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  • Anticipated Firefox 39 Released After Stability Issues Cause Delays

    Mozilla has released Firefox 39, after initial stability issues caused by a third party application. The much-anticipated release brings with it support for CSS Scroll Snap Points, new sharing features, and improved dev tools -- as well as several critical bug fixes.

    James Chesters
    on Jul 08, 2015

  • WebAssembly: A Universal Binary and Text Format for the Web

    Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Apple have decided to develop a binary format for the web. Called WebAssembly, this format could be a compilation target for any programming language, enabling applications to run in the browser or other agents.

    Abel Avram
    on Jun 18, 2015

  • Exploring ES6: Book Introduction and Author Interview

    Exploring ES6 by Axel Rauschmayer is an in-depth look at JavaScript’s latest features. This article includes a short interview with the author.

    Abel Avram
    on Jun 17, 2015

  • ECMAScript 2015 Has Been Approved

    The General Assembly of Ecma International has announced the approval of ECMA-262 6th edition, which is the Language Specification of ECMAScript 6 (ES6), also known as ECMAScript 2015.

    Abel Avram
    on Jun 17, 2015

  • A Developer’s View on Microsoft Edge

    Microsoft Edge started as a IE fork but later departed considerably from it in an attempt to break with the past and legacy Internet technologies, removing 200K LoC but adding other 300K. Microsoft says they want “better interoperability with other modern browsers, improved performance, security & reliability, and reduced code complexity.”

    Abel Avram
    on May 08, 2015

  • Ember Community Votes Overwhelmingly to Drop IE8

    Ember.js users have voted overwhelmingly in favour of dropping support for Internet Explorer 8. Ember co-creator Tom Dale said "the vast majority of Ember users" were "comfortable" with giving up IE8 support in Ember 2.0. Dale went on to say that while there was also "enormous support for dropping IE9 support as well" the benefits were not "as strong".

    James Chesters
    on Apr 28, 2015

  • Microsoft Shares Details on Spartan Rendering Engine

    Microsoft has provided new information on the reasoning behind the switch to a brand new rendering engine for Project Spartan, the web browser shipping with Windows 10. The new engine is a fork of Trident and eliminates swathes of code that have been in place for 20 years.

    David Iffland
    on Mar 03, 2015

  • Pointer Events Reaches W3C Final Stage, “Recommendation”

    The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the Pointer Events standard as a recommendation for wide adoption, but its future is in doubt as Apple and Google are refusing to implement it.

    Abel Avram
    on Feb 25, 2015

  • Microsoft Releases Details, Confirms Rumours On Spartan Project

    Microsoft has released details of its rumoured Spartan browser project, and confirms a move towards standards used by other, more modern, browsers.

    James Chesters
    on Jan 28, 2015

  • Vivaldi: A New Browser Created by Former Opera Developers

    A team of former Opera developers along with their ex-CEO Jon von Tetzchner have created a new browser called Vivaldi.

    Abel Avram
    on Jan 27, 2015

  • jQuery Takes Over the Pointer Events Polyfill from Google

    The Chromium team announced back in August that Google is no longer working on implementing Pointer Events in Chrome in order to focus on Touch Events. Now they have given control to the Pointer Events polyfill library to jQuery which is hoping to “drive developer adoption of this unified event system” and eventually see “all browsers implement this standard natively.”

    Abel Avram
    on Dec 30, 2014

  • What is the Web?

    Mark Nottingham, chair of the HTTP Working Group, asks the question What is the Web? As he mentions, this simple question has some complex and perhaps unexpected answers depending upon your perspective. A common approach would be to say that it has to be rooted in the Web browser, but that has some interesting consequences, not all of which are useful for non-browser stakeholders.

    Mark Little
    on Dec 07, 2014

  • Firefox 34 Brings SSLv3 Security Fix, New HTML5 Implementations

    Mozilla has this week released Firefox 34, with notable features including SSLv3 disabled by default, WebIDE, and the implementation of ECMAScript 6 WeakSet.

    James Chesters
    on Dec 03, 2014

  • Chrome 39 Brings Beacon API and ES6 Generators

    Google's Chrome team has released the stable version of Chrome 39: with updates including the Web Application Manifest specification, Beacon API, and support for ES6 generators.

    James Chesters
    on Nov 25, 2014

  • Lovefield: An SQL-like Query Engine by Google

    Lovefield is a JavaScript library providing an SQL-like query engine to web developers who want the benefits of a relational database.

    Abel Avram
    on Nov 18, 2014
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