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Web typography for non-designers
Although a lot of today’s web content is highly interactive and image-based, language–and thus words–is still the basic means of expression on almost every single web page.
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Django 1.8 beta 1 released
Posted by Tim Graham on Feb. 25, 2015
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Tired of Safari
Yesterday, in reaction to pointer events becoming a W3C recommendation, Tim Kadlec published an important piece about Apple’s huge influence on the mobile web.
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Firefox 36.0 released
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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The Emterpreter: Run asm.js code before it can be parsed
I'm excited to announce a new Mozilla Research experiment: the Emterpreter, a pure-JavaScript interpreter that can start running large Emscripten-compiled apps faster than JavaScript engines can, giving developers control over ...
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Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture
If you’re like me and you wanted to go further with React, you more than likely would’ve checked out Flux , had a glance, closed the tab and then reassessed…
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React Tips and Best Practices
I've spent a good deal of the past year working with React. I've written, refactored, and re-written many components in that time, and I've seen some best practices and anti-patterns emerge. I'm not going to get into what React is...
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Comodo ships Adware Privdog worse than Superfish
This blog is written by Hanno Böck. Unless noted otherwise, its content is licensed as CC0 .
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ECMAScript 6
An overview of some of the most interesting features of ECMAScript 6, the latest version of the JavaScript specification.
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Exploiting the Superfish certificate
As discussed in my previous blogpost, it took about 3 hours to reverse engineer the Lenovo/Superfish certificate and crack the password. In...
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Extracting the SuperFish certificate
I extracted the certificate from the SuperFish adware and cracked the password (" komodia ") that encrypted it. I discuss how down below. T...
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HTTP/2 Approved
After more than two years of discussion, over 200 design issues, 17 drafts, and 30 implementations, the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications have now been approved by the IETF’s steering group for publication as standards-track RFCs.
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What does “asm.js optimizations” mean?
The Microsoft Chakra team has announced on the IE blog that asm.js optimizations are In Development . We at Mozilla are very excited for IE to join Firefox in providing predictable, top-tier performance on asm.js code and from my discussions with the Chakra team, I expect this will be the case.
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HTTP/2 Is Done
The IESG has formally approved the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications, and they’re on their way to the RFC Editor, where they’ll soon be assigned RFC numbers, go through some editorial processes, and be published.
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Routing on OpenStreetMap.org
Good news for OpenStreetMap: the main website now has A-to-B routing (directions) built in to the homepage! This will be huge for the OSM project. Kudos to Richard Fairhurst and everyone who helped get this up and running.
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Invisible Click Tracking Using “Empty” UTF-8 Characters
Have a look at this URL linking to this post: https://kaspars.net/blog/invisible-click-tracking Notice any tracking variables? Me neither! But check out the HTTP request and response in the network inspector of your browser -- it is redirecting to the "same" URL: URL encoded special characters in the browser console…
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60fps on the mobile web
Flipboard launched during the dawn of the smartphone and tablet as a mobile-first experience, allowing us to rethink content layout principles from the web for a more elegant user experience on a variety of touchscreen form factors.
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The “Web Application” Myth
The last few weeks were full of lots of great articles about an old topic: should things on the internet be dependent on JavaScript and…
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In search of the perfect JavaScript framework
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters
Last week, Google announced that its Youtube service would default to using HTML5 video instead of Flash. Once upon a time, this would have been cause for celebration: after all, Flash is a proprietary technology owned by one company, a frequent source of critical vulnerabilities that expose...
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Introducing node-firefox
NOTE: we presented this project last Sunday at FOSDEM, but not everyone could make it to Brussels, so here's a post explaining what node-firefox is and how can it help ...