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Common legal challenges and effective strategies in open source software development. Ensure your projects are legally sound & compliant
Pair typefaces effectively: Categorize fonts by properties. Use 3×3 grid method to find combinations.
The Containers feature in Firefox Nightly gives users the ability to place barriers on the flow of data across sites by isolating cookies, indexedDB, localStorage, and caches within discrete browsing ...
Now for queries containing sequences of 2-3 special characters such as [== vs ===] and [+=], Google will return results on the meaning of these sequences in programming …
Why you might benefit from letting this popular paradigm rest in peace.
Programming with WebAssembly or JavaScript is not an either/or choice. So developers don’t need to choose between WebAssembly and JavaScript. However, we do expect that developers will swap out parts ...
WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. So when people say that WebAssembly is fast, what ...
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
Premise In 2017 the most popular web games like agar.io are networked via WebSockets over TCP. If a UDP equivalent of WebSockets could be incorporated into browsers, it would greatly improve the networking of these games. Background Web browsers are built on top of HTTP, which is a stateless request/response protocol…
Which libraries are vulnerable to attacks and how to prevent them.
Which HTTP response headers a CDN edge cache actually reads, how they interact, and how to use them without breaking a dynamic site.
Fingerprinting Firefox users with cached intermediate CA certificates (#fiprinca) ...
Over the years, many have tried to bring us web annotations. On 23 February 2017, things took a giant leap forward when the W3C, the standards body for the web, standardized annotation. Yesterday, on February 23, things took a giant leap forward when the W3C, the standards body for the Web, standardized annotation…
Neutrino is a tool which brings together the best parts of the modern JavaScript toolchain with the ease of zero upfront configuration. Built to let you hit the ground running, ...
You may have heard of Rust by now. The new programming language that “pursuis the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed”. You have to admit, even if you don’t know what trifecta means, it sounds exciting.
After the release of ECMAScript 2015, a.k.a. ES6, the ECMAScript Language Specification is evolving rapidly: it's getting many new features that will help developing web ...
Virtual reality lets you experience amazing things—from exploring new worlds, to painting with trails of stars, to defending your fleet to save the world. But, headsets …
From typing a business letter to taking pictures with friends, the internet has changed every part of our lives. We don't just share information with people, we also want it synced across our computers, tablets, and phones.
Posted by Tim Graham on Feb. 20, 2017
After toiling with Cross-Site Request Forgery on the web for, well forever really, we finally have a proper solution, it's Same-Site Cookies.
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There's a proposal to add a new <h> element to the HTML spec . It solves a fairly common use-case. Take this HTML snippet:
Update: this post was updated to reflect a change in how we determine when Firefox will run in multiprocess mode. Firefox won’t run in multiprocess mode unless add-ons are explicitly ...
Update: James Hague, aka Dadgum was inspired by this to do some work on his blog and I’m happy to report that now his blog is the fastest blog in the world, 4K transferred and 1 request per page, load time < 75 ms. If you have a blog that’s even faster than that let me know.
