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WebExtensions in Firefox 52
Firefox 52 landed in Developer Edition this week, so we have another update on WebExtensions for you. WebExtensions are becoming the standard for add-on development in Firefox. API Parity The ...
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It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard
In a great victory for open standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has just standardized Opus as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state of the art, free audio ...
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Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web
As part of our effort to grow the Web platform and make it accessible to new devices, we are trying to reduce the Web's dependence on Flash. As part of ...
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V8 Release 5.1
V8 v5.1 comes with performance improvements, reduced jank and memory consumption, and increased support for ECMAScript language features.
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AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Introducing AWS Amplify Studio
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What asm.js is and isn't
This is going to be a bit long, so tl;dr asm.js is a formalization of a pattern of JavaScript that has been developing in a natural way o...
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Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers
After the recent announcement regarding WASI support in Workers I decided to see what it would take to get code written in Zig to run as a Worker, and it turned out to be pretty trivial. This post documents the process I followed
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Diving into AngularJS
Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.
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Designing Accessible Color Systems
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
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Rethinking Rails 3 Controllers and Routes - PeepCode Blog
Trusted by 23,000+ organizations, Pluralsight is the online tech learning platform for building AI, cloud, data, and security skills with courses and labs.
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Astro 2.0
Astro 2.0 is here! Astro 2.0 is the first major web framework to deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX. Other release highlights include: Hybrid Rendering • Redesigned Error Overlays • Improved Dev Server and HMR • Vite 4.0 • A New Public Roadmap
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BodyPix: Real-Time Person Segmentation in the Browser with Tensorflow.js
The TensorFlow blog contains regular news from the TensorFlow team and the community, with articles on Python, TensorFlow.js, TF Lite, TFX, and more.
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Implementing Vertical Form Controls
Safari 17.4 adds vertical writing mode support for form control elements across macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.
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A game running in your browser's address bar
Interactive animations and even a game in your URL bar.
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Goliath: Non-blocking, Ruby 1.9 Web Server
There are easily half a dozen of factors you need to consider when picking an app server: the choice of the VM, implementation model, performance and memory usage, driver and library availability, community support, and so forth. In other words, it is a complex set of requirements, and no one solution is likely to…
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How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe
Every year for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM), we put together a real-time visualization of purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants worldwide. This year we're cooking up something big, and in anticipation we wanted to show you how we built the globe last year. Video of BFCM 2023 Globe Besides going for…
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How we built a VS Code Extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript
How we built language server protocol (LSP) support for the Oso VS Code extension with Rust, WebAssembly (Wasm), and TypeScript
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An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple's iPhone 4S webpage
The "phone stage" (blue-bordered box) contains all 6 "slides" of the animation sequence and has a transition css property with a duration and timing function (a cubic bezier curve). For the phone stage to cycle from one slide to the next, its css transform property is updated with new translate and rotate values. At…
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Pdf.js: Rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript
Update: I updated the links again. pdf.js has moved to a new location on github. Why? While traveling to the Firefox 4 launch parties in Seoul and Taipei all the way from California, we killed a lo…
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Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web
Why everyone should use web monetization to help lower the amount of ads on the web
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Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses
Bear with me, because some of these "lies" are going to feel obvious, or like unimportant trivia. In all honesty, that's not that far from the truth. However, I hope you'll let me try to build a detailed and fun illustration showing how something as mundane as email can break our expectations in surprising ways.
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The lost art of XML
There exists a peculiar amnesia in software engineering regarding XML. Mention it in most circles and you will receive knowing smiles, dismissive waves, the sort of patronizing acknowledgment reserved for technologies deemed passé. "Oh, XML," they say, as if the very syllables carry the weight of obsolescence. "We use…
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Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264
Why not drop H.264 support from Android and YouTube, too?
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Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad
You can’t make something conceptually lightweight if it’s carrying 25 years of Windows baggage.