A new Chrome extension which stops the HTML “ping” attribute from tracking your browsing activity.
Pingkiller
A new Chrome extension which stops the HTML “ping” attribute from tracking your browsing activity.
Blink Blink Blink
I wrote an article for the New Yorker about the evolution of web browsers, the impending demise of , and Google Chrome’s new HTML rendering engine.
Chrome’s recent move to Blink undercuts the primary olive branch it promised to Web developers upon Chrome’s release in 2008; those developers now need to test their Web sites in an additional rendering engine. But there is an argument in favor of the change: WebKit is now very widely used, especially in mobile devices, in much the same way that Internet Explorer 6 dominated the market and brought a near-halt to real innovation in the look and feel of the Web a decade ago.
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