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• Web Design Survey Findings and Next Steps

  In November, I wrote about my team’s work on experimental new web design tools and introduced a survey to rank the challenges of web design and development. The insights you shared continue to inform priorities for the Firefox DevTools' 2019 roadmap. Our main takeaway: developers and designers of every experience ...

  Posted February 20, 2019 by Victoria Wang

• Fearless Security: Thread Safety

  Multithreading allows programs to do more faster, but adds synchronization bugs and attacks. Programming languages have evolved different concurrency strategies to help developers manage both the performance and security challenges of multi-threaded applications. Diane Hosfelt explores the challenges of thread safety, and the approach that Rust takes. The post Fearless ...

  Posted February 14, 2019 by Diane Hosfelt

• Anyone can create a virtual reality experience with this new WebVR starter kit from Mozilla and Glitch

  Building a virtual reality experience may seem daunting, but it really isn’t. WebVR and frameworks like A-Frame make it easy to get started right. This is why we worked with Glitch to create a WebVR starter kit. Today we introduce a free, 5-part video course with interactive code examples that ...

  Posted February 12, 2019 by Dan Brown

• Refactoring MDN macros with async, await, and Object.freeze()

  In January, the MDN engineering team landed a major refactoring of the KumaScript codebase, the underlying Node server that runs macros in Kuma, which is the wiki that powers MDN. This work included some modern techniques of interest to JavaScript programmers. The post Refactoring MDN macros with async, await, and ...

  Posted February 07, 2019 by David Flanagan

• Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

  Unsolicited volume can be a great source of distraction and frustration for users of the web. So we are making changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound and we want to make sure web developers are aware of this new audio autoplay blocking default. With the release of ...

  Posted February 04, 2019 by Chris Pearce