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WHATWG Is Standardizing Web Streams
After gestating for more than a year on GitHub, the project Streams has now been adopted by WHATWG in an effort to standardize a web streaming API. The project is led by Domenic Denicola, the man that started the work on Promises, currently part of the upcoming ECMAScript 6.
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Chrome 38 Supports Art Direction through the picture Element
Google has added support for the <picture> element in the recently released Chrome 38, enabling developers to specify multiple image sources based on various media queries.
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Microsoft's JavaScript Engine Learns New Tricks For Windows 10
The Internet Explorer team at Microsoft recently detailed changes to the JavaScript engine coming in Windows 10. A significant change is the addition of a second tier in the Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler to reduce startup time.
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New for Internet Explorer: HTTP/2 Support
As part of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, Internet Explorer will offer HTTP/2 support, performance improvements to the Chakra JavaScript engine, and a top-level domains parsing algorithm based on publicsuffix.org.
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Microsoft WinJS 3.0 Now Supports Multiple Platforms
Microsoft has enhanced WinJS by adding support for multiple platforms and several major browsers, has modularized it and made it work with other JavaScript libraries.
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Debugging Apps in Chrome and Safari with Firefox
Mozilla has implemented the protocol adapters that enable remote debugging in Chrome for desktop or Android and Safari/iOS. They are to be integrated into WebIDE.
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Chrome’s Lack of Support for showModalDialog Breaks Some Enterprise Web Apps
Google Chrome no longer supports window.showModalDialog, breaking several enterprise apps such as OWA, EAC, SAP, and others.
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Chrome Sets SHA-1 Expiration Date
Google's Chrome web browser team has announced a schedule to deprecate support for how the browser handles HTTPS certificates using SHA-1 signatures. Over the next 6 months the browser will utilize increasingly noticeable warnings for sites that still use SHA-1.
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August Patch Tuesday Improves Internet Explorer's Security and Features
In their latest Patch Tuesday, Microsoft issued 9 bulletins covering a total of 37 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) spread across some of their products.
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ORTC and the Future of WebRTC
The first stable ORTC (Object RTC) specification is out. The questions is how is it going to impact WebRTC?
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Cloud 9 IDE 3.0 Now Runs in Ubuntu Containers via Docker
Cloud 9 has recently launched a new version of their online IDE. Usually, online developer tools are simpler than their native counterparts, some even refusing to call them IDEs. But Cloud 9 does not want to be just a rich editor, incorporating more and more features of a traditional integrated development environment.
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Firefox 31 Released; Includes New ECMAScript 6 features
Mozilla has released Firefox 31, including the implementation of new ECMAScript 6 features, malware blocking and new features for game developers.
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Chrome 36 with Revamped Incognito
Google released Chrome 36 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android which includes some additions and improvements as well as various bug fixes and performance tweaks.
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Codio: A Multi-language IDE with Its Own Ubuntu Instance
Codio is a browser-based IDE supporting a large number of languages and including its own Ubuntu instance to test the code.
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The Release Process Used by Mozilla for Firefox
This article presents the release process used by Mozilla for their browser.