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A Developer’s View on Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge started as a IE fork but later departed considerably from it in an attempt to break with the past and legacy Internet technologies, removing 200K LoC but adding other 300K. Microsoft says they want “better interoperability with other modern browsers, improved performance, security & reliability, and reduced code complexity.”
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New F12 Developer Tools for the New Microsoft Edge
Microsoft's new web browser, Edge, comes with new F12 developer tools built in TypeScript.
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AngularJS 1.4 Completely Refactors Animation System
The AngularJS 1.4 release candidate has been announced, bringing a complete refactor of the internal animation code system. With the 1.4 release, ngAnimate uses the new animation system to provide support for CSS-based animations as well as JavaScript-based animations via callback hooks.
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Firefox 37 Brings Native Playback of HTML5 Video
Mozilla has released Firefox 37, bringing native playback of HTML5 video for Windows, and many security changes.
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Informal HTML6 Proposal for "Single-page Apps Without JavaScript" Attracts Controversy
Bobby Mozumder, editor in chief of Future Claw magazine, has sparked debate by putting forward his "HTML6 proposal for single-page apps without JavaScript."
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Flipboard Pushing Boundaries With Its Web Version Release
Recently, Flipboard has released the web version of its social-network aggregation magazine-format reader. This release aims to bring to the browser the same reading experience users have on Flipboard native applications. To accomplish it, the team responsible for the development had to push boundaries in web technologies to match its native apps counterparts.
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Microsoft Shares Details on Spartan Rendering Engine
Microsoft has provided new information on the reasoning behind the switch to a brand new rendering engine for Project Spartan, the web browser shipping with Windows 10. The new engine is a fork of Trident and eliminates swathes of code that have been in place for 20 years.
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Microsoft Open Sources TouchDevelop Containing 160K LoC
Microsoft has open source their research project TouchDevelop, which contains about 160K lines of code mostly written in TypeScript.
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Twitter Unveils Digits Login for Web
Twitter has officially released Digits Login for Web, the latest interaction of Digits that extends the SMS-based login system to mobile app's sites powered by Digits.
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YouTube Switches to HTML5 Video Player
After many years of working on HTML5 support, YouTube has decided to use their HTML5 video player as the default for modern browsers, using the old Flash-based player only for legacy browsers. Using MPEG-DASH and W3C Media Source Extensions, YouTube can use Adaptive Bitrate streaming to reduce buffering and improve initial playback speed.
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The Current Status of Browser-based Virtual Reality in HTML5
The SFHTML5 group recently had a meeting discussing HTML5 technologies for creating virtual reality experiences – WebGL, WebVR, Three.js, GLAM –, and the current development status for implementing support for them in Firefox and Chrome. The idea is to bring the entire web into the VR experience.
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Supersonic Framework Touts Native Performance for Android and iOS Hybrid Apps
AppGyver has announced Supersonic, a new framework to build hybrid mobile apps on Android and iOS that promises to provide "real native performance," says AppGyver, thanks to a novel approach to designing hybrid apps. Supersonic is also integrated with Steroids, an impressive cross-platform IDE for hybrid apps.
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ZURB Releases a Framework for Creating Responsive Apps
ZURB, a web design company and creator of Foundation (for Sites), has announced and open sourced another framework called Foundation for Apps (FA). FA provides HTML5/JavaScript tools for creating responsive web applications for desktop and mobile devices.
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Service Workers Promise to Make Web Apps Feel Native
The service worker browser feature holds promise for developers looking to make their web apps feel more like native apps. Running in the background and without user interaction, service workers enable advanced scenarios such as offline functionality, cache, background sync, geofencing, and push notifications.
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Firefox 34 Brings SSLv3 Security Fix, New HTML5 Implementations
Mozilla has this week released Firefox 34, with notable features including SSLv3 disabled by default, WebIDE, and the implementation of ECMAScript 6 WeakSet.