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• Using WebThings Gateway notifications as a warning system for your home

  The WebThings Gateway 0.9 release lets you set up a number of different notification mechanisms including emails, apps, and text messages. In this post James Hobin shows how to set up custom gateway notifications to warn you of changes in your home that you care about. The post Using WebThings ...

  Posted August 15, 2019 by James Hobin

• New CSS Features in Firefox 68

  Firefox 68 landed earlier this month with a bunch of CSS additions and changes. In this blog post Rachel Andrew takes a look at some of the things you can expect to find, like Scroll Snapping done right, the ::marker pseudo-element, and new tooling in Firefox DevTools for working with ...

  Posted July 31, 2019 by Rachel Andrew

• WebThings Gateway for Wireless Routers

  The Mozilla IoT team has been working on evolving WebThings Gateway into a full software distribution for consumer wireless routers. Today, with the 0.9 release, we’re happy to announce the availability of the first experimental builds for our first target router hardware, the Turris Omnia. These builds are based on ...

  Posted July 25, 2019 by Ben Francis

• MDN’s First Annual Web Developer & Designer Survey

  Today we are launching our first annual MDN Developer & Designer Needs Survey. Web developers and designers, we urge you to participate! This is your opportunity to tell us about your needs and frustrations with the web. Your participation will influence how browser vendors like Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung ...

  Posted July 16, 2019 by Kadir Topal

• Add-Ons Outage Post-Mortem Result

  We've been conducting an ongoing post-mortem on the add-ons outage that occurred earlier this year. There was a lot more digging to do than we expected. In addition to this updated high-level overview, we've also published our findings in detailed incident and technical reports that are now available. The post ...

  Posted July 12, 2019 by Eric Rescorla