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Hacks Decoded: Sara Soueidan, Award-Winning UI Design Engineer and Author
Sara Soueidan is an independent Web UI and design engineer, author, speaker, and trainer from Lebanon. Currently, she’s working on a new course, "Practical Accessibility," meant to teach devs and designers ways to make their products accessible. We chatted with Sara about front-end web development, the importance of design and her appreciation of birds.The post Hacks Decoded: Sara Soueidan, Award-Winning UI Design Engineer and Author appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95
In Firefox 95, we're shipping a novel sandboxing technology called RLBox — developed in collaboration with researchers at the University of California San Diego and the University of Texas — that makes it easy and efficient to isolate subcomponents to make the browser more secure. This technology opens up new opportunities beyond what's been possible with traditional process-based sandboxing, and we look forward to expanding its usage and (hopefully) seeing it adopted in other browsers and software projects.The post WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
Hacks Decoded: Seyi Akiwowo, Founder of Glitch
Seyi Akiwowo’s reputation precedes her. Akiwowo is the founder of Glitch, an organization that seeks to end online abuse. We spoke with Seyi over video chat to learn about what drives her, why she does what she does and what she’d be doing if not battling trolls online for a living. The post Hacks Decoded: Seyi Akiwowo, Founder of Glitch appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
Hacks Decoded: Thomas Park, Founder of Codepip
Welcome to our Hacks: Decoded Interview series! We spoke with Thomas Park over email about coding, his favourite apps and his past life at Mozilla. Thomas is the founder of Codepip, a platform he created for coding games that helps people learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. The most popular game is Flexbox Froggy.The post Hacks Decoded: Thomas Park, Founder of Codepip appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
Lots to see in Firefox 93!
Firefox 93 comes with lots of lovely updates including AVIF image format support, filling of XFA-based forms in its PDF viewer and protection against insecure downloads by blocking downloads relying on insecure connections.The post Lots to see in Firefox 93! appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
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