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• Announcing the MDN Fellowship Program

  For nearly a decade, the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has been a vital source of technical information for millions of web and mobile developers. And while each month hundreds of developers actively contribute to MDN, we know there are many more with deep expertise in the Web who aren’t participating—yet. ...

  Posted March 4, 2015 by Diane Tate

• asm.js Speedups Everywhere

  asm.js is an easy-to-optimize subset of JavaScript. It runs in all browsers without plugins, and is a good target for porting C/C++ codebases such as game engines – which have in fact been the biggest adopters of this approach, for example Unity 3D and Unreal Engine. Obviously, developers porting games ...

  Posted March 3, 2015 by Alon Zakai

• Firefox Developer Edition 38: 64-bits and more

  In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox, we unveiled Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser created specifically for developers. At that time, we also announced plans to ship a 64-bit version of Firefox. Today we’re happy to announce the next phase of that plan: 64-bit builds for Firefox Developer ...

  Posted March 2, 2015 by Dave Camp

• Birdsongs, Musique Concrète, and the Web Audio API

  In January 2015, my friend and collaborator Brian Belet and I presented Oiseaux de Même — an audio soundscape app created from recordings of birds — at the first Web Audio Conference. In this post I’d like to describe my experience of implementing this app using the Web Audio API, ...

  Posted February 26, 2015 by Bill Walker

• WebRTC requires Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) starting in Firefox 38

  Today, we are announcing that Firefox 38 will take further measures to secure users’ communications by removing support in WebRTC for all DTLS cipher suites that do not support forward secrecy. For developers: if you have a WebRTC application or server that doesn’t support PFS ciphers, you will need to ...

  Posted February 25, 2015 by Maire Reavy