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• A WebAssembly Milestone: Experimental Support in Multiple Browsers

  WebAssembly is an emerging standard whose goal is to define a safe, portable, size- and load-time efficient binary compiler target which offers near-native performance—a virtual CPU for the Web. WebAssembly is being developed in a W3C Community Group (CG) whose members include Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and Apple. I’m excited to ...

  Posted March 15, 2016 by Luke Wagner

• Debugging Service Workers and Push with Firefox DevTools

  Following the announcement of Web Push in Firefox 44, we’re now delivering the capability to develop and debug service workers and push notifications code with DevTools using Firefox Developer Edition 47. Here’s a screencast that demonstrates the features described in this post: Or if you prefer text, keep reading! about:debugging ...

  Posted March 11, 2016 by Soledad Penadés

• Build the Virtual Reality Web with A-Frame

  The WebVR team at Mozilla (MozVR) set out over a year ago asking, “what would virtual reality (VR) on the Web look like?” Today we click on links to jump from page to page, one day we will walk through portals to jump from world to world. Unfortunately, there are ...

  Posted March 03, 2016 by Kevin Ngo

• Introducing the WebVR 1.0 API Proposal

  2016 is shaping up to be a banner year for Virtual Reality. Many consumer VR products will finally be available and many top software companies are ramping up to support these new devices. The new medium has also driven demand for web-enabled support from browser vendors. Growth in WebVR has ...

  Posted March 01, 2016 by Casey Yee

• Introducing DevTools Reload

  As a way to encourage more open source developers to contribute to the evolution of Firefox Developer Tools, the DevTools team has built DevTools Reload, an add-on that removes some common barriers to entry. It’s not unusual for mature Open Source projects to have large code bases. This can act ...

  Posted February 24, 2016 by Soledad Penadés