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We’ve spent the past two weeks asking people around the world to think about our four refined design directions for the Mozilla brand identity. The results are in and the ...
Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web
An algorithm we’ve depended on for most of the life of the Internet — SHA-1 — is aging, due to both mathematical and technological advances. Digital signatures incorporating the SHA-1 ...
The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development
OpenJS promotes the widespread adoption and continued development of key JavaScript solutions worldwide.
Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet (2001)
Linguistic, Political, and Technical Limitations.
Introducing NodeJS-Dashboard
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda
Brett Andrews Software Development Engineer Amazon API Gateway recently released three new features that simplify the process of forwarding HTTP requests to your integration endpoint: greedy path variables, the ANY method, and proxy integration types. With this new functionality, it becomes incredibly easy to run HTTP…
Fall cleaning: Optimizing V8 memory consumption
The V8 team analyzed and significantly reduced the memory footprint of several websites that were identified as representative of modern web development patterns.
Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS
Nexedi is willing to help improving HTML5 support in the iOS platform. To achieve this we are launching a lawsuit against Apple so that developers of Web browsers with better HTML5 support than Apple's Webkit can publish their applications on Apple Appstore.
Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community
We're introducing Marketplace, a convenient destination on Facebook to discover, buy and sell items with people in your community.
Vue 2.0 is here
Today I am thrilled to announce the official release of Vue.js 2.0: Ghost in the Shell. After 8 alphas, 8 betas and 8 rcs (a total…
Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
Today marks the final release of Leaflet 1.0. It’s a culmination of several years of work by dozens of contributors from all over the world. This is the fastest, most stable and polished Leaflet release ever.
Firefox 49 fixes sites designed with WebKit in mind, and more
Several recent articles on the Hacks blog explain why web developers should care about cross-browser compatibility and how great web developers achieve it. Web developers have a critical role in ...
Search Results are officially AMP’d
Now when you search on your mobile device, you’ll see a label that indicates which sites have pages that are ready to load lightning fast.
Static Website Generators
A list of the top ten static generators for building your next website
Gmail will now support CSS media queries
When you send emails, your recipients might read them on a computer, tablet, or phone—or more likely, all three. However your message might look different on all these devices. Later this month, you’ll be able to use CSS media queries with Gmail and Inbox by Gmail to ensure that your message is formatted the way you…
Introducing the Firefox debugger.html
debugger.html is a modern JavaScript debugger from Mozilla, built as a web application with React and Redux. This project was started early this year in an effort to replace the ...
FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction
FlyWeb is an experimental project we’ve been prototyping from within the depths of Mozilla’s platform division. It started as a side-project late last year, and since then a small, ad-hoc ...
Channels adopted as an official Django project
Posted by Andrew Godwin on Sept. 9, 2016
V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.4
V8 v5.4 comes with performance improvements and reduced memory consumption.
Moving Towards a More Secure Web
To help users browse the web safely, Chrome indicates connection security with an icon in the address bar. Historically, Chrome has not exp...
Google and Box Announce Partnership
Posted by Nan Boden, Head of Global Technology Partners Today, we announced a partnership with Box to power collaboration and productiv...