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Many people are currently assessing React Native as a platform to develop their next mobile app on. This is no trivial matter. Switching your software development platform involves a high setup cost and will profoundly impact your daily programming workflow. It is also one of the costliest decisions to reverse after…
Firefox had a baby and named it Focus! Firefox Focus is the new private browser for iOS and Android, made for those times when you just need something simp
In September of 2017 Amazon's patent on the 1 click checkout is expiring. This will open the door to any site that wants to improve their checkout.
In this blog post, I would like to introduce the JavaScript Binary AST, an ongoing project that we hope will help make webpages load faster, along with a number of other benefits. A little background Over the years, JavaScript has grown from one of the slowest scripting languages available to a high-performance…
The Quantum Flow and Photon projects have exciting newsletters. The Quantum graphics project (integrating WebRender in Firefox) hasn’t provided a newsletter so far and people have asked for i…
If you are thinking of using Google AMP for your e-commerce site, it might not be the best decision. With our tests, the cons seem to win.
Users on 64-bit Windows who download Firefox can get our 64-bit version by default. That means you get a more secure version of Firefox, one that also crashes a whole lot less . How much less? In our tests so far, 64-bit Firefox reduced crashes by 39% on machines with 4GB of RAM or more.
It might sound silly if you’re not a heavy user of browser tabs, but I am convinced that the lack of favicons is holding back Safari’s market share.
Well, this is huge, so I'd like to draw your attention to what's happening right now. This is a very alarming case, and it concerns every ad blocker user.
font-size is the worst. It’s a CSS property probably everyone who writes CSS has used at some point. It’s pretty ubiquitous. And it’s super …
We have been experimenting with a couple of approaches to bring Mono to the web using WebAssembly - a technology that can efficiently and safely execute code in web browsers without being limited to Javascript. Running code written in C or C++ inside the browser has been a big motivator, but most major programming…
What is WebAssembly, and what does it mean for the web?
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Firefox on Windows is the first desktop browser to support the new WebVR standard (and macOS support is ready now in Nightly!) You'll find many new features for developers, as ...
Shing Lyu's blog
Please welcome Ring UI, an open-source library full of Web UI components!Ring UI library gives you the power of complex UI controls that have been developed at JetBrains over the years. It con
Master JavaScript 'this' keyword: Learn six contexts where 'this' changes value. Essential for OOP and frameworks.
When Tim Berners-Lee announced HTML in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How a given HTML tag was rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences
Recently, I came across a few articles [1, 2, 3] comparing Qt’s modern UI framework – Qt Quick and its own declarative language QML to HTML, with QML coming out as a clear winner in sev…
News and tutorials on AI, Computer Vision, OCR, Anthropic Computer Use, LLM, and its applications in automating daily office tasks. In short: Robotic process automationation (RPA).
When I’ve started writing my stories on Medium it felt really good. Medium was the perfect "medium" to share your thoughts with all your followers. However in couple of years it changed a lot and I didn’t liked those changes. What were these? 1. Setting up a domain
I recently blogged about discontinuing Positron. I’m trying a different tack with a new experiment, codenamed qbrt, that reuses an existing Gecko runtime (and its existing APIs) while simplifying t…
Phoenix 1.3.0 is out!
Why hasn’t Apple added support for service workers in Safari for iOS? Could it be because it goes against their app store revenue model?
