tl;dr; Browsers doesn’t handle webcam permissions well enough. Users should be extremely wary about what’s going on in their browser. From a list of 30 bugs submitted to google regarding that issue, most have been fixed, but some are still alive. The most obvious bug which is »
tl;dr; The concept of session memory is not valid anymore in today’s browsers. Even sessionStorage is not cleared after closing the tab. It’s easily revived when clicking on “Reopen closed tab”. That might seem as a bug – not if you look at the spec which is rather »
[Update: Some of these examples were mitigated in Chrome 38 and 39] After seeing in the previous post how Data-URIs can be used as a mechanism to easily carry malicious code, I’ll elaborate more about the issues it presents. Some of it merely exists from the way Data-URIs are »
Prologue: I’ve written most of this post some months ago and somehow didn’t publish it. Looking at it now, it’s a good reminder of some of the pains I already forgotten. The Android version statistics already changed a bit by now, but, still today and even with »
Less than a year ago it seemed like HTML5 was going strong. With Facebook and Linkedin adopting the technology to reach most of the screens on the mobile and on the desktop. Linkedin had the better hybrid mobile app (HTML5 + native) and published a series of videos and articles about »