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Mozilla Has Created A-Frame, a VR Framework
Mozilla has created and open sourced A-Frame, a framework for creating VR scenes for the desktop browser, smartphone and Oculus Rift.
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Adobe to Replace Flash Professional
Adobe have announced the end of Flash Professional, replacing it with Animate CC -- a "premier web animation tool for developing HTML5 content".
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WordPress.com Replaces PHP with JavaScript
WordPress.com has replaced PHP with web technologies and a RESTful back-end API for the administration console.
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Microsoft Bumps Edge Rendering Engine to EdgeHTML 13
The roll out of the first major update to Windows 10 includes the latest rendering engine for Microsoft's Edge browser. EdgeHTML 13 includes a number of HTML5 and CSS features and is a good sign that Microsoft can continually update their newest browser.
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RiotJS Takes Big Step Forward with 2.3 Release
The Riot.js core team has released version 2.3, describing it as "a big step forward" for the React-like micro-library. The major 2.3 release organises the code base into six different modules: compiler, tmpl, observable, route, core and cli, meaning that if developers want to use just a part of the framework like the riot-route or the riot-observable they can do it without using riot at all.
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Measuring the Performance of Single Page Web Applications
Measuring the performance of single page applications (SPAs) presents some unique challenges. Philip Tellis, author of the boomerang library and Chief Architect at SOASTA, and Nicholas Jansma, senior engineer at SOASTA, deep-dived into the subject at the Velocity conference in Amsterdam, providing context and specific advice on how to measure performance for that kind of web applications.
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JavaOne 2015 Preview
In preparation for JavaOne 2015, InfoQ held a Q&A session with a number of speakers at this year's conference that caught our eye.
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Speeding Up the Mobile Web with AMP HTML
Google has open sourced the specification for a restricted HTML that is meant to improve the mobile experience on the web.
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Lightweight JavaScript Library Offers Flash-Free Clipboard Integration
Clipboard.js is a lightweight library to copy text to the clipboard without using Flash.
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React 0.14 Hits Release Candidate, Adding New Package Split, Refs Syntax, and More
Two months after entering beta, React 0.14 has reached release candidate status. React 0.14 will enforce separation of rendering and core concerns, make it easier to declare stateless components, and add new `refs` syntax.
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The Alliance for Open Media Is Set to Create a Free Video Format
Several large Internet companies - Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix – have formed the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), an organization aiming to create an open royalty free video format that is interoperable, fit for various devices including mobile ones, supporting high quality video formats including UHD and commercial/non-commercial content.
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Chrome 45 will no Longer Automatically Run Flash
With Chrome 45 only the main Flash content will be enabled, the rest being paused unless the user decides to manually start it.
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Netflix.com Adopts Universal JavaScript, Drops Java from Rendering Pipeline
The team behind Netflix.com have dropped their Java-based HTML renderer in favor of a Universal JavaScript renderer that they can run in the browser or on the server.
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Becoming a Great Web Front-end Developer
This article contains advice written for web developers by two engineers, one recommending useful tools and techniques while the other providing suggestions on addressing some of the challenges faced writing for the browser.