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• Vaulting Out of Walled Gardens with Fancy Links

  Have you ever noticed that in Twitter, Facebook, Google and Pinterest some links are displayed quite fancily, with preview images, descriptive text summaries and other information? These links are fancy because of metadata in the source code of the web page itself, implemented specifically for the rich display of links ...

  Posted September 12, 2016 by Dietrich Ayala

• A Web for Everyone: Interviews with Web Practitioners — Belén Albeza

  For the third interview in our cross-browser compatibility series we talk with Belén Albeza (@ladybenko). Belén is an engineer and a game developer who works on developer relations at Mozilla. She is the author of several books about web development, including “Power-up Your Front-End Development with Grunt” and “XHTML + ...

  Posted September 08, 2016 by Justin Crawford

• FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction

  FlyWeb is an experimental project we’ve been prototyping from within the depths of Mozilla’s platform division. It started as a side-project late last year, and since then a small, ad-hoc team has been working on implementing a “version zero” of the concept. We’ve been tinkering for the last 6 months ...

  Posted September 06, 2016 by Kannan Vijayan

• A Web for Everyone: Interviews with Web Practitioners — Chris Coyier

  This is the second in a series of interviews about web compatibility with web practitioners. This week we caught up with Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier), prolific web developer and writer behind CSS-Tricks, Digging Into WordPress, and the ShopTalk Show. Chris is one of the founders of the code-snippet demo site CodePen. ...

  Posted September 01, 2016 by Justin Crawford

• View Source Conference Berlin 2016

  An overview View Source is an intimate, single-track conference for web developers, now in its second year. View Source 2016 takes place in Berlin, Germany, September 12-14, beginning with Ignite lightning talks on Monday evening, followed by two full days of great presenters, curated conversations, and sociable evenings. Tickets are ...

  Posted August 26, 2016 by Havi Hoffman [Editor]