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Mobilizon is our free-libre and federated tool to free events and groups from the clutches of Facebook. After two years of work, today we are releasing the first version of this software, along with a whole series of tools so that you can quickly get started. la version française originale de cet article est ici...
The first version of Socket.IO was created shortly after Node.JS made its first appearance. I had been looking for a framework that easily enabled me to push data from a server to a client for a long time, and even had tried other approaches to server-side JavaScript.
Full details on libjxl v. 0.10 and how it affects jpeg xl lossless compression using Pareto Front for a closer analysis.
Firefox Quantum continues to make news as Mozilla incorporates even more innovative technology into the platform. The development team behind the WebExtensions architecture is no exception, landing a slew of ...
[This is a guest post by Vitaly Shmatikov, professor at Cornell Tech and once upon a time my adviser at the University of Texas at Austin. — Arvind Narayanan.] TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. Our scan discovered a large […]
Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users…
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, volunteer…
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.
If it feels like the ads chasing you across the internet know you a little too well, it’s because they do (unless you’re an avid user of ad blockers, i
The Google Cloud Console UI is a large JavaScript application. This article investigates how it could be sped up.
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[Update: Wladimir Palant has posted a response on the AdBlock Plus blog. Also, a Chrome developer using the handle “Klathmon” has posted numerous good comments in the Reddit discussion of this post , explaining why ad-blockers are inherently CPU- and memory-intensive, and why integrating ad-blocking into a browser…
Yes, the rumours are true! Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into...
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web. We want to deliver a search experience that prioritises human needs, allowing you to explore the web effectively, privately, and without manipulation. We evaluate new technologies...
Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno. By default, Fresh web pages send zero JavaScript to the client.
Designed to bring aggressive C-like optimizations to the largest variety of JavaScript programs.
Include "fartscroll.js" in your page. You can include the latest version straight from our CDN:
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub.
Editor's note: if you want to help test it on a recent nightly you can toggle the devtools.webide.enabled preference in about:config. The WebIDE is available today under Tools>Web Developer>App Manager ...
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We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
Say hello to a fresh new Firefox, designed to get you where you want to go even faster. We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use.
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We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs. So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. It reflects…
An inside look at the inner workings of a technology you may take for granted
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search, published last year. A lot has changed: the legal case has advanced, AI has become the central battleground, and the need for...
