Mixed Content Blocking in Firefox Aurora
Firefox 23 moved from Nightly to Aurora this week, bundled with a new browser security feature. The Mixed Content Blocker is enabled by default in Firefox 23 and protects our users from man-in-the-middle attacks and eavesdroppers on HTTPS pages.
When an HTTPS page contains HTTP resources, the HTTP resources are called Mixed Content. With the latest Aurora, Firefox will block certain types of Mixed Content by default, providing a per-page option for users to “Disable Protection” and override the blocking.
Read moreBuilding a Notes App with IndexedDB, Redis and Node.js
In this post, I’ll be talking about how to create a basic note-taking app that syncs local and remote content if you are online and defaults to saving locally if offline.

More WCAG 2.0 Techniques
For Review: Updated WCAG 2.0 Techniques
More WCAG 2.0 Techniques
For Review: Updated WCAG 2.0 Techniques
Using schema.org markup for organization logos
Today, we’re launching support for the schema.org markup for organization logos, a way to connect your site with an iconic image. We want you to be able to specify which image we use as your logo in Google search results.
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Call for Papers: User Modeling for Accessibility Symposium
May 2013 Internet Explorer Updates
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-037 - Critical
This security update resolves eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the most severe of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Read morePushing Firefox OS Apps to the Geeksphone
A push to device feature was added in the 3.0 release of the Firefox OS Simulator. This feature allows web apps to be pushed to a connected device by clicking one button in the Simulator Dashboard. Read more
Speed Up App Development with X-Tag and Web Components
In the last few years we’ve witnessed an evolution in what ‘app’ means to both developers and consumers. The word app evokes the idea of a rich, task-oriented user experience with highly optimized user interface that responds to its environment and can be used on an array of common devices. In order to make development of rich app experiences easier, native platforms have generated many of their own controls and components that Just Work™.
Read moreLast week in WebKit: simplifying everything
Last week, everyone became crazy about refactoring. Some have taken “spring cleaning” very literally and many patches landed to make WebKit simpler and cleaner.
A nice change ties to the way Objective-C objects are adopted by RetainPtr. Previously, there were 3 ways to adopt a pointer:
RetainPtr<id> foo = adoptNS([...]);
RetainPtr<id> bar(AdoptNS, [...]);
RetainPtr<id> baz;
baz.adoptNS([...]);
The results are in: Hardcode, the secure coding contest for App Engine
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W3C Transitions Pointer Events to Candidate Recommendation
Today, the W3C published Pointer Events as a Candidate Recommendation, an important step towards a standard and interoperable way to handle input from touch, pen, mouse, and more. This fast 5-month progression from First Public Working Draft to Candidate Recommendation is a mark of the effective collaboration between Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Opera, Nokia, jQuery, and others to help sites take advantage of new interactive hardware on the Web.
Read morePhones for Apps for Firefox OS
Update: Today, Monday, May 13 at 11:00am PDT, we closed the submission form for the Phones for Apps program. Thanks so much to all of you for your interest and enthusiasm. Your response has been overwhelming! We’ve received thousands of applications, more than we’re equipped to review in a timely fashion.
Read moreFaster, cheaper internet for all ‘droids
Last week in WebKit: Out of the Shadows
Last week, the annual WebKit Contributors’ meeting was held in San Jose, and WebKittens from all over the world came to talk about all things WebKit. Transcripts from some of the sessions are available on the wiki. Because of the meeting, there was a bit less hacking than usual since people were traveling and socializing.
New behaviors:
Read moreGoogle Public DNS Now Supports DNSSEC Validation
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