meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Browsers, Engines, Support and the Other Guys

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the various web browers that might show up in your analytics and whether you need to worry about supporting them or not. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. MagicBell - Sponsor MagicBell is the The notification inbox for your product. Add a MagicBell to your product for announcements, billing, workflow, and other notifications. The free plan supports up to 100 Monthly Active Users - use the coupon code SYNTAXFM for 10% off the first 12 months. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:19 Sponsor: Sentry 02:29 Sponsor: MagicBell 03:51 Big browsers and their engines 05:29 Cloaked browsers 08:16 What’s so great about Arc? Arc 11:33 JavaScript engines 13:30 iOS Browsers Open Web Advocacy 15:07 Android browsers 18:04 The rest of the browsers 19:24 Tor browser 20:20 Opera mini 22:48 UC browser 23:42 Opera mobile 24:57 KaiOS 26:26 Ringtone memories Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with

0:07.0

JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!

0:12.0

Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development

0:17.0

treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!

0:24.0

Tolinsky!

0:27.0

Welcome to Syntax! In this Monday, hasty treat, we're going to be talking about

0:33.0

browsers, the client, the thing that we use to browse the internet with. My name is

0:38.0

Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado, and with me, as always, is

0:42.0

Wes Boss.

0:43.0

Hey, I'm excited. We initially called this one the browsers, the other guys.

0:47.0

And as I was writing the notes, I was like, maybe we should just change this to

0:52.0

being like talking about the engines behind the browsers, like what is V8, what is

0:57.0

Gecko, what is Blink, what is Chromium, and then talk about like those other, you know,

1:02.0

when you go to like, can I use? And there's like, there's list of like 15 different

1:07.0

browsers. You're like, I've actually never heard of that browser. So we're going to

1:11.0

go through those and be like, would you have to worry about those or not?

1:14.0

Yeah, that's a good point. This episode is sponsored by two amazing company

1:19.0

Sentry and Magic Bell. Sentry is the perfect place to see all of your errors and

1:23.0

exceptions happen in just a wonderful interface, but also just a wonderful way to

1:28.0

track how your application or your website or really any web service that you have

1:33.0

going is working at any given point. This is a service that I've been personally

1:37.0

using for long before since syntax started even. And I gotta say it's one of my

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wes Bos, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wes Bos and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.