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• A Taste of JavaScript’s New Parallel Primitives

  TL;DR – We’re extending JavaScript with a primitive API that lets programmers use multiple workers and shared memory to implement true parallel algorithms in JavaScript. Multicore computation JavaScript (JS) has grown up, and it works so well that virtually every modern web page contains large amounts of JS code that ...

  Posted May 05, 2016 by Lars T Hansen

• Developer Edition 48 – Firebug features, editable storage, inspector improvements and more…

  This week marks the release of Firefox Developer Edition 48. In preparation for the arrival of multiprocess Firefox and the deprecation of the Firebug add-on, we are porting Firebug features to the built-in tools. We have also made tweaks to the current tools that we’ll cover in this post. Firebug ...

  Posted May 02, 2016 by Tim Nguyen

• You might not need a CSS framework

  CSS frameworks have been around for a while and they have gotten extremely popular in the front-end development scene. These frameworks provide snippets of code you can just copy and paste in your website to craft the whole layout and UI. You have already probably read a lot of articles ...

  Posted April 21, 2016 by Belén Albeza

• How to implement SRI in your build process

  Imagine getting a call from a customer who says your website is serving malware. Your heart drops, you start sweating, and then the tweets start pouring in. Something is up. You find out your systems have not been tampered with. In fact, it was your CDN provider that got hacked, ...

  Posted April 12, 2016 by Justin Dorfman

• Mozilla ♥ Rails Girls Summer of Code

  Mozilla is working hard to support and advocate for diversity in the tech industry. On that note, we are proud to announce our support and sponsorship of the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, 2016 edition! Rails Girls Summer of Code (RGSoC) is a fellowship program conceived to bring more ...

  Posted April 08, 2016 by Szmozsánszky István