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• Using Immutable Caching To Speed Up The Web

  The benefits of immutable caching mean that when a page is refreshed, which is an extremely common social media scenario, elements that were previously marked immutable with an HTTP response header do not have to be revalidated with the server. Lacking this hint, the browser needs to guess which objects ...

  Posted January 26, 2017 by Patrick McManus

• WebGL 2 lands in Firefox

  With the release of Firefox 51, WebGL 2 support has landed! WebGL is a standard API to render 3D graphics in the Web. It is based on OpenGL ES, which is commonly used by mobile games. To date, we have been able to use WebGL 1 (based on OpenGL ES ...

  Posted January 24, 2017 by Jeff Gilbert

• Prototyping a subcontinent scale sculpture in A-Frame

  Back in 2016, I submitted a concept in response to the British Council call for entries to their UK-India 2017 Digital Open Call. Titled “A piece of Art as big as India”, the idea was to create an augmented reality sculpture that the people of India could not only view ...

  Posted January 11, 2017 by Joel Lewis

• TypedArray or DataView: Understanding byte order

  TL;DR Depending on how you access an ArrayBuffer you get different byte order on the same machine. So long story short: it makes a difference if you use a TypedArray or the setters from a DataView. ArrayBuffer is there to give efficient and fast access to binary data, such as ...

  Posted January 04, 2017 by Martin Splitt

• Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools

  Firebug, the original browser developer tool, has been discontinued as a separate Firefox add-on, and will go forward as Firebug.next atop Firefox DevTools. The spirit of Firebug lives on in all of the browser developer tools we build and use today.

  Posted December 20, 2016 by Soledad Penadés