Category Archives: DevTools
Mozilla teams up with the BBC to bring concert quality audio over the web
Mozilla and the BBC Team up to Deliver Concert Quality Audio from the Royal Albert Hall over the Web Later this summer radiophiles and audiophiles will enjoy the uncompromised accuracy of lossless audio provided by FLAC thanks to an informal … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-Browser Testing, DevTools, May 2017
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The WannaCry attack exposed our vulnerabilities
Real Vulnerabilities: Cybersecurity and how VEP reform makes us all safer Some of our critical vulnerabilities were exposed last weekend, as a ransomware attack took unpatched systems by surprise. These vulnerabilities put users and businesses at significant risk, disabling computer … Continue reading
Posted in DevTools, May 2017
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Quantum up close: what is a browser engine and how does it work?
Quantum Up Close: What is a browser engine and how does it work? It’s pretty easy to see the browser as a single black box, sort of like a TV — data goes in, and the black box figures out … Continue reading
Posted in DevTools, Firefox, May 2017, Quantum
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May 4, 2017: Debugging web push in Firefox, Firefox 54 release notes, Project Quantum, Web Audio and Video API, and more
Debugging Web Push in Mozilla Firefox One of the challenges with Web Push implementation issues is trying to figure out what went wrong. Web Push has a large number of “moving parts”, systems and components that need to work together … Continue reading
Posted in DevTools, Firefox, May 2017
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April 27, 2017: WebAssembly: The Whole Story
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
April 20, 2017: Behind-the-scenes with Firefox 53, plus big Dev Edition news
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
Posted in April 2017, DevTools, Quantum
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