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• Progressive Web Games

  Web game developer Andrzej Mazur explores the concept of Progressive Web Games. He describes howe to use PWA features built with Web APIs for modern game development. He introduces the Enclave Phaser Template (EPT) — a free, open sourced mobile boilerplate for HTML5 games that provides many shortcuts for getting ...

  Posted May 22, 2018 by Andrzej Mazur

• New in Firefox 61: Developer Edition

  The latest release -- Firefox 61 Developer Edition -- comes with a darker dark theme, more powerful and customizable developer tools, the new Accessibility Inspector, and numerous performance improvements like better CSS stylesheet parsing and improved time to first paint.

  Posted May 16, 2018 by Dan Callahan

• Debugging Modern Web Applications

  The Firefox Dev Tools team released an upgrade to the debugger’s source map support. It lets you inspect the code that you actually wrote. Combined with the ongoing work to provide first-class JS framework support across all Firefox devtools, these advances boost productivity for web app developers working in frameworks ...

  Posted May 15, 2018 by jlaster

• Visualizing Your Smart Home Data with the Web of Things

  Today we're mashing up two very different applications to make a cool personal dashboard for investigating all our internet-connected things, and their behavior over time. We can use one of the Web Thing API's superpowers: its flexibility. This adaptability allows us to create a bridge between the Project Things gateway ...

  Posted May 10, 2018 by James Hobin

• Firefox 60 – Modules and More

  Firefox 60 continues the evolution of Quantum. The parallel processing of Quantum CSS comes to Firefox for Android, while WebRender work is ongoing. Potch reports on two security upgrades - support for the Web Authentication API and for the Same-Site attribute for cookies - as well the arrival of ES ...

  Posted May 09, 2018 by Potch