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EFF recently updated our SSL certificate and configuration. This gave us an A+ rating on SSL Labs, a great jumping off point for reviewing a site's secure connection. What follows is a quick, technical guide to how we achieved this. Generating a Certificate First we generate an 4096-bit RSA private...
Posted by Jay Brown, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Security For many years, we’ve worked to increase the use of encryption between our us...
In furthering the advantages and appeal of the Web as a platform for games and game technologies, Mozilla is publishing its games-focused roadmap. In short, it’s all about high-performance, plugin-free ...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your da…
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
Understand Chrome's deprecation of U2F API and its effects, while exploring how to migrate to the WebAuthn API for continued YubiKey support.
API SaaS products bring a new age of enterprise cloud-based solutions. An age that empowers developers and creates the building blocks for our future.
Posted by Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar Gmail's web interface had a widespread outage earlier today, lasting about 1...
For too long, web race condition attacks have focused on a tiny handful of scenarios. Their true potential has been masked thanks to tricky workflows, missing tooling, and simple network jitter hiding
In a match made in marketing heaven, Distilled has become part of Brainlabs, the global, digital-first, media agency.
Posted by Ela Czajka, Software Engineer Many of our users say the accuracy of our spam filter is one of the key reasons they love Gmail. ...
Using JavaScript to write fast, interactive web applications has exploded in popularity over the past few years. JavaScript apps offer many strengths over traditional server-rendered applications. Most notably, rich interactions and lightning-...
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The section below about safe area insets was updated on Oct 31, 2017 to reflect changes in the iOS 11.2 beta.
Hear from a Warp engineer why building a UI in Rust is challenging. Learn about innovative solutions and approaches to tackle its strict memory management and lack of inheritance.
Advancements in password cracking and frequent theft of password databases endanger single-factor password authentication systems. Password managers are one of the only tools available that can help users remember unique high-entropy passwords, and other secrets such as credit card numbers, for a large number of…
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Carson Gross explores the Locality of Behaviour (LoB) principle, which emphasizes making the behavior of code units obvious on inspection to enhance maintainability. He discusses the tradeoffs between LoB and other software design principles like DRY and SoC, offering insights on balancing clarity, abstraction, and…
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. Today, we get ...
Due to a long list of documented issues, Mozilla previously announced our intent to distrust TLS certificates issued by the Symantec Certification Authority, which is now a part of DigiCert. ...
