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Portal was a passion project that we built to experiment with other ways of moving data between phones and computers. We built the slickest app we could and have continued to support the app, site and server for over 6 years now.
The web is getting faster, and not just the speed of the pages, but also the speed of change. Before, it was fine to build a website and mod...
Mozilla’s Root Store Program has taken the position that trust is not automatically transferable between organizations. This is specifically stated in section 8 of our Root Store Policy v2.5, which ...
URLs have been used for decades now and you'd would think they would have consistent behavior…
To view mountains from above is to journey through time itself: over ancient shorelines, the trails of glaciers, the marks of countless seasons, and ...
Our new screencast series features narration by Christopher Walken.
Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.
jQuery has lately fallen out of favor in web development, but it still powers an estimated 74 percent of sites and paved the way for modern web frameworks.
Since its inception, Whereoscope has been an iPhone-only shop. The genesis of this iPhone-fetishism goes all the way back to the very first iPhone: in a way, it was the potential that device tantal…
Introduction The user experience of Firefox OS on the television platform comes from Mozilla's vision of the Connected Home. This departure from our smart phone interface focuses on ease of ...
Posted by Michael Leggett, User Experience Designer Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after . Other times I send a message an...
Design unique user interfaces with dropdowns, dialogs, forms, navigation menus, tooltips, and more, all in a visual builder.
Solid Queue is Rails’ default background job backend: jobs live in your database, no Redis. See how jobs, workers, and the supervisor work under the hood.
mod_wasm is a new module to run WebAssembly (Wasm) modules in Apache httpd
Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
Last week, Intego researchers discovered new Mac malware, OSX/Linker, that attempts to leverage a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in macOS' Gatekeeper protection. Let's examine what we know about this latest Mac malware campaign. What is the back story? Before digging into the OSX/Linker malware, it would be helpful…
Box-shadow is a pretty powerful property in modern browsers. With just six little values, you can make some really neat stuff. How much neat stuff, you ask? To find out, I set a little time aside each day to play with it. The result is 39 ridiculous little experiments that, due to whatever issues, can only be viewed…
The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordP…
We believe online ads should be better. The Better Ads Standards provide clear, public, data-driven guidance for how the industry can improve ads for consumers. Here's h…
I joined Mozilla in 2017 as an accessibility engineer and soon became the tech lead for accessibility. But for years prior, I was already deeply involved w
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ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Note: There is ...
