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Brave and DuckDuckGo Now Let You Block Google’s Tracking on Articles

The two privacy-focused companies announced separate initiatives meant to undercut AMP, the tech giant's mobile page protocol.

How to Create Your Own Wordle

Building a browser game that captivates a nation isn't as difficult as it might seem.

Adobe Flash Is Actually Going to Die This Time, For Real

Three years ago, long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash would reach its end-of-life. Now we know: Adobe Flash is going to officially die on December 31, 2020. While younger folks should be…

The HTML Rube Goldberg Machine Is a Vortex You Can’t Escape

Every web developer take note: Sebastian Ly Serena has come up with a brilliant way to make your website more entertaining and captivating—without clogging it up with boring content. Just turn it into a HTML-based Rube Goldberg machine and watch the clicks roll in. Using self-filling forms, checkboxes, buttons, and other auto-triggering HTML tricks is…

The Code For This Pleasingly Simple Game Fits in a Single Tweet

If you’ve got a few spare minutes, you might enjoy a quick game of Tiny-Twitch. But then you’ll no doubt end up amazed by the fact that the source code for the whole thing can fit inside a single tweet. Developed by Alex Yoder, the game—which requires you to try and click the X that…

Winamp 2 Has Been Immortalized in HTML5 For Your Pleasure

Winamp disappeared into obscurity, died, then came back to life. But with such a turbulent history, it pays to make sure that the iconic piece of software lives on. Good job a working version of it’s been immortalized in HMTL5, then. Yup. Put together by Jordan Eldredge in HTML5 and Javascript, this is a working…

CSS Is 20 Years Old Today

Two decades ago, Opera’s Chief Technical Officer, Håkon Wium Lie, published a document that would change web design forever. It was called Cascading HTML style sheets – a proposal. These days, cascading style sheets lie at the heart of web design, making HMTL and XML come to life. To the uninitiated, these humble files are…

New HTML Is About To Make Your Phone Way Better at Using the Internet

Underneath every picture of a dog in a beekeeping suitand ice-bucket challenge videoyou see on the internet, there’s a complex framework of code. Soon, that framework will get a tiny tune-up that will make surfing the web on your phone faster than it’s ever been. When the internet on your phone gets laggy, the culprit…

Microsoft’s First Website From 1994 Looks Delightfully Ancient Today

In 1994, there were just a few thousand websites on the internet. HTML was still new, and the concept of web publishing was still embryonic. It was the year that Microsoft launched its own website—and today, to celebrate its 20th anniversary on the web, the companydug that old website up and put it back online.…

Awesome Guy Re-Created the Star Wars Opening Crawl with HTML and CSS

Here’s something completely awesome on a day that needs more awesome. Tim Pietrusky recreated the famous opening crawl of Star Wars from 1977 using HTML, CSS and JavaScript because he couldn’t find a web version of it. Even better, the code is all up on Codepen.io and Pietrusky detailed his process on his website for…

Firefox 23 has finally axed support for the “blink” HTML tag, joining the likes of Chrome, Safari and Opera. Bye bye, blink text, we’ll miss you. Kinda.

Humorous HTML Greeting Cards Are the Route to Any Geek’s Heart

If there’s a way to any geek’s heart, it’s through a dubious HTML-based joke—which is why these greeting cards are the perfect way to tell your loved ones exactly what you’re thinking. Put together by Athens-based designer Costas Papaconstantinou, these Coding Cards use strong colors and bold fonts to spell out their geeky messages. They…

This Subway Map Is Not an Image, Just Pure Code

This version of London’s iconic tube map looks just like the official PDF of the transport network—but in fact it is created entirely from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. That’s a pretty insane feat. Its creator, freelance web developer John Galantini, has recreated every symbol, line, circle and piece of text using HTML and CSS. Each…

Google’s new “Save to Drive” feature is a script you can embed into your webpage that allows readers to instantly save a file—PDFs, images, what have you—to Google Drive with the click of a button. You can go check it out on Google’s blog.

This Is the Most Beautiful Way to Learn How to Code

These days, the sentiment of anyone who doesn’t know how to code being destined to a life of homeless ineptitude has become a fairly common (if mildly exaggerated) one. But of all the ways out there to save yourself from a derelict fate, Jon Duckett’s HTML and CSS: Design and Buil Websites, is, perhaps, the…

The Humble Origins of the HTML Blink Tag

Lou Montulli was one of the first people to work on the Netscape web browser, which gave birth to many of the venerable (and likely deprecated) web standards some of us grew up with. And if not for him, the much despised (or maybe loved) HTML Blink tag may never have existed. This is his…

Build Websites Without Having Any Coding Knowledge, With Adobe Muse

Adobe has a new Muse—graphic designers. While “Muse” is just a working title, the beta of the graphic design software has gone live which lets users work around the fact they don’t know a scrap of code. This means they can publish HTML websites without actually writing any CSS3 or HTML5. Check out the free…

Embed a Message In an OK Go Music Video Using Chrome

We know that HTML 5 and stuff like Canvas, SVG, and WebGL is cool, but how cool are they? Cool enough to let you embed a message in a music video and have the band Ok Go dance it out for you. Just point Chrome to Google’s latest Chrome Experiment and follow the instructions. You…

Hexadecimal Color Clock Represents Time As A Color Value

If you’ve ever dabbled in HTML, you’d know about hexadecimal color codes—those base-16 numbers that mix red, green and blue to create a precise hue. This mesmerizing Colour Clock takes the current time, converts it into a hexadecimal value, and uses the ever-changing shade as its background color. A screensaver for Macs can be downloaded…

Transform Your WordPress to Match Gizmodo’s Redesign

Sahas Katta designed a hilariously awesome WordPress theme, aptly named Qawker, that mimics Gizmodo’s redesign. He didn’t even have to look at our code! If you want to move with the future of blogs, feel free to download. We won’t take offense* [Skatter Tech] *I speak for myself only though