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• Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload

  In 2017, the toolbox for making sure your web page loads fast includes everything from minification and asset optimization to caching, CDNs, code splitting and tree shaking. Understanding what goes on inside a browser is still the most powerful tool for every web developer. This article breaks down how defer ...

  Posted September 14, 2017 by Milica Mihajlija

• Bootcamps, WebAssembly, and Computer Vision

  This past summer, four students at a coding bootcamp in Los Angeles began experimenting with WebAssembly. The result, after six weeks of exploration, was WebSight: a real-time face detection demo based on OpenCV.

  Posted September 12, 2017 by Dan Callahan

• Meta 2 AR Headset with Firefox

  One of the biggest challenges in developing immersive WebVR experiences today is that immersion takes you away from your developer tools. With Meta's new augmented reality headset, you can work on and experience WebVR content today without ever taking a headset on or off, or connecting developer tools to a ...

  Posted September 08, 2017 by Josh Marinacci

• I built something with A-Frame in 2 days (and you can too)

  A few months ago, I had the opportunity to try out several WebVR experiences for the first time, and I was blown away by the possibilities. Using just a headset and my Firefox browser, I was able to play games, explore worlds, paint, create music and so much more. All ...

  Posted September 06, 2017 by Dan Brown

• Flash, In Memoriam

  Part I of a two-part reflection on digital multimedia, yesterday and today: Macromedia launched Flash 1.0 in 1996 with the grand vision of a single multimedia platform that would work flawlessly in any browser or any computer. In its day, Flash triggered a wave of creativity and inspired millions of ...

  Posted August 29, 2017 by Dustin Driver