Articles by Florian Scholz
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Firefox 79: The safe return of shared memory, new tooling, and platform updates
Firefox 79 offers a new Promise method, more secure
target=_blanklinks, logical assignment operators, tooling improvements for better JavaScript debugging, and many other updates of interest to web developers. In addition, shared memory is back at last, with a safer implementation. -
New in Firefox 78: DevTools improvements, new regex engine, and abundant web platform updates
Firefox 78 heads heads out the door with a new regex engine, updates to the ECMAScript Intl API, new CSS selectors, enhanced support for WebAssembly, some important WebExtensions API updates, and many improvements to the Firefox Developer Tools.
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New in Firefox 77: DevTool improvements and web platform updates
Firefox 77 is now available with a variety of developer tool updates and new web platform features. With your feedback, we've removed performance bottlenecks, resulting in faster, leaner JavaScript debugging. We also report on some changes to Firefox extensions, including fewer permission requests.
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Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration
Today we’re announcing the integration of MDN’s compat data into the caniuse website. Together, we’re bringing even more web compatibility information into the hands of web developers.
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MDN browser compatibility data: Taking the guesswork out of web compatibility
The most powerful aspect of the web is also what makes it so challenging to build for: its universality. When you create a website, you’re writing code that needs to be understood by a plethora of browsers on different devices and operating systems. To allow for browser compatibility data to be accessed programmatically rather than requiring developers to manually search for it, the MDN community is working on migrating the compatibility information currently stored on thousands of wiki pages to a machine-readable JSON format in a GitHub repository.
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Helping web developers with JavaScript errors
Errors are one of the more frustrating things you encounter while programming. Those little messages in the console can ruin your entire afternoon, day, or week. When “undefined is not a function” appears yet again, it’s often time to get another coffee. Even if you use the one true JavaScript exception handler, and have a […]
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Canvas 2D: New docs, Path2D objects, hit regions
Over the last year, a couple of new HTML Canvas 2D features were implemented in Firefox and other recent browsers, with the help of the Adobe Web platform team. Over on MDN, the documentation for Canvas 2D got a major update to reflect the current canvas standard and browser implementation status. Let’s have a look […]
