Google: HTTPS Traffic Is Increasing
For some time, Google has been encouraging website owners to enable the more secure HTTPS by default instead of HTTP. Those efforts appear to be paying off, as Google has revealed that 64 percent of...
View ArticleWeWork Buys Flatiron School
Co-working company WeWork has announced that it has purchased coding bootcamp Flatiron School. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It is unclear why WeWork, which primarily provides office space to...
View ArticleMozilla Discontinues Firebug
Mozilla is discontinuing development and support for its Firebug debugger tool and instead is encouraging Web developers to use Firefox developer tools. Firebug was a Firefox extension that allow...
View ArticleMicrosoft Sonar Tests Websites for Performance Issues
As promised last June, Microsoft has released a Website testing tool called Sonar under an open source license. Developed by the team that works on the Edge browser, Sonar can find interoperability,...
View ArticleJS Foundation to Manage Marko
Marko, an eBay-created open source JavaScript user interface library designed to streamline Web development, is moving to the JS Foundation. “eBay has been a longtime core contributor to open source...
View ArticleAI Solves CAPTCHA Tests
Many websites use CAPTCHA challenges to weed out bots from human visitors and prevent spam in comments and feeds. However, as the vision capabilities of artificial intelligence improve, the days of...
View ArticleGoogle Now Ignores Its Country Domain When Returning Search Results
Google is changing the way it localizes search results. In the past, Google has used top-level domains to determine which results to show users. For example, if you went to Google.co.uk and searched...
View ArticleWeb Content Management Systems Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrency
Security researchers from Sucuri are warning that criminals are attempting to hack Web content management systems to run Coinhive scripts. Those scripts hijack the CPUs of site visitors to mine a...
View ArticleCriminals Pay More for Code Signing Certificates Than for Guns or Passports
Digital code signing certificates are more valuable on the dark web than many other illegally traded goods, like credit card numbers, fake passports or handguns. Researchers from Venafi said these...
View ArticleHow to Use the HTML a Tag
In this HTML web development tutorial and HTML reference sheet, you will learn how to use the HTML <a> tag, complete with code examples demonstrating how to work with hyperlinks in your web...
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