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• Birdsongs, Musique Concrète, and the Web Audio API

  In January 2015, my friend and collaborator Brian Belet and I presented Oiseaux de Même — an audio soundscape app created from recordings of birds — at the first Web Audio Conference. In this post I’d like to describe my experience of implementing this app using the Web Audio API, ...

  Posted February 26, 2015 by Bill Walker

• WebRTC requires Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) starting in Firefox 38

  Today, we are announcing that Firefox 38 will take further measures to secure users’ communications by removing support in WebRTC for all DTLS cipher suites that do not support forward secrecy. For developers: if you have a WebRTC application or server that doesn’t support PFS ciphers, you will need to ...

  Posted February 25, 2015 by Maire Reavy

• Synchronous Execution and Filesystem Access in Emscripten

  Emscripten helps port C and C++ code to run on the Web. When doing such porting, we have to work around limitations of the web platform, one of which is that code must be asynchronous: you can’t have long-running code on the Web, it must be split up into events, ...

  Posted February 24, 2015 by Alon Zakai

• What’s new in Web Audio

  Introduction It’s been a while since we said anything on Hacks about the Web Audio API. However, with Firefox 37/38 hitting our Developer Edition/Nightly browser channels, there are some interesting new features to talk about! This article presents you with some new Web Audio tricks to watch out for, such ...

  Posted February 17, 2015 by Soledad Penades

• Introducing @counter-styles

  Introduction The characters that indicate items in a list are called counters — they can be bullets or numbers. They are defined using the list-style-type CSS property. CSS1 introduced a list of predefined styles to be used as counter markers. The initial list was then slightly extended with addition of ...

  Posted February 12, 2015 by Saurabh / Jsx