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Google Chrome Frame was a plug-in designed for Internet Explorer based on the open-source Chromium project, first announced on September 22, 2009. [1] It went stable in September 2010, on the first birthday of the project. [ 2 ]
Facebook launched the Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007, providing a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features. [1] [2] A markup language called Facebook Markup Language was introduced simultaneously; it is used to customize the "look and feel" of applications that developers create.
WebM is an audiovisual media file format. [5] It is primarily intended to offer a royalty-free alternative to use in the HTML video and the HTML audio elements. It has a sister project, WebP, for images.
Browser plug-ins are a different type of module and no longer supported by the major browsers. [2] [3] One difference is that extensions are distributed as source code, while plug-ins are executables (i.e. object code). [2] The most popular browser, Google Chrome, [4] has over 100,000 extensions available [5] but stopped supporting plug-ins in ...
An alternative to the npm package manager, Yarn was created as a collaboration of Facebook (now Meta), Exponent (now Expo.dev), Google, and Tilde (the company behind Ember.js) to solve consistency, security, and performance problems with large codebases.
In 2015, designer Frances Berriman and Google Chrome engineer Alex Russell coined the term "progressive web apps" [14] to describe apps taking advantage of new features supported by modern browsers, including service workers and web app manifests, that let users upgrade web apps to progressive web applications in their native operating system (OS).
In June 2019, Chrome 75 was released with WebAssembly threads enabled by default. [ 30 ] Since April 2022, [update] WebAssembly 2.0 has been in draft status, [ 31 ] [ 32 ] which added many SIMD -related instructions and a new v128 datatype, with the ability for functions to return multiple values, and mass memory initialize/copy.
NoScript can force the browser to always use HTTPS when establishing connections to some sensitive sites, in order to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. This behavior can be triggered either by the websites themselves, by sending the Strict Transport Security header, or configured by users for those websites that don't support Strict Transport Security yet.