Ask HN: How do you follow news about browsers?

#1

Post by khebbie » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 2:38 PM UTC

The browser world is moving forward very fast it is hard to keep tap on what is going on. For instance I missed this: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/07/referrer-p...

Does some kind of site exists that gathers news about browser updates exist?

Re: Ask HN: How do you follow news about browsers?

#2

Post by Jugurtha » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 3:03 PM UTC

Not specific to browsers, but subscribing to RSS feeds of tools I use/depend on has been very useful.

On GitHub, for example, you can append "/releases.atom" to repository URLs and subscribe to that in your email client.

Re: Ask HN: How do you follow news about browsers?

#3

Post by brundolf » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 3:37 PM UTC

https://css-tricks.com/ is one of the best sources I know of for new and/or obscure stuff in the Web world, including browsers, frameworks, etc. Despite the name it isn't just CSS.

Re: Ask HN: How do you follow news about browsers?

#4

Post by nitrohorse » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 3:51 PM UTC

Jugurtha wrote: post #2

Not specific to browsers, but subscribing to RSS feeds of tools I use/depend on has been very useful. On GitHub, for example, you can append "/releases.atom" to repository URLs and subscribe to that in your email client.

Yeah, and specific to the site OP linked, here’s the RSS feed:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/atom.xml

Re: Ask HN: How do you follow news about browsers?

#5

Post by ivank » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 3:53 PM UTC

https://chromestatus.com

https://webkit.org/blog/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...

Re: Ask HN: How do you follow news about browsers?

#6

Post by petercooper » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

We attempt to do this (as well as the main specs, independent of browser) with our Frontend Focus publication: https://frontendfoc.us/ – however, you can follow each of the key browsers (especially as there are so few of them now!) directly on Twitter or via blogs as ivank has linked here.