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• Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity

  Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition 43 and other modern browsers help websites to control third-party JavaScript loads and prevent unexpected or malicious modifications. Using a new specification called Subresource Integrity, a website can include JavaScript that will stop working if it has been modified. With this technology, developers can benefit from ...

  Posted September 25, 2015 by Frederik Braun

• Building RTL-Aware Web Apps and Websites: Part 1

  Making the web more accessible to more people, in more languages, is an ongoing effort and a mission we take very seriously at Mozilla. This post is the first of a series of articles to explain one of the most neglected and least well-known corners of web development: RTL (right-to-left) ...

  Posted September 24, 2015 by Ahmed Nefzaoui

• Let’s Write a Web Extension

  You might have heard about Mozilla’s WebExtensions, our implementation of a new browser extension API for writing multiprocess-compatible add-ons. Maybe you’ve been wondering what it was about, and how you could use it. Well, I’m here to help! I think the MDN’s WebExtensions docs are a pretty great place to ...

  Posted September 21, 2015 by Blake Winton

• Stereoscopic Rendering in WebVR

  At Mozilla, a small recon team has been toying with the idea of blending the best features of the web such as interconnectedness, permissionless content creation, and safe execution of remote code with the immersive interaction model of Virtual Reality. By starting out with support for Oculus’s DK2 headset, we’ve ...

  Posted September 16, 2015 by Nick Desaulniers

• Backing Up User Data on Firefox OS

  The FFOS Backup/Restore Team Portland State University’s Computer Science degree culminates in a capstone program that matches teams of students with industry sponsors for a six-month software engineering project. We had the privilege of working with Mozilla on an application to back up and restore personal data on Firefox OS. ...

  Posted September 15, 2015 by Ryan Bernstein