips caused by faulty hardware rather than software errors, affecting hundreds of thousands of users monthly.
Web development
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

Anthropic's Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in two weeks

Anthropic and Mozilla's AI-powered security testing identified 22 Firefox vulnerabilities, including 14 serious flaws, using Claude Opus 4.6 across nearly 6,000 C files.
Web design
fromUna
1 month ago

una.im | border-shape: the future of the non-rectangular web

border-shape is a new CSS primitive that defines custom shapes for element borders, allowing backgrounds, shadows, and outlines to follow the custom geometry unlike clip-path.
fromCSS-Tricks
1 month ago

An Exploit ... in CSS?! | CSS-Tricks

Google credits security researcher Shaheen Fazim with reporting the exploit to Google. The dude's LinkedIn says he's a professional bug hunter, and I'd say he deserves the highest possible bug bounty for finding something that a government agency is saying "in CSS in Google Chrome before 145.0.7632.75 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page."
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fromTheregister
1 month ago

Internet history is vanishing. Researchers want to save it

Preserve historical internet operational data to enable future analysis of network behavior, societal impact, and to prevent irreversible loss of critical measurements.
fromMedium
2 months ago

Clarity or Conformity? Rethinking the Rules of Content Design

In Andor, I got chills when Mon Mothma warns the senate of a chilling truth: When we let noise, conformity, or fear dominate, we lose sight of what matters. We risk allowing the loudest voices, often the safest, the most predictable, to drown out individuality, identity, and truth. To me, this line... This line echoes a growing tension I feel in content design.
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fromWIRED
1 month ago

Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible

Engineers removed the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, showing that human maintenance, not sharks or sabotage, explains subsea cable issues.
fromVerou
3 months ago

Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them? * Lea Verou

Dear JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention. No, this is not another rant about npm's security issues. Abstraction is the cornerstone of modern software engineering. Reusing logic and building higher-level solutions from lower-level building blocks is what makes all the technological wonders around us possible. Imagine if every time anyone wrote a calculator they also had to reinvent floating-point arithmetic and string encoding!
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fromFast Company
1 month ago

These plain-text websites will simplify your internet experience

Here's the sad truth about sports score apps: Most of them aren't all that interested in actually telling you the score. After all, where's the money in providing straightforward information like that? The modern sports score app has to do more. It must bombard you with banner ads and betting odds, implore you to create an account and opt into notifications, sell you some tickets, and show some videos to keep engagement up. The scores themselves are an afterthought.
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fromZDNET
2 months ago

Why the most private way to browse the web isn't incognito mode (but this instead)

Use the Tor Browser to achieve maximum web browsing privacy and security by routing traffic through the Onion network's layered encryption and relay nodes.
Privacy technologies
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Just the Browser Is just the beginning

Open protocols and free code are constrained by centralized rulemakers and data-harvesting; minimal, policy-respecting browsers and a Small Web can restore user autonomy.
fromZDNET
1 month ago

Half of all cyberattacks start in your browser: 10 essential tips for staying safe

Web browsers are among the top targets for today's cybercriminals, playing a role in nearly half of all security incidents, new research reveals. According to Palo Alto Networks' 2026 Global Incident Response report, an analysis of 750 major cyber incidents recorded last year across 50 countries found that, in total, 48% of cybercrime events involved browser activity. Individuals trying to connect to the web, including business employees, are exposed to cyberthreats on a daily basis.
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Web development
fromFrontendmasters
1 month ago

The Big Gotcha of Anchor Positioning

Anchor Positioning in CSS has significant limitations preventing elements from being positioned relative to others regardless of DOM placement, requiring careful consideration of element ordering and positioning values.
fromCSS-Tricks
1 month ago

Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You | CSS-Tricks

By how much? Well, that would depend on the value of the <length> argument provided. Thomas Walichiewicz, who proposed :near(), suggests that it works like this: button:near(3rem) { /* Pointer is within 3rem of the button */ } For those wondering, yes, we can use the Pythagorean theorem to measure the straight-line distance between two elements using JavaScript ("Euclidean distance" is the mathematical term), so I imagine that's what would be used behind the scenes here.
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fromTechRepublic
2 months ago

Can the Web Be Saved? Its Creator Thinks So

The World Wide Web has drifted from its original open, universal promise toward commercialization, manipulation, and control, and requires incentive changes to restore public good.
Web development
fromCSS-Tricks
1 month ago

The Different Ways to Select in CSS | CSS-Tricks

CSS pseudo-classes like :root, :scope, and the & selector provide different ways to target and style the root element, with :root offering higher specificity and :scope providing semantic clarity for global scope declarations.
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fromZDNET
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

How to change your DNS service on a Windows PC or Mac - and why you should

fromZDNET
1 month ago
Digital life

How to change your DNS service on a Windows PC or Mac - and why you should

fromZDNET
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

How to change your DNS service on a Windows PC or Mac - and why you should

fromZDNET
1 month ago
Digital life

How to change your DNS service on a Windows PC or Mac - and why you should

fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

It's not too late to fix it': internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a battle for the soul of the web'

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, his vision was clear: it would used by everyone, filled with everything and, crucially, it would be free. Today, the British computer scientist's creation is regularly used by 5.5 billion people and bears little resemblance to the democratic force for humanity he intended. In Australia to promote his book, This is for Everyone, Berners-Lee is reflecting on what his invention has become and how he and a community of collaborators can put the power of the web back into the hands of its users.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Larry Magid: Take control of your browser's bookmarks

Ever since Mosaic, the first web browser introduced in 1993, browsers have included bookmarking features that let users quickly return to favorite sites. Today, bookmarks are even more important, especially on PCs and Macs, where the browser has become the most frequently used software. It serves as the gateway to email, news, entertainment, video calls, shopping, banking and even word processing, graphic design, tax preparation and much more.
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Web development
fromHowbrowserswork
2 months ago

How Browsers Work

Browsers convert address-bar input into normalized URLs or search queries, resolve domain names to IPs, send HTTP requests with headers, and fetch resources to render pages.
Web development
fromCSS-Tricks
2 months ago

HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac | CSS-Tricks

Widespread adoption of variable fonts and persistent accessibility failures (poor color contrast, removed focus styles, missing image alt text) characterize the current web.
Web development
fromInfoQ
2 months ago

HTML Invoker Commands Achieve Baseline Support Across All Major Browsers

HTML Invoker Commands API enables declarative button controls (commandfor and command) for popovers and dialogs, reducing reliance on JavaScript and improving initial interactivity.
fromAlways Twisted
2 months ago

Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology

As a contracting front-end developer and Design Systems consultant, I don't always get to work on new things. Sometimes I work within codebases. Sometimes alongside them. Sometimes these codebases are years and years old. When you dive into these projects, you're not just reading code, you're excavating years of decisions, technological limitations, and creative workarounds from days gone by. Over the last decade, I've called this Front-End Archaeology.
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fromwww.jqueryscript.net
2 months ago

Weekly Web Design & Development News: Collective #640

Everything you need to know in development &amp; design this week, rounded up for you (Week 4, 2026). You'll find the most essential things right now: JavaScript &amp; CSS libraries, useful code snippets, crucial web dev news &amp; resources, curated AI tools, free design assets, and plenty of other good stuff we found! Highlights: 2026 Tech Stack Refresh! Dive into updated &quot;Top 10&quot; lists for Off-canvas menus, responsive dropdowns, fullscreen navs, and more to get your projects ready for the year ahead.
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