Web Development

Puppeteer Support for the Cross-Browser WebDriver BiDi Standard – Mozilla Hacks

We are pleased to share that Puppeteer now supports the next-generation, cross-browser WebDriver BiDi standard. This new protocol makes it...

Thoughts on Streaming Services: 2024 Edition

Streaming services have revolutionized content delivery, sending linear media companies into a panic as they watch traditional cable services decay. "Cutting the cord" is...

Designing for the Unexpected – A List Apart

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create...

Open Source and Closed Source

Software licenses dictate the terms under which software can be used, modified, and distributed. Choosing the...

Option Soup: the subtle pitfalls of combining compiler flags – Mozilla Hacks

Firefox development uncovers many cross-platform differences and unique features of its combination of dependencies. Engineers working on Firefox regularly overcome...

Extract a Number from a String with JavaScript

User input from HTML form fields is generally provided to JavaScript as a string. We've lived with that fact for decades but sometimes...

Voice Content and Usability – A List Apart

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have...

Announcing Interop 2024 – Mozilla Hacks

The Interop Project has become one of the key ways that browser vendors come together to improve the web platform....

Date.now()

Ask any software engineer and they’ll tell you that coding date logic can be a nightmare. Developers need to consider timezones, weird date...

Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt – A List Apart

In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four...

Non-Design lessons learned while designing interfaces

It’s been a year since I joined the NextUX Design Agency and I can’t be more...

Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3 – Mozilla Hacks

In collaboration with the other major browser engine developers, Mozilla is thrilled to announce Speedometer 3 today. Like...

Fixing Cumulative Layout Shift Problems on DavidWalshBlog

Over 50 thousand developers visit DavidWalshBlog every month from around the world to learn JavaScript tricks and fix problems in their code. Unfortunately, some...