Servo Continues Pushing Forward
An update from Adenilson Cavalcanti and Lars Bergstrom
HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites
The Associated Press reports that healthcare.gov–the flagship site of the Affordable Care Act, where millions of Americans have signed up to receive health care–is quietly sending personal health information to a number of third party websites. The information being sent includes one's zip code,...
Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
Today we are announcing our intent to phase out non-secure HTTP. There's pretty broad agreement that HTTPS is the way forward for the web. In recent months, there have been ...
Launching NginScript
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
Google launches offline maps
Download an area of the world to your phone, and the next time you find there’s no connectivity Google Maps will continue to work seamlessly.
Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
Given the shortcomings of CoffeeScript, we investigated many alternatives, including ClojureScript, Babel, Elm, and PureScript. TypeScript stood out as a clear winner. Here's why.
Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards
By Mollie Ruskin, United States Digital Service
The Fall and Rise of SVG
The Silicon Publishing Blog, posts about publishing technology from the world experts at InDesign Server automation.
Routing on OpenStreetMap.org
Good news for OpenStreetMap: the main website now has A-to-B routing (directions) built in to the homepage! This will be huge for the OSM project. Kudos to Richard Fairhurst and everyone who helped get this up and running.
Introducing Shadow DOM API
We’re pleased to announce that basic support for the new slot-based shadow DOM API is now available in the nightly builds.
Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity
Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition 43 and other modern browsers help websites to control third-party JavaScript loads and prevent unexpected or malicious modifications. Using a new specification called Subresource Integrity, a ...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Modern JavaScript Tooling
A lot of developers coming to JavaScript world attracted by React.js are confused with the tooling used to produce modern JavaScript code. Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Mocha, Karma, Grunt... what should I use and which tool is doing what? JavaScript newcomers are often people coming from communities like Ruby and Java…
Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening
WebAssembly is a new binary format for compilation to the web. It is in the process of being designed and implemented as we speak, in collaboration among the major browser ...
Firefox Now Offers a More Private Browsing Experience
We’re releasing a powerful new feature in Firefox Private Browsing called Tracking Protection. We created this feature because we believe in giving you m
OAuth Has Ruined Everything
Save time building sleek web, mobile and desktop apps with professional .NET UI Components, JavaScript UI Libraries, Reporting and Automated Testing solutions.
Compiler Errors for Humans
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix
If you have been paying attention on Twitter recently, you have likely seen some increasing numbers regarding the number of simultaneous connections the Phoenix web framework can handle. This post documents some of the techniques used to perform the benchmarks.
Introducing node-firefox
NOTE: we presented this project last Sunday at FOSDEM, but not everyone could make it to Brussels, so here's a post explaining what node-firefox is and how can it help ...