InfoQ - Web Browser

Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development

Daniel Curtis — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:03:00 GMT

jQuery, created by John Resig and released in 2006, is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax. It enabled easier web development by providing an accessible API across browsers. While its use has declined with the rise of modern frameworks, jQuery remains prevalent on a significant portion of websites today.

By Daniel Curtis

Presentation: Running AI at the Edge: Running Real Workloads Directly in the Browser

James Hall — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

James Hall discusses the strategic and technical imperative of moving AI workloads from cloud providers to local edge devices. He shares practical approaches using WebGPU, Transformers.js, and DuckDB to achieve near-native performance in JavaScript. Through real-world case studies, he explains how to minimize data privacy risks, optimize browser inference, and build rigorous evaluation suites.

By James Hall

Audio Fingerprinting Discovered on Alibaba Websites While Debugging BLE Multipoint Disconnects

Olimpiu Pop — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:07:00 GMT

A recent discovery revealed that AliExpress employs silent audio streams for device fingerprinting, leveraging the Web Audio API. This technique involves analyzing hardware-specific audio processing to distinguish user devices. Privacy-focused browsers have developed countermeasures, highlighting a security gap in current web standards regarding audio context initialization and user privacy.

By Olimpiu Pop