Category Archives: April 2017

April 27, 2017: WebAssembly: The Whole Story

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WebAssembly: The Whole Story WebAssembly (.wasm) is a new low-level, assembly-like language that can run in modern web browsers at near-native speeds. It is designed to work alongside JavaScript, and it provides a compilation target for languages like C/C++ so … Continue reading →

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April 20, 2017: Behind-the-scenes with Firefox 53, plus big Dev Edition news

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Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks, and More Today’s release of Firefox includes the first significant piece of Project Quantum, as well as various visible and the under-the-hood improvements. We’re building a next-generation browser engine that takes full … Continue reading →

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April 13, 2017: The All-JavaScript Edition

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A Reintroduction to JavaScript Why a reintroduction? Because JavaScript has become one of the most popular programming languages on the Web. In this well-loved MDN article, we look at the history of JavaScript (aka ECMAScript, aka ES), where it is … Continue reading →

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April 6, 2017: What do you think? The Mozilla Developer Survey needs your thoughts

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Mozilla Developer Survey: Can you spare 10 minutes? We’re conducting a developer survey and need your thoughts. Please help us out by answering and sharing with other devs you know. Take the Survey Other News A quick history of Firefox … Continue reading →

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