8.2 Stable Release is out the Door

Daniel Appelquist 2018-12-21 Samsung Internet

8.2 Stable Release is out the Door “Eight (Explored)” by Nikos Koutoulas (CC BY 2.0) We’ve been testing and refining the 8.2 release of…

Ups and Downs of the Web 2018 (Unfiltered)

Daniel Appelquist 2018-12-21 Web Standards

Ups and Downs of the Web 2018 (Unfiltered) We do a lot of thinking about the web in the Samsung Internet developer advocacy team. And it’s…

Web Development on a Phone. Updated for Linux on DeX

Ada Rose Cannon 2018-12-06 Web Development

Last year I wrote about how you can use a phone for web development using an Android Linux Terminal and a simple editor I’d made as a…

The Economics of Empathy

Jo Franchetti 2018-12-06 Web Development

The Economics of Empathy All I need to be a software developer is coding skills, right?! A short while ago I sent out a tweet saying that in…

The “Secret” to DevTools for Mobile Web developers

Adil Aliyev 2018-11-29 Web Development

“Secret DevTools recipe” for Mobile Web developers The “Secret” to DevTools for Mobile Web developers A special guest post from Samsung…

Introducing Llama Vision, a website that detects llamas through your camera

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-11-01 Web Development

Introducing Llama Vision, a website that detects llamas through your camera a.k.a. How I got started using Tensorflow.js https://llama…

Creating a physical and immersive web mashup

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-10-25 Immersive Web

Creating a physical and immersive web mashup Why WebXR and Web Bluetooth make a great combo WebVR + Web Bluetooth demo running in a desktop…

👉 Are you accessible? 👈 — A Primer on Web Accessibility

Amy Dickens 2018-10-23 Web Development

👉 Are you accessible? 👈 — A Primer on Web Accessibility Accessibility of the world wide web hasn’t always been a number one priority for…

Happy Hacktoberfest from Samsung Internet🎃 👻 💻

Amy Dickens 2018-09-26 Communities

Happy Hacktoberfest from Samsung Internet🎃 👻 💻 Can you believe that it is nearly October already?! I know we’d all love time to slow down…

How to use WebDriver and ChromeDriver to automate Samsung Internet

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-09-13 Web Development

How to use WebDriver and ChromeDriver to automate Samsung Internet Good news! Since v8 of Samsung Internet, now available in Beta , it is…

Introducing News Push, the first of our news offerings

Ren Bitonio 2018-09-12 Browser Features

Introducing News Push, Be the First to Know News Push, Be the First to Know You can now receive news push notification via Samsung Internet…

Introducing Quick Suggest, your personal shopping assistant from Samsung Internet!

Mahesh Kulkarni 2018-09-12 Browser Features

Introducing Quick Suggest, your personal shopping assistant from Samsung Internet! As holiday shopping season is approaching fast, we are…

Samsung Internet 7.4 is stable — let’s check-out what’s new 🛒

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-09-12 Browser Features

Samsung Internet 7.4 is stable — let’s check-out what’s new 🛒 Featuring the improvements from the 7.4 Beta, including special news and…

Ethically Sourced Software at #EMF2018

Amy Dickens 2018-09-04 Web Development

Ethically Sourced Software at #EMF2018 Just over a week ago I rolled out the camping gear to join friends & colleagues at a Tech Festival in…

A Crisis of Permissions

Jo Franchetti 2018-09-04 Web Development

A Crisis of Permissions A Crisis of Permissions I ❤ the internet. By visiting a URL I can have access to information, learn new skills…

Hello Samsung Internet 8.2 Beta 👋

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-09-03 Browser Features

Hello Samsung Internet 8.2 Beta 👋 The next major version of Samsung’s browser for Android is now being released for beta testing “Eight…

Hello Samsung Internet — I’m Amy, Nice to Meet you 👋

Amy Dickens 2018-08-31 Web Development

Hello Samsung Internet — I’m Amy, Nice to Meet you 👋 This is my first week at Samsung; I’ve done my induction, been shown the fire exits…

All the Keynote talks from Samsung Create 2018

Damon Hernandez 2018-08-23 Web Development

All the Keynote talks from Samsung Create 2018 Starting off with our series of Create conference videos are the keynotes from the event…

Create, a web event from Samsung

Damon Hernandez 2018-07-31 Web Development

Create, a web event from Samsung con·nec·tion (kəˈnekSH(ə)n/) noun - a relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or…

Tweet My Wedding Dress

Jo Franchetti 2018-07-13 Web Development

Tweet My Wedding Dress Tweet My Wedding Dress Coming up on two years ago, I attended EMF Camp, ‘a non-profit UK camping festival for those…

Disappearing Frameworks

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-06-21 Web Development

Disappearing Frameworks How new web platform features and compile-time frameworks are establishing the next era of web development Credit…

Isomorphic ES Modules

Ada Rose Cannon 2018-06-15 Web Development

Isomorphic ES Modules Earlier I demonstrated how to build a Single Page App which shares templates with the Server Side Code. (See the video…

Samsung Internet v7.4 Beta is here!

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-06-05 Browser Features

Samsung Internet v7.4 Beta is here! Our latest Beta version of the Samsung Internet browser has now been released to the Play Store…

Protecting yourself from malicious web sites and advertising on the web

Daniel Appelquist 2018-05-30 Browser Features

Protecting yourself from malicious web sites and advertising on the web We take customer feedback seriously at Samsung Internet. So when we…

We’re helping out on MDN Web Docs — and you can too!

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-05-16 Web Development

We’re helping out on MDN Web Docs — and you can too! If you’re a web developer, you’re likely to be familiar with MDN Web Docs , “the…

Performance Testing Web Assembly vs JavaScript

Winston Chen 2018-05-02 Web Development

Performance Testing Web Assembly vs JavaScript An experiment with some surprising results Created by  @diekus The web just got a lot faster…

Web Payments update - new payment apps on their way — and more!

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-05-01 Web APIs

Web Payments update: new payment apps on their way — and more! Making online payments easier is good for customers — and good for businesses…

Leaving Samsung

Jungkee Song 2018-04-30 Communities

Leaving Samsung Editor’s Note: Jungkee Song has had such a large impact on what has become the Samsung Internet browser, and on the…

Help! someone has pointed out my conference has diversity issues!

Ada Rose Cannon 2018-04-16 Communities

“Help! someone has pointed out my conference has diversity issues! How do I fix this?” I get asked this question a lot. Often it is in…

Reducing the friction of online payments

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-03-28 Web APIs

Reducing the friction of online payments Why it might be a good time to consider alternatives to advertising — and how the latest web…

Promises, Promises

Jo Franchetti 2018-03-21 Web Development

Promises, Promises A short and sweet introduction to JavaScript promises and how they’re used in the Web Bluetooth API If you’ve not already…

WebVR Navigation in Samsung Internet for GearVR

Winston Chen 2018-03-20

WebVR Navigation in Samsung Internet for GearVR Being able to move from one site to another is a cornerstone of the Web. Samsung Internet…

New Samsung Internet Beta, Introduces Protected Browsing!

Ada Rose Cannon 2018-03-08 Browser Features

New Samsung Internet Beta, Introduces Protected Browsing! Samsung Internet 7.2 brings an engine upgrade and new UI features and better…

Creando un Componente Web simple para usar un mando

Diego González 2018-03-05 Web APIs

Creando un Componente Web simple para usar un mando Componentes Web 101 For the English version, click here . estados del componente…

Making a simple Gamepad Web Component

Diego González 2018-03-05 Web APIs

Making a simple Gamepad Web Component Web Components 101 Para la versión en español, presiona aquí . different states of the web…

WebXR for Social Good

Damon Hernandez 2018-02-28 Immersive Web

WebXR for Social Good Photo: © dizain Lately I have seen an increase in the use of immersive technologies, especially virtual reality, for…

Let’s connect with Samsung Internet v6.4 stable!

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-02-19 Browser Features

Let’s connect with Samsung Internet v6.4 stable! Featuring Web Bluetooth enabled by default, special local features and security updates…

DLNA comes to the latest version of Samsung Internet for Gear VR

Diego González 2018-02-12

DLNA comes to the latest version of Samsung Internet for Gear VR Version 5.6 makes it easy to stream your media to Samsung Internet for Gear…

How I built a game in a week

Ada Rose Cannon 2018-02-12 Web Development

How I built a game in a week I tried to make a game mostly using tools available on the web. Being so short on time I built it out of off…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Jo Franchetti 2018-02-02 Web APIs

Hedgehog Curling with WebBluetooth and WebVR We’ll just let this one slide… Purple Nugget # 2: Hedgehog Curling Inspired by the XKCD emoji…

Hacking Storms in Antigua with the UN

Daniel Appelquist 2018-01-30 Communities

Hacking Storms in Antigua with the UN Sometimes a seemingly strange opportunity comes your way and you just have to roll with it. Such was…

Lessons Learned, making our app with Web Components

Ada Rose Cannon 2018-01-23 PWA

Lessons Learned, making our app with Web Components This is a post exploring how we used web components to create a web app and a toolkit to…

Gamepad API para controlar partes de un SVG

Diego González 2018-01-17 Web APIs

Gamepad API para controlar partes de un SVG Tan fácil como mover los ojos… For the English version, refer here . Nugget # 1: La panda…

Gamepad API to control parts of an SVG

Diego González 2018-01-17 PWA

Gamepad API to control parts of an SVG As easy as rolling your eyes… Para la versión en español, ver aquí . Purple Nugget # 1: Angry Panda…

Perfectionism, anxiety and learning to be kind to yourself

Jo Franchetti 2018-01-11 Communities

Perfectionism, anxiety and learning to be kind to yourself “If an interviewer ever asks you what your weaknesses are, just tell them you’re…

Try our download improvements with Samsung Internet Beta v6.4

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2018-01-09 Browser Features

Try our download improvements with Samsung Internet Beta v6.4 Our latest Samsung Internet Beta v6.4 is now rolling out to the Play Store…

Interviews are fun (I promise!)

Jo Franchetti 2017-12-22 Communities

Interviews are fun (I promise!) I spoke about this topic at codebar Monthly December ’17 and many people asked me to blog about it, so…

VJ On The Go

Ruth John 2017-12-20 Web APIs

VJ On The Go The Story of a Seasonal Party App Foreword: I feel incredibly privileged to get an opportunity to work with Ruth. I have seen…

Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, declarative web APIs and truly serverless web endpoints

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-12-12 Web Development

Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, declarative web APIs and truly serverless web endpoints Here are a few of my favourite things you…

Ethics in (web) VR

uve 2017-12-01

Ethics in (web) VR VR content is becoming more accessible to build, with the help of tools such as A-Frame and Unity developers can create…

Web Audio en distintas plataformas

Diego González 2017-11-28 Web APIs

Web Audio en distintas plataformas Un vistazo a los distintos comportamientos del API de Web Audio For the english version: “ Web Audio on…

Updating our Diversity & Inclusion Statement

Daniel Appelquist 2017-11-27 Communities

Updating our Diversity & Inclusion Statement Today we are publishing an update to our statement on supporting diversity and inclusion in…

Common Responsive Layouts with CSS Grid (and some without!)

Jo Franchetti 2017-11-23 PWA

Common Responsive Layouts with CSS Grid (and some without!) Example code for you to try out, change and make your own CSS grid is now…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

uve 2017-11-07 Communities

Running an engaging workshop Last week I helped run a workshop on Progressive Web Apps with Jo Franchetti and Peter O’Shaughnessy . We…

The Voice-Powered Web - combining browsers with AI voice assistants

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-11-07 Browser Features

The Voice-Powered Web: combining browsers with AI voice assistants What if you could interact with the Web via voice assistants like Alexa…

NYC, if I can make WebVR here…

Damon Hernandez 2017-11-06 Communities

NYC, if I can make WebVR here… Like no other… Frank Sinatra sang, “If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere” when referring to New…

Public Speaking for Beginners

Jo Franchetti 2017-11-06 Communities

Public Speaking for Beginners Tips to get you through your first talk Speaking in public for the first time can be nerve-wracking, but that…

How to accept Samsung Pay on your website, using Web Payments

Winston Chen 2017-10-30 Web APIs

How to accept Samsung Pay on your website, using Web Payments Samsung Internet and Samsung Pay make a great team! Did you know that Samsung…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-10-30 Web Performance

Introducing our new Tracking Blocker, powered by Disconnect If you care about your privacy online, good news: we care about it at Samsung…

Samsung Internet v6.2 now Stable

Jo Franchetti 2017-10-30 Browser Features

Samsung Internet v6.2 now Stable! Coming soon to an Android 5+ device near you! With Night Mode, Tracking Blockers and all the great…

US users can get rewarded for simply using Samsung Internet!

Mahesh Kulkarni 2017-10-30 Browser Features

US users can get rewarded for simply using Samsung Internet! We are happy to announce that Samsung Rewards is coming to Samsung Internet…

Success with CSS

Jo Franchetti 2017-10-24 Web Development

Success with CSS Writing great CSS is an often overlooked and undervalued skill, especially when starting a project or hiring colleagues…

6 myths of Progressive Web Apps

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-10-11 PWA

6 myths of Progressive Web Apps Terms like “Progressive Web Apps” (PWAs) are useful to help spread concepts , but they come with a risk…

Smart Go Next

AJITH KUMAR V 2017-10-09 Browser Features

Smart Go Next Introducing a neat new browser feature that makes filling out forms easier Entering data is a frequent user action during web…

Announcing the W3C Workshop on WebVR Authoring

Diego González 2017-10-05

Announcing the W3C Workshop on WebVR Authoring Come discuss Opportunities and Challenges Brussels is the host city for this Workshop…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Diego González 2017-10-05 PWA

Ava: a WebVR Archaeological experience Collaboration between Samsung Internet, the University of Edinburgh and the Achavanich Beaker Burial…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-10-02

Not Just Games! New & Unusual Uses of Virtual Reality And how the Web can help… Games are doing great things for Virtual Reality, driving…

WebVR - Connecting People, Pandas and You

uve 2017-08-29 PWA

WebVR: Connecting People, Pandas and You On the 22nd of August 2017 myself and Diego gave a talk at JSMonthly about using WebVR to make…

Browsing for better battery life

YONGHA LEE 2017-08-25 Browser Features

Browsing for better battery life As many surveys have shown , the single most important feature for smartphone users is battery life…

Human Friendly Colours using HSL

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-08-24 Web Development

Human Friendly Colours using HSL (If you are already familiar with HSL jump to the end for some fun tips.) If you are a web developer you…

How to collect gender data

uve 2017-08-22 PWA

How to collect gender data So you are writing a form or building a website where you’re collecting data from your users, you want to add in…

Big news for our new Samsung Internet beta v6.2!

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-08-09 Browser Features

Big news for our new Samsung Internet beta v6.2! For the first time, Samsung Internet is becoming available for all Android L+ phones! Plus…

Speaking to the Web with the Web Speech API

Winston Chen 2017-08-07 PWA

Speaking to the Web with the Web Speech API What if you could interact with the web without using a keyboard, mouse or touch? Another way to…

Empowering Enterprise & International Developers - Unite Europe 2017

Damon Hernandez 2017-07-28 PWA

Empowering Enterprise & International Developers - Unite Europe 2017 So I recently returned from Unity’s Unite Europe 2017 event in…

How exclusive tech events can foster an inclusive tech community

uve 2017-07-28 Communities

How exclusive tech events can foster an inclusive tech community The modern tech scene has a stereotype. Many people don’t fall into it and…

A beginner’s guide to Service Workers

uve 2017-07-25 PWA

A beginner’s guide to Service Workers This guide is aimed at people who have some experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It covers the…

Here’s what you get for free with a Progressive Web App

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-07-24 PWA

Here’s what you get for free with a Progressive Web App Add to Home Screen banners, special icons, search engine placements and more… After…

Web Audio on different platforms

Diego González 2017-07-24 Web APIs

Web Audio on different platforms Taking a look at different behaviors of the Web Audio API Para la versión en español: “ Web Audio en…

Being fast and light - Using binary data to optimise libraries on the client and the server.

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-07-19 Web Performance

Being fast and light: Using binary data to optimise libraries on the client and the server. The Web has Native support for parsing and…

We now have a community-approved Progressive Web Apps logo!

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-07-19 PWA

We now have a community-approved Progressive Web Apps logo! Congratulations to our colleague Diego González and ❤️ to the PWA community! The…

Progressive Web Apps are a toolkit, not a recipe

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-07-18 PWA

Progressive Web Apps are a toolkit, not a recipe Update: OK, they are a recipe too, but hear me out… By Italian_Bicycles The term…

Eleven examples of how WebVR is being used today

uve 2017-07-13

Eleven examples of how WebVR is being used today Last week I got to speak at WebXR in Paris, a meetup focused around WebVR and WebAR. I…

Creating Inclusive Tech Communities

uve 2017-07-10 Communities

Creating Inclusive Tech Communities Diversity means nothing without inclusion. AnvilHack II — photo by MLH I’ve been organising events in my…

Using Google’s Blocks with A-Frame to make exciting scenes!

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-07-10 PWA

Using Google’s Blocks with A-Frame to make exciting scenes! Google has recently launched blocks, blocks is a user friendly tool for 3D…

Look Forward, Fashion Tech

Diego González 2017-07-05 IoT

Look Forward, Fashion Tech Samsung Internet makes WebVR fashionable Attendees experiencing the VR Tranquilitie dress in Paris The…

A beginner’s guide to making Progressive Web Apps

uve 2017-07-04 PWA

A beginner’s guide to making Progressive Web Apps You may have heard about Progressive Web Apps or PWAs for short, I’m not going to go into…

Because Browser Diversity Is Good For The Web

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-06-30 PWA

Because Browser Diversity Is Good For The Web Browser logos from github.com/alrra/browser-logos “Just ask Microsoft to stop working on Edge…

Web Communities - For the People

Daniel Appelquist 2017-06-28 Communities

Web Communities: For the People I’m a believer in the power of communities. I’ve had some first-hand experience of the positive effect of…

Preview - WebVR & Web Payments at FullStack 2017!

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-06-26 PWA

Preview: WebVR & Web Payments at FullStack 2017! FullStack , the JavaScript, Node and IoT conference, is returning to London next month…

Making my first WebVR game using A-Frame

uve 2017-06-12

Making my first WebVR game using A-Frame I thought it was about time to try my hand at WebVR. I’ve played with regular old VR before, but…

Augmented World Event 2017

Damon Hernandez 2017-06-08

Augmented World Event 2017 There are not many event series I can say I have attended since day one but the Augmented World Expo , formerly…

Bringing AR to the Web

Winston Chen 2017-06-07 Immersive Web

Bringing AR to the Web The day you can interact with the world through the web is a lot closer than you think. Today, QR codes are widely…

Writing software using a phone!

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-05-30 PWA

Writing software using a phone! Developing without a laptop: Living the dream. I was sat on my (long) train to work, just reached the…

Announcing Samsung Internet v5.4 stable!

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-05-17 Web Development

Announcing Samsung Internet v5.4 stable! Rolling out over the next few days, featuring DeX support, PWA ambient badging, Physical Web and…

Native form validation — part 3

Peter-Paul Koch 2017-05-16 Browser Features

Native form validation — part 3 In this third part of a three-part article we will conclude our study of native form validation in browsers…

Native form validation — part 2

Peter-Paul Koch 2017-05-09 Browser Features

Native form validation — part 2 In this second part of a three-part article we will continue our study of native form validation in browsers…

Progressing the Story of Progressive Web Apps

Daniel Appelquist 2017-05-08 PWA

Progressing the Story of Progressive Web Apps Jungkee Song and Dan Appelquist at last year’s PWA Dev Summit Last year, prior to my talk…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-05-03 Immersive Web

Virtual Hackathon Let’s make VR Together Let’s Build Virtual Reality in the Web One month left!! Perfect time to get started building your…

Native form validation — part 1

Peter-Paul Koch 2017-05-02 Web Development

Native form validation — part 1 After doing exhaustive research into modern CSS and JavaScript form validation, I present my conclusions…

Samsung DeX brings a new Dimension to the Mobile Web

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-05-02 Browser Features

Samsung DeX brings a new Dimension to the Mobile Web With the release of the popular S8 we are going to focus on one of its extra special…

Think you know the top web browsers?

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-04-13 Browser Features

Think you know the top web browsers? Our traditional idea of the top five browsers may be over-simplified, outdated and skewed. If you…

Desempacando el último Samsung Internet

Diego González 2017-04-11

Desempacando el último Samsung Internet Emocionado por el UNPACKED 2017 y el Galaxy S8? Nosotros también. Mira a las estrellas y quizás…

Staying safe online with Samsung Internet

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-04-11 PWA

Staying safe online with Samsung Internet How to use ad-blocking technology to ensure your privacy on the web The Samsung Internet Browser…

Unpacking the latest Samsung Internet

Diego González 2017-04-11 Browser Features

Unpacking the latest Samsung Internet Excited about UNPACKED 2017 and the Galaxy S8? So are we. Look into the stars and you might even see a…

In Los Angeles for IEEE VR and Las Vegas at UNLV

Diego González 2017-03-29

In Los Angeles for IEEE VR and Las Vegas at UNLV From Staines “Westside” to the USA West Coast Is that a Gear 360 in Santa Monica beach…

The Gamepad Reloaded

Diego González 2017-03-16 PWA

The Gamepad Reloaded Revision of Gamepad API support in Samsung Internet Beta 5.4 I ❤ Gamepad API A while ago Ada Rose Edwards and myself…

Bringing the real world to your browser with CloseBy

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-03-13 IoT

Bringing the real world to your browser with CloseBy Imagine you’re hurrying towards your bus stop in the pouring rain (not an unlikely…

Release of Samsung Internet Chrome Extension v2

Divjot Singh 2017-03-09 Browser Features

Release of Samsung Internet Chrome Extension v2 Update Oct 2017: Since the release of v2 (March 2017), we saw a 9.3x increase in our…

What does it mean to be an App?

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-03-08 PWA

What does it mean to be an App? Ambient Badging and Importance (or not?) of URLs We want your feedback. When building Samsung Internet we…

Samsung Internet Beta now available without sign up

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-03-07 Browser Features

Samsung Internet Beta now available without sign up Samsung Internet no Longer Samsung Exclusive! We have received many requests for Samsung…

Samsung Internet @ Mobile World Congress 2017

Diego González 2017-03-06

Samsung Internet @ Mobile World Congress 2017 iHola Barcelona! Samsung Internet booth at MWC Barcelona 2017 Mobile World Congress It’s been…

Toolbars, keyboards, and the viewports

Peter-Paul Koch 2017-02-22 Web Development

Toolbars, keyboards, and the viewports Not this kind of viewport ( public domain ) All mobile browsers have two viewports. The layout…

4 ways Virtual Reality can now step up and help the world

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-02-18

4 ways Virtual Reality can now step up and help the world For many, it feels as though we are increasingly living in an age of political…

Prototyping a VR web app with the world’s leading tourism company

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-02-17

Prototyping a VR web app with the world’s leading tourism company Interest in WebVR is growing! A design from the hackathon — copyright TUI…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Diego González 2017-02-07 Web Development

Mobile World Progress 2017 A gathering of developers to preview what’s coming to web technology MPW Barcelona 2017 TL;DR: Join us at MWP1…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2017-01-19 PWA

Beyond the Browser By Carlos - via  Flickr It’s 2017 — a decade on from the launch of the iPhone. What has become of the web, and what…

Introducing Disconnect for Samsung Internet

Mahesh Kulkarni 2017-01-19 Browser Features

Introducing Disconnect for Samsung Internet Starting from 4.0, Samsung Internet provides ability to write extensions to block contents on…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-01-19 Web Development

Updating the polyfill service. Samsung has a web browser. V5 of that web browser came out recently: Announcing Samsung Internet 5.0 As some…

HyperTextual Reality

Diego González 2017-01-17

HyperTextual Reality How the Web Democratizes VR The Samsung Internet team will participate in Virtual Reality Evolution 2017 . Join us the…

Making input type=date complicated

Peter-Paul Koch 2017-01-17 Web Development

Beyond the Browser By Carlos - via  Flickr It’s 2017 — a decade on from the launch of the iPhone. What has become of the web, and what…

Wow that was some night in VR!

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-01-12

Wow that was some night in VR! Last night I gave a talk on Virtual Reality in Virtual Reality at London Web Performance . LDNWebPerf is a…

LDNWebPerf Talk Notes

Ada Rose Cannon 2017-01-09 Web Performance

LDNWebPerf Talk Notes Introducing A-Frame The goal of this talk is to introduce the audience to making Virtual Reality for the web using A…

How to take payments on the web with the Payment Request API

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-12-23 PWA

How to take payments on the web with the Payment Request API A simple demo and how to get real Paying for things online can be a pain, can’t…

Samsung Internet’s QR code scanner: what’s the deal?

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-12-20 Browser Features

Samsung Internet’s QR code scanner: what’s the deal? Hey, remember QR codes? Those magical black and white squares that convey information…

Announcing Samsung Internet 5.0

Ada Rose Cannon 2016-12-16 Browser Features

Announcing Samsung Internet 5.0 As some of you may know we have been testing a public beta release for the next major version of Samsung…

Over The Air 2016 - reporting back

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-12-14 Web Development

Over The Air 2016: reporting back Heroic hacks, terrific talks and a fond farewell Last month we attended Over The Air , the developer…

Dentro de la Burbuja

Diego González 2016-12-13

dentro de la burbuja O cómo crear fácilmente experiencias inmersivas de fotos 360º en WebVR y PWAs Hace un par de semanas estaba de…

Inside the Bubble

Diego González 2016-12-12

inside the bubble Or how to easily create 360° immersive experiences with photos in WebVR and PWAs. A couple of weeks ago I was on vacations…

Yes, mobile VR \*is\* real VR

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-12-06

Yes, mobile VR * is * real VR In response to “VR Gets Real with WebVR” This line in a post about WebVR by Roland Dubois slightly got my…

Custom Tabs for Samsung Internet

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-12-05 Browser Features

Custom Tabs for Samsung Internet If you’re developing an Android app and want to launch some external web content, hopefully you’ll have…

Many Browsers, One Web

Diego González 2016-11-28 Web Development

many browsers, one web A few months ago I joined Samsung to work in a team that would advocate the web platform and advance the web as a…

muchos navegadores, una web

Diego González 2016-11-28 Web Development

muchos navegadores, una web Hace unos meses me incorporé a Samsung para trabajar en un equipo que promueve la plataforma web y ayuda a su…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Daniel Appelquist 2016-11-17 Web Development

Opening Up the Beta We’re often asked by developers if we can allow access to a Beta version of the Samsung Internet browser. This year…

W3C WebVR Workshop Follow Up

Ada Rose Cannon 2016-10-31

W3C WebVR Workshop Follow Up I just had the most intense two days of my life! 360 degree group photo of the participants! I attended the W…

Samsung Internet at MozFest!

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-10-31 Web Development

Samsung Internet at MozFest! Last weekend, London hosted the 7th annual Mozilla Festival , “the world’s leading festival for the open…

Ready. Set. Gamepad. \[Updated\]

Diego González 2016-10-26 Immersive Web

Ready. Set. Gamepad. [ Updated ] Gamepads are an essential part of gaming, and can provide another type of input device for your web…

Supporting Diversity at Tech Events

Daniel Appelquist 2016-10-18 Communities

Supporting Diversity at Tech Events As a speaker, as an event organizer, and as a person working in our industry, I’m concerned with…

Making VR fast and for everyone - What we can learn from The Web

Ada Rose Cannon 2016-10-14

Making VR fast and for everyone: What we can learn from The Web. Why VR is uniquely suited to the web and what we can learn from web…

Is “browser” still the right word?

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-10-13 PWA

Is “browser” still the right word? With the rise of progressive web app technologies, web browsers are more capable than ever. So much so…

A thought about VR beyond VR

Diego González 2016-10-10

A thought about VR beyond VR On the weekend of the 28th of September I attended the BEYOND Symposium for “Future Design Thinking” in…

BytesConf 2016 and spreading the word about PWAs

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-09-25 PWA

BytesConf 2016 and spreading the word about PWAs Last week I was fortunate enough to be one of the speakers at BytesConf , a mini…

WebVR, feasting in the round table

Diego González 2016-09-20

WebVR, feasting in the round table. Legend says that Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) were developed in order make our interactions with…

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-09-17

Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts tl;dr Check out the imageOptim web service for providing images Which download faster and are…

Highlights from Google’s Progressive Web Apps training in London

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-09-13 Web Development

Highlights from Google’s Progressive Web Apps training in London Last week, Google kindly invited Ada Rose Edwards and me to join them at…

How to make Sky Boxes from A-Frame Scenes

Ada Rose Cannon 2016-08-30

How to make Sky Boxes from A-Frame Scenes Bookmarklet to produce equirectangular images suitable for sky spheres from A-Frame scenes. This…

Things I learned making a Progressive Web App for “super selfies”

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-08-26 PWA

Things I learned making a Progressive Web App for “super selfies” Snapwat is a web app for emoji-fying and doodling on your selfies…

I made my first PR to A-Frame!

Ada Rose Cannon 2016-08-22 Immersive Web

I made my first PR to A-Frame! The final demo is here: https://samsunginternet.github.io/a-frame-demos/racer.html Recently I have been…

Talking about Virtual Reality in the web and A-Frame at Nineworlds Geekfest

Ada Rose Cannon 2016-08-15

Talking about Virtual Reality in the web and A-Frame at Nineworlds Geekfest I recently spoke at Nineworlds Geekfest 2016 . The nice thing…

Introducing Samsung Internet for developers

Peter O'Shaughnessy 2016-08-08 Web Development

Introducing Samsung Internet for developers Samsung Internet is the web browser that is pre-installed on Samsung Galaxy phones and phablets…

Iris Scanning Comes to the Web

Daniel Appelquist 2016-08-05 Browser Features

Iris Scanning Comes to the Web One of the differentiators of Samsung Internet compared to other mobile browsers is tighter integration into…

Samsung and the Polyfill Service

Ada Rose Cannon 2016-08-04 Web Development

Samsung and the Polyfill Service As a developer I love the polyfill service. Using it I have fixed old IE compatibility issues by adding a…

Launching Samsung Internet Dev Rel

Daniel Appelquist