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Turn an animated GIF into a / Stoyan's phpied.com
| | daringfireball.net
Daring Fireball: Why the HTML5 'Video' Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in Browsers Which Support It
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| | [AI summary] The article discusses the challenges and limitations of using the HTML5 <video> element for embedding video on the web, highlighting issues with automatic buffering in browsers like Safari and Chrome, and the need for workarounds such as JavaScript to achieve click-to-load functionality.
| | www.sethvargo.com
Focus the address bar with command (?) + L | Seth Vargo
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| | The keyboard shortcut for focusing the address bar in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox is all the same, but finding the keyboard shortcut to focus the address bar is often difficult. In this blog post, I demonstrate the keyboard shortcut to focus the address bar in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on Mac OS X and Windows.
| | adim.in
TIL: Webkit supports videos in tags | ~/adi
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| | I just published a post with gifs and videos and was pretty happy with how it was looking. A few minutes later, a friend messaged me: I use Orion, which is a Webkit-based browser (like Safari). I know my friend uses Brave, a Chromium-based browser. Why were these videos rendering fine in Webkit and not Chromium? This blog is powered by Hugo, and the posts written as Markdown. In that blog post, I had attached the videos using the markdown image syntax
| | siderite.dev
Running npm start without opening browser
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| You want to open the server for an application you are working on in Visual Studio Code and not have a browser open automatically. Or perhaps your default is Internet Explorer and you want to open Chrome instead. Use the environment variable BROWSER and set it to "none" or "chrome".