Microsoft Edge supports ES6 modules
Chakra, the recently open-sourced JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows applications, has been pushing the leading edge of ECMAScript language support. Most of ES2015 (aka ES6) language support is already available in Edge, and last week’s Windows Insider Preview build 14342 brings more…
HTML 5.1 is a W3C Recommendation
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.
Debugging with Elm 0.18
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda
Brett Andrews Software Development Engineer Amazon API Gateway recently released three new features that simplify the process of forwarding HTTP requests to your integration endpoint: greedy path variables, the ANY method, and proxy integration types. With this new functionality, it becomes incredibly easy to run HTTP…
JavaScript Performance Updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra
Since we first started work on the Chakra JavaScript engine, it has been our mission and priority to make JavaScript faster for the real-world web, and to continuously improve the experience of browsing in Microsoft Edge (and previously Internet Explorer). We’ve had a very busy year, with highlights like taking Chakra…
Bootstrap 4 Alpha 4 Released
Alpha 4 is here to address those pesky build and package errors, a few CSS bugs, and some documentation inconsistencies we introduced in our last release.
Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
The newest addition to G Suite, Jamboard is a collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy for your team to share ideas and create without boundaries.
How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network
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Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
We received a mail from GitHub a few weeks ago.
How to Crawl the Web Politely with Scrapy
How to crawl the web with Scrapy without harming websites. Here are a few tips for netizens who want to build polite and considerate web crawlers.
Faithful Elm and the Amazing Router
Building an Elm demo app to show how Elm can be used in a project.
Opera: Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster browsing
If there were no bloated ads, some top websites would load up to 90% faster. Today we introduce Opera's ad-blocking feature.
An exploit kit hiding in the pixels of malicious ads
Millions of readers who visit popular news websites have been targeted by a series of malicious ads redirecting them to the Stegano exploit kit.
Add-ons in 2017
A little more than a year ago we started talking about where add-ons were headed, and what the future would look like. It’s been busy, and we wanted to give ...
FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction
FlyWeb is an experimental project we’ve been prototyping from within the depths of Mozilla’s platform division. It started as a side-project late last year, and since then a small, ad-hoc ...
On WebKit Security Updates
Linux distributions have a problem with WebKit security. Major desktop browsers push automatic security updates directly to users on a regular basis, so most users don't have to worry about security updates. But Linux users are dependent on their distributions to release updates. Apple fixed over 100 vulnerabilities…
How to deploy your node app on Linux, 2016 edition
This time we do the work for you.
Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates
Mozilla has discovered that a Certificate Authority (CA) called WoSign has had a number of technical and management failures. Most seriously, we discovered they were backdating SSL certificates in order ...
Vivaldi 1.2 release
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
Google and Box Announce Partnership
Posted by Nan Boden, Head of Global Technology Partners Today, we announced a partnership with Box to power collaboration and productiv...
Updated Firefox Security Indicators
Cross posting this. It was written a couple months ago and posted to Mozilla’s Security Blog This article was coauthored by Aislinn Grigas, Senior Interaction Designer, Firefox Desktop November 3, 2015 Over the past few months, Mozilla has been improving the user experience of our privacy and security features in…