ByDavid Bisset
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Mozilla recently launched a clever (if not 100% original) add-on called No More 404s, which provides Firefox users with options to read an earlier version of a 404 or deleted web page via the Wayback Machine.
US DOJ warns of looming web accessibility enforcement. Weglot scores funding. WP-Wallet and Image Source Control launch. Block dev tuts. The Block Protocol and WordPress. WCUS and WordSesh calls for speakers. Why the web is a miracle and Mozilla’s vision for its evolution.
David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you! Recorded shortly before WordCamp Europe 2022.
Mozilla is introducing “Total Cookie Protection” in a “strict privacy mode” in Firefox. It prevents tracking companies from using cookies and confines cookies to the sites where they were created. 🍪 Johann Hofmann and Tim Huang explain in more depth how state partitioning works and how developers can stay compatible with this “fundamental change” to…
Mozilla is also going to stop trusting SSL certificates issued for more than a year. This applies to new certificates issued on or after 1 September 2020. If you have an existing two-year certificate, you can continue to use it until it expires. 🔒
Not all of these are new, but they are new to me. Here are several interesting plugins I’ve discovered recently: The Mozilla web apps team has released a free plugin called Offline Content that uses the Service Workers API and browser’s Cache API to allow your users to access — as the name indicates —…
“The Coral Project is a joint effort between The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Mozilla Foundation, and The Knight Foundation…” designed to make comments and online communities better. Yes, please. I look forward to seeing where this goes. Nieman Lab has a write-up about the project.
