Firefox 65 ships today with some notable Firefox Devtools updates, including the release of the CSS Flexbox Inspector, a new changes panel, and more. We're shipping CSS platform improvements and ... | Continue reading
With the release of Things Gateway 0.7, Mozilla's IoT team announces experimental support for IP cameras, along with support for a wider range of sensors that track temperature, leaks, and ... | Continue reading
WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. So when people say that WebAssembly is fast, what ... | Continue reading
Memory safety violations can cause programs to crash unexpectedly and can be exploited to alter intended behavior--languages can manage this multiple ways | Continue reading
Introducing a new 7-part video series with Josh Marinacci: How to make a virtual reality project in your browser with three.js & WebVR. These short tutorials show how to create ... | Continue reading
What kinds of tools do artists, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and creatives of all flavors need to be able to easily make augmented reality experiences? What kinds of apps can people ... | Continue reading
CSS Flexbox is an increasingly popular layout model that helps in building robust dynamic page layouts. However, it has a big learning curve! The new Flexbox Inspector, created by Firefox ... | Continue reading
The year's last release of Firefox bundles together goodies for all, including multi-tab management in the interface, new CSS features, devtools improvements, better privacy protections, add-ons updates, and much, much ... | Continue reading
Starting today, the Rust 2018 edition is in its first release. With this edition, we’ve focused on making Rust developers as productive as they can be. Most of the language ... | Continue reading
Starting today, the Rust 2018 edition is in its first release. With this edition, we’ve focused on making Rust developers as productive as they can be. Most of the language ... | Continue reading
ActivityPub is a W3C standard protocol that describes ways for different social network sites (loosely defined) to talk to and interact with one another. ActivityPub aims to do for social ... | Continue reading
LPCNet is a new project out of Mozilla's Emerging Technologies group — an efficient neural speech synthesiser with reduced complexity over some of its predecessors. Neural speech synthesis models like ... | Continue reading
Web Components comprises a set of standards that enable user-defined HTML elements. These elements can go in all the same places as traditional HTML. Despite the long standardization process, the ... | Continue reading
We’re currently hard at work on some new tools for web designers: a comprehensive Flexbox Inspector as well as CSS change-tracking. Tell us about your biggest CSS and web design ... | Continue reading
Firefox Sync by default protects all your synced data so Mozilla can’t read it. We built Sync this way because we put user privacy first. How it works is... | Continue reading
This month's changelog, from the hard-working engineering team that builds and maintains the MDN Web Docs site, covers performance improvements and experiments, infrastructure updates, as well as countless tweaks and ... | Continue reading
AV1, the next generation royalty-free video codec from the Alliance for Open Media leapfrogs the performance of VP9 and HEVC. The AV1 format is and will always be royalty-free with ... | Continue reading
speedscope is a fast, interactive, web-based viewer for large performance profiles, inspired by the performance panel of Chrome developer tools and by Brendan Gregg’s FlameGraphs. Jamie Wong built speedscope to ... | Continue reading
Building a browser is hard; building a good browser inevitably requires gathering a lot of data to make sure that things that work in the lab works in the field. ... | Continue reading
IndieAuth is a decentralized login protocol that enables users of your software to log in to other apps. It's an extension to OAuth 2.0 that lets any website to become ... | Continue reading
Firefox 63 comes with some long-awaited treats: an implementation of web components, including custom elements and the shadow DOM. Potch also covers the Fonts Editor, the associated font panel in ... | Continue reading
People have a misconception—they think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—is the final version. In fact, we still have many use cases to unlock, from heavy-weight ... | Continue reading
Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, audio codec that can be used for all audio applications, from music streaming and storage to high-quality video-conferencing and VoIP. This 1.3 release brings ... | Continue reading
Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over the Internet. It provides a standard HTTP API for publishing and subscribing to real-time data in specified channels, so ... | Continue reading
At Mozilla, we want WebAssembly to be as fast as it can be. This started with its design, which gives it great throughput. Then we improved load times with a ... | Continue reading
If you use Firefox and want to show your support, we've made a collection of badges you can add to your website. Whether you're passionate about Mozilla's mission, or just ... | Continue reading
The latest version of the Things Gateway rolling out today comes with new home monitoring features that let you directly monitor your home over the web, without a middleman. That ... | Continue reading
At Mozilla, we want WebAssembly to be as fast as it can be. This started with its design, which gives it great throughput. Then we improved load times with a ... | Continue reading
CSS Shapes lets your web designs break out of the rectangular grid. Using a new CSS standard, text can flow, images can be rounded, even just a few non parallel ... | Continue reading
MDN’s user base has grown exponentially in the last few years, so we are seeking support from our users to help accelerate content and platform development. | Continue reading
Making websites accessible to a wide range of users is a vital topic for creators on the web. Over a long weekend in late September, more than twenty people met ... | Continue reading
My goal: load a VR puzzle game in less than 10 seconds. The challenge: compressing and optimizing font, audio, and image files to hit my target. | Continue reading
How we built a streaming RNN model with TensorFlow and used it to make DeepSpeech leaner and faster. | Continue reading
In August, the MDN content community reviewed and merged 85 Browser Compatibility Data pull requests. This month, we’ll continue to work on new interactive examples, converting compatibility data, and migrating ... | Continue reading
Firefox Focus is a mobile app for ad-free, private browsing. Focus for Android 7.0 ships next week, bundled with the Gecko engine for the first time. | Continue reading
Research engineer Manish Goregaokar, who works on Servo and Rust, shares what he's learned and some of the code he wrote, while porting a WebGL application to WebVR. | Continue reading
The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a new protocol powered by individuals on the internet. Its goal is to “re-decentralize” the web by replacing location-oriented HTTP with a content-oriented protocol ... | Continue reading
Publishing and sharing is core to the Web’s ethos, yet to publish your own website or even just share a document, you need to know how to run a server, ... | Continue reading
The web is healthy when the financial cost of self-expression isn’t a barrier. This installment of the Dweb series describes WebTorrent – an implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that runs ... | Continue reading
Scuttlebutt is a free and open source social network with unique offline-first and peer-to-peer properties. Mainstream closed platforms have become a more popular way of creating and consuming content than ... | Continue reading
This post imagines a dystopian future where only the rich can stream video to their homes, and the democratizing forces of the internet have crumbled under corruption and greed. The ... | Continue reading
The Things Gateway from Mozilla lets you directly monitor and control your home over the web, without a middleman. The 0.5 release of the Things Gateway is packed full of ... | Continue reading
This is the first post in a series about the distributed/decentralized web, introducing projects that cover social communication, online identity, file sharing, new economic models, as well as high-level application ... | Continue reading
With Flexbox and Grid, plus the related specifications of Box Alignment and Writing Modes, we have new layout models for the web, which have been designed to enable the types ... | Continue reading
In June, Mozilla collaborated with artist Ian Brill to create an installation called the “Arch” at JSConf EU in Berlin. This interactive environment allowed people to experience the intersection of ... | Continue reading
CSS Grid is groundbreaking new technology for web design. In her newest Layout Land video, Jen Simmons explains the 9 Biggest Mistakes people are making as they adopt this new ... | Continue reading
Our monthly changelog documents what happened in June to the code, data, and tools that support MDN Web Docs site. The team shipped 100+ HTML interactive examples in June. They ... | Continue reading
A team of computer science students from Michigan State University's capstone program went to work on Firefox Quantum’s Theming API. Their goal: Expand upon the existing “lightweight” Theming API in ... | Continue reading