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SPDY: What I Like About You
I've been working on implementing SPDY as an experiment in Firefox lately. We'll have to see how it plays out, but so far I really like it. ...
Getting Started on the Google+ API
The Google+ project brings the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software . The Google+ platform brings that nuance and richness t...
37signals.com - Evolution of a homepage
Christmas 2010 I had the idea to make a video of the 37signals homepage. I’d recently gained access to the relevant source code repositories and It seemed like a fun thing to do over a weekend. The result is the video below. It’s a timelapse of the 37signals.com homepage between Marc…
Metro
A version of Windows 8 with nothing but Metro looks like an excellent design for an iPad rival.
JavaScript is Not Web Assembly
Writing and Stuff from Isaac Z. Schlueter
Google & the Future of JavaScript
Simply stated, Google is absolutely committed to making JavaScript better, and we're pushing hard to make it happen.
The Drupal Crisis
There have been many pretty obvious signs in the recent past for what can only be considered as a critical milestone :
Brendan Eich on Ecma TC39, JavaScript.next, and Google Dash
I spoke at TXJS , a really excellent regional JS conference, in June. Thanks to @SlexAxton , rmurphey , and everyone else involved. My talk was concerned with the good, bad, and ugly of Ecma TC39 (and I mean those words in the best possible way!), mixing philosophy with historical events from the last 14 years.
Just another awesome CSS3 buttons
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Sane RSS usage
The first time I went without RSS in August, I simply went around to three or so of what I consider to be the best sites to get the latest news from. I combined that with my usual e-mail communications … and my regular scans of Twitter in order to figure out what was going on during the day. It was stress-free, and I…
DigiNotar root CA trust removal follow-up
Earlier this week we revoked our trust in the DigiNotar certificate authority from all Mozilla software. This is not a temporary suspension, it is a complete removal from our trusted ...
Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection
Posted by Benoît de Boursetty, Product Manager (Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog ) The great thing about web apps is that you...
Chrome's Most Important Feature
True words. I still remember the time when Chrome had just launched. I could not locate the reload page option in context menu. Just after a couple of hours, and probably a reboot later, it appeared magically. Something similar happened with Spell Check. I had no idea Chrome was auto-updating in the backend. And when…
Flash: 99% Bad
Flash reduces usability by: making bad design more likely, breaking the Web's fundamental interaction style, and consuming resources better spent enhancing a site's core value.
Announcing the first release of batman.js
It gives us great pleasure to finally announce the release of batman.js to the JavaScript community today. This release represents the first code dump of something we’ve been working hard on at Shopify for a long time, so we’re very excited to get it into your hands and see what you do with it.
37signals: A/B testing part 3: Finalé
I was an A/B test skeptic. Maybe we don’t want to be second-guessed. Maybe we don’t want to cater to the lowest common denominator. Designers are taught—explicitly and implicitly—to follow certain visual rules and the final design will work great. The whole A/B testing concept probably …
Introducing WebAPI
Mozilla would like to introduce WebAPI with the goal to provide a basic HTML5 phone experience within 3 to 6 months. The current situation Where we are today, there's ...