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Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
To engage readers, build community, and strengthen journalism, Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform will be integrated across washingtonpost.com
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Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates
Posted by Devon O’Brien, Ryan Sleevi, Andrew Whalley, Chrome Security This post is a broader announcement of plans already finalized on t...
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Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs
Note: I just spoke at Coldfront 2017 about why I’m such a big proponent of the Web. What follows is essentially that talk as a blog post (I’ll add a link to the video once it is published).
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CSS in JavaScript is like replacing a broken screwdriver with your favorite hammer
There's a ton of interest these days in 'CSS in JS'. The premise is simple: CSS operates in a global namespace, which can result in undesirable side effects, spaghetti code, and extremely difficult to maintain codebases. JavaScript used to do this, and we fixed it by encapsulating everything in modules and using tools…
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Basecamp 3 for iOS: Hybrid Architecture
We’ve written quite a bit in the past about our approach to building hybrid mobile apps. Basecamp 3 represents the latest generation of this architecture, taking everything we’ve learned from previ…
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Web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers
My current "investment thesis" is that what we call web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers. When it comes to eking performance out of hand-authored JavaScript and accompanying runtime libraries, we've reached the point of diminishing returns.
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Mastercard Internet Gateway Service: Hashing Design Flaw
Last year I found a design error in the MD5 version of the hashing method used by Mastercard Internet Gateway Service. The flaw allows modification of transaction amount. They have awarded me with a bounty for reporting it. This year, they have switched to HMAC-SHA256, but this one also has a flaw
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I built something with A-Frame in two days
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to try out several WebVR experiences for the first time, and I was blown away by the possibilities. Using just a headset ...
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JSX in detail
JSX react in depth - an interactive tutorial
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Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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The Zen of Just Writing CSS
I would say this is the future, but we’re already doing it.
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Introduction to HTML Components
HTML Components (HTC), introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5, offers a powerful new way to author interactive Web pages. Using standard DHTML, JScript and CSS knowledge, you can define custom behaviors on elements using the “behavior” attribute. Let’s create a behavior for a simple kind of “image roll-over” effect. For…
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Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty
In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.
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Things Reacters do that Re-framers avoid
JavaScripters often complain about the complexity of React. But to ClojureScripters, React is very nice. What's the difference? In this article, we explore 6 mistakes Reacters make, including mutable state everywhere, Lifecycle Methods and, non-reusable components.
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Bad UX: How Booking.com deceives clients
Hi, guys, wanted to make some kind of warning for you to make sure no one gets into situation like this.
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Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js and why we didn’t choose React
Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js (and why we didn’t choose React) By Luis Elizondo At Rever (www.reverscore.com) we just released a new version of our web client using Vue.js. After 641 …
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Concurrent JavaScript: It can work
With the recent addition of SharedArrayBuffer, concurrency is finding its way into the JavaScript language.
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How V8 handles JavaScript properties internally
This technical deep-dive explains how V8 handles JavaScript properties behind the scenes.
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ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale
Today, we’re releasing a preview of a new SDK called ARCore. It brings augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones. Developers can start experim…
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The Web in 2050
If you’re reading this page it means that you are accessing a ‘darknet’ web page. Darknets used to refer to places where illicit drugs and pornography were traded, these days it refers to lonely servers without any inbound links languishing away in dusty server rooms that people have all but forgotten about. Refusing…
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JavaScript is Eating the World
NodeJS is quickly becoming one of the most commonly used language in building web applications and is beginning to find its way into the Enterprise.
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I'm giving up on HPKP
HTTP Public Key Pinning is a very powerful standard that allows a host to instruct a browser to only accept certain public keys when communicating with it for a given period of time. Whilst HPKP can offer a lot of protection, it can also cause a lot of harm too.
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New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
This summer, we have enhanced bicycle costing. Not only is overall routing improved, but `use_roads'` and `use_hills` are now much more versatile.
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Offline-Friendly Forms
Forms on the web don't usually play nice with bad connections. If you try to submit a form while offline, you'll most likely just lose your input. Here's how we might fix that.
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Disconnect. Offline only
Disconnection can be good.