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Before ‘HTTP’, whenever a new kind of application was invented (say ‘file sharing’, or ‘address book’ or ‘messaging’) someone would sit down with a bunch of others and would discuss this problem at some length. Then they’d draft up a document describing the problem they intended to solve and the protocol layer they…
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the performance of our React apps.
Fluent is a family of localization specifications, implementations and good practices developed by Mozilla. With Fluent, translators can create expressive translations that sound great in their language. Today we’re announcing ...
Update (Oct 22 13:15 UTC): Windows users that are affected by Tor Browser crashes might try to...
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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.
I first heard about the dinosaur 🦕 VS shark 🦈 analogy when I read this excellent article about relational databases:
Update: The previous version of this post showed performance data from ARES-6 version 1.0.
Using the web today, you are a target. And because of the rampant tracking across websites, each time you use the internet, you become an easier target. Tor Browser can help.
Releasing Town Square. Bring back the feeling that real people are browsing your site with you.
Summary of the things that have happened in the Servo project since January 2023 when Igalia started to maintain it.
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
Feb 2015: A lot’s happened since I wrote this post two years ago. Chrome forked WebKit and started Blink, Opera adopted Chromium, and node-webkit became nw.js. This post describes a complexity of defining WebKit that doesn’t exist much anymore; with Chrome’s departure the WebKit world is more simple and clear.
Introducing The Magazine : a modern iOS Newsstand publication for geeks like us that’s loosely about technology, but also gives tech writers a venue to explore other topics that like-minded geeks might find interesting.
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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For my contact page, I wanted a generic calendar icon to let people view my diary. Calendar icons are almost always a skeuomorph of a paper calendar, but I wondered if I could make it slightly more useful by creating a dynamic icon. Here it is, an SVG calendar which always display's today's date: The background image…
An exciting proposal is expected to land in Go 1.22 - enhancing the pattern-matching capabilities of the default HTTP serving multiplexer in the net/http package.
We should look for ways to make reading, publishing, and community services all play nicely together. I'm calling this model "the unbundled web," and I think RSS should be the primary method of interop.
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