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Mozilla and Xiph's new Daala video codec to compete with h.265
Daala is the code-name for a new video compression technology. The effort is a collaboration between Mozilla Foundation, Xiph.Org Foundation and other contributors.
W3C finalizes HTML5 specification
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Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5
When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn’t need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools. With those three weapons in hand, we knew developers could build applications that would delight users.
Speeding up HTTP with minimal protocol changes
As SPDY works its way through IETF ratification I began wondering whether it was really necessary to add a complex, binary protocol to th...
The Web We Lost
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript
Web performance monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the speed, uptime, and overall performance of a website to ensure an optimal user experience.
CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web
More than a year ago, Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis approached us about a project they were working on. Dubbed CDNJS, the project had a noble goal: make the world's Javascript resources load as fast as possible.
Show HN: Designing Web Applications
It's not that you set out to create a poorly designed product, but lots of mistakes—big or small—along the way left you with an interface that does its job, but is painful to use.
Checklist for Creating a Landing Page
Use the Unbounce landing page checklist to optimize your landing page and get the best results out of your marketing campaigns.
What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap
I didn’t think I’d learn anything building Bootstrap. Actually, I was pretty confident I wouldn’t learn anything. As a technical challenge, Bootstrap just isn’t very interesting. It’s …
Bootstrap 2.2.2 is out
Today we're launching Bootstrap 2.2.2, another larger bugfix release that focuses mostly on CSS and documentation fixes, with a few key JS issues mixed in as…