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Django 4.1
Posted by Carlton Gibson on Aug. 3, 2022
The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2
OAuth2 is one of the most popular specifications for API authentication today, though wrapping your head around it can be a challenge.
Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
Brave's vertical tabs feature is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux users to experience a new way to manage open tabs.
Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
Australis in Firefox on Linux, Mac, and Windows A very exciting set of changes is landing in Firefox Nightly. We’ve been calling the project Australis, but, simply, it’s the next ...
Introducing the new compose in Gmail
Posted by Phil Sharp, Product Manager We're always trying to make Gmail faster and easier to use, so today we're introducing a completely ...
Android Chrome 99 expands Certificate Transparency, breaking all MitM dev tools
Certificate transparency is superb improvement to HTTPS certificate security on the web that's great for users and businesses, but on Android it creates a huge...
Privacy Analysis of FLoC
In a previous post, I wrote about a new set of technologies “Privacy Preserving Advertising”, which are intended to allow for advertising without compr
WorldWideWeb.app
The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning, Mac OS X included the ability to run an Apache web server by clicking a Start button: About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, […]
This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more
Flexbox and WebXR are now enabled by default.
Extensions in Firefox 58
With the release of Firefox Quantum on November 14, 2017, we officially entered a WebExtensions-only world for add-on development. While that event was certainly the news of the day, Firefox ...
How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Open Rates
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete
In August, we announced a new initiative (known as Privacy Sandbox) to develop a set of open standards to fundamentally enhance privacy on...
Building a highly-available web service without a database
In this viral post, we explain a new paradigm of building simple clean apps: from prototyping to scaling up.
Firefox: Performance in Progress
In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz ...
How to Write CSS That Works in Every Browser, Even the Old Ones
Jen Simmons' seven-part mini-series on resilient CSS and how you can create great graphic design on the web, now, and not have to worry about all the old browsers.
Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox
Distinguished engineer Martin Thomson explains how this problem occurred, the implications for people who might be affected, and how problems of this nature might be avoided in future. To get ...
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 ...
We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened
Since our removal of cookies, we’ve seen both positive & negative effects. Learn more about our experience of going cookieless here.
News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed
To address feedback from our community, we're making an update to News Feed ranking to further reduce clickbait headlines.
MDN converted to Markdown
Open Web Docs supports web platform documentation for the benefit of web developers & designers worldwide. We are a community of web developers, standards makers, and technology companies that rely on this documentation as critical digital infrastructure, and we work cooperatively to ensure its long-term success and…
Building React and Vue Support for Tailwind UI
Hey! We're getting really close to releasing React + Vue support for Tailwind UI, so I thought it would be interesting to share some of the behind-the-scenes efforts that have gone into even making it possible.
Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
Drawing separator lines between various sections of a webpage is a common design technique, which can help to structure the content and make it more readable, as well as more aesthetically pleasing. As we'll see in this article, there are techniques
JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced
Please welcome Ring UI, an open-source library full of Web UI components!Ring UI library gives you the power of complex UI controls that have been developed at JetBrains over the years. It con
Django 1.8 released
Posted by Tim Graham on April 1, 2015
React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity
The mobile team at Udacity recently removed the last features in our apps using React Native. Here's what worked and what didn't.