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Android 8.1 Oreo
Our software experience for entry-level devices—Android Oreo (Go edition)—is launching as a part of the Android 8.1, with partners’ devices hitting shelves in the coming…
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Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Blocking Top-Level Navigations to Data URLs for Firefox 58
End users rely on the address bar of a web browser to identify what web page they are on. However, most end users are not aware of the concept of ...
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React v16.2.0: Improved Support for Fragments
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. React 16.2 is now available! The biggest addition is improved support for returning multiple children from a component’s render method. We call this feature fragments: Fragments look like empty JSX tags. They let you group a list of…
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AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this day and age, it is almost impossible to do without our mobile devices and the applications that help make our lives easier. As our dependency on our mobile phone grows, the mobile application market has…
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DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox
Bitmovin and Mozilla, both members of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), are partnering to bring AV1 playback with HTML5 to Firefox as the first browser to play AV1 MPEG-DASH/HLS ...
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DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Lost the Web, What We Learned, and What to Do Next
EFF has been fighting against DRM and the laws behind it for a decade and a half, intervening in the US Broadcast Flag, the UN Broadcasting Treaty, the European DVB CPCM standard, the W3C EME standard and many other skirmishes, battles and even wars over the years. With that long history behind us...
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AWS Media Services – Process, Store, and Monetize Cloud-Based Video
Do you remember what web video was like in the early days? Standalone players, video no larger than a postage stamp, slow & cantankerous connections, overloaded servers, and the ever-present buffering messages were the norm less than two decades ago. Today, thanks to technological progress and a broad array of…
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Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default
Yesterday the Pull Request 46115: "rustbuild: Enable WebAssembly backend by default" was merged into Rust master. With the Nightly build from that night, the wasm32-unknown-unknown target is natively available.
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Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG
You may not realise it, but bandwidth is expensive. It costs you time, money, and battery power whenever you download a file larger than it needs to be. That's why I've become a little bit obsessed with SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics. They're the closest thing to magic that the web has when it comes to image…
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A CMS with no server and 18 lines of configuration
Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!
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Automate GitHub Pages with IFTTT, Glitch and Jekyll
IFTTT supports hundreds of services and you can use any of them to automate your blog posts! For this example, we're going to setup a trigger that automatically cross-posts new images from Instagram on our blog.
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Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share?
When Firefox was introduced in 2004, it was designed to be a lean and optimized web browser, based on the bloated code from the Mozilla Suite. Between 2004 and 2009, many considered Firefox to be t…
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Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libraries
Last week, we released our first annual State of Open Source Security report. One of the discoveries the report mentions is that an analysis of around 433,000 sites found that 77% of them use at least one front-end JavaScript library with a known security vulnerability. In this post, we take a deep dive into that…
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AWS Amplify: JavaScript Open Source Library with React, React Native Extensions
The JavaScript ecosystem is thriving. Every day there are new use cases and functionality across web and mobile ecosystems. Developers are building highly interactive and functional applications across social, consumer, and enterprise spaces. We’ve spent a lot of time talking to these developers. They want to scale…
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Extensions in Firefox 58
With the release of Firefox Quantum on November 14, 2017, we officially entered a WebExtensions-only world for add-on development. While that event was certainly the news of the day, Firefox ...
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Of SVG, Minification and Gzip
Smaller files are downloaded faster, so making an asset file size smaller before sending it to a client is a good thing to do.
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Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is Faster?
With the launch of Firefox Quantum, Mozilla decided to team up with Disconnect Inc. to compare page load times between desktop versions of Chrome’s Incog
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When I use classes, when I don’t, what I do instead and why
When I use classes, when I don't, what I do instead, and why
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How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sourcing of React.js
Pete Hunt, CEO @ Smyte. OG React.js. Ex-Facebook and Instagram [React](/react) is now one of the most popular JavaScript UI libraries in
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Google Maps Gets a New Look
We’ve updated Google Maps with more relevant information, a new color scheme and new icons to help you quickly identify points of interest.
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1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser
1Password X is our brand new, full-featured experience that runs entirely in your browser. Find out what it can do.
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No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts
This is the first post in our “No Boundaries” series, in which we reveal how third-party scripts on websites have been extracting personal information in increasingly intrusive ways. [0] by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan Update: we’ve released our data — the list of sites with session-replay…
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What is a Source Map
These days web assets such as JS and CSS aren’t simple text files. Instead, they’re typically minified or come from a complex build process involving compili...