SnapFrom Team
Everything on this site is written by working web developers, about the part of the web they spend their days inside: how a page is assembled and delivered, how media is encoded on the way, and what the code running in a browser can see while all of that happens.
How we write
- Claims carry sources. Every statement about what a platform, browser or specification does cites that vendor's own documentation, with a line naming the specific claim the source supports. We do not cite blogs summarising a primary source, and we never cite our own properties as evidence for a fact.
- Costs are named. An article that describes a technique also says what it degrades, what it exposes, and when a vendor change will stop it working.
- Ownership is disclosed in the article. Where a page mentions something we own or used to own, it says so there, not in a policy page. Old disclosures become dated historical notes rather than being deleted.
- No AI-generated images. Typography cards, diagrams and real screenshots only.
Contact
Corrections, copyright notices and anything else: contact@snapfrom.net. If we get a fact wrong we will correct it in the article and date the correction.
Articles
- The Header That Carries Your Dark Mode ·
- What Replaced the User-Agent String ·
- The Request That Describes Your Device ·
- The Page You Never Opened Has Already Loaded ·
- Not All Bytes Cost the Same ·
- The Codec Your Browser Picked, and Why It Was Not Your Choice ·
- What an Embedded Third-Party Script Actually Gets ·
- What Actually Happens to a Video Before You See It ·
- What a Page Knows About You Before You Click Anything ·