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The last few weeks I've been working on an interesting new idea, hacking out a prototype. The code is not really clean enough for public consumption yet, and a bunch of features are missing. However, its now at the stage where it can be demoed and evaluated. I think the best way to introduce it...
The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted traffic—and get away with it. Article 45 forbids browsers from...
Today, we are excited to announce the next phase of this with the launch of our new platform, Workers Unbound, without restrictive CPU limits in a private beta.
Check out "Whats New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 22!
At Shopify, we’re keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.
Browser plugins, especially Flash, have enabled some of our favorite experiences on the Web, including videos and interactive content. But plugins often introduce stability, performance, and security issues for browsers. ...
WebKit supports new API that makes it possible for web apps to create, open, read, and write files directly, or create directories and enumerate their contents.
We claimed Google Authorship like every SEO blog told us to. Then our search clicks dropped 90%. Here are the numbers and what really happened.
We’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low-quality content on Search.
Over the past few months the team at RethinkDB has been working on a project to make building modern, realtime apps dramatically easier. The upcoming features are the start of an exciting new database access model – instead of polling the database for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push…
A few days ago, Peter Gramantik from our research team found a very interesting backdoor on a compromised site. This backdoor didn’t rely on the…
In March of 2020, Firefox will remove support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.
On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out of an abundance of caution.
Vy, the largest transport provider in Norway, has been using Elm for the last couple of years. These are their experiences so far.
I was recently asked whether it was safe to store session tokens using Web Storage (sessionStorage/localStorage) instead of cookies. Upon googling this I found the top results nearly all assert that w
Introducing the MCP Apps Extension proposal (SEP-1865) to standardize interactive user interfaces in MCP, developed with the MCP-UI creators and maintainers from OpenAI and Anthropic.
To many Web developers, being good at CSS means you can take a visual mock-up and replicate it perfectly in code. You don't use tables, and you pride yourself on using as few images as possible. If you're really good, you use the latest and greatest techniques like media queries, transitions and tra
If you’ve seen Epic Games’ HTML5 port of ‘Epic Citadel’, you have no doubt been impressed by the amazing performance and level of detail. A lot of the code that ...
New technology and conventions have led to several new classes of usability problems in Web design.
CloudFlare recently rolled out a premium service called Railgun that's available to CloudFlare Business and Enterprise customers. Railgun is web optimization software that's designed to speed up the delivery of content that cannot be cached.
Next.js 9.3 introduces new static-site generation improvements, native support for SCSS, reduced bundle sizes, static 404 pages, and more!
Encryption for all GitHub Pages sites
Next.js 9.5 introduces Stable Incremental Static Regeneration, Custom Base Path, Redirects and Rewrites, Webpack 5 Beta, and more!
Authenticate and authorize your users with Supabase Auth
