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.
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.
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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…
A proposal has been published on the Make WordPress blog that asks for feedback on the idea of licensing Gutenberg under the GNU General Public License, v2 (GPL v2) and the Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL v2.0). Matt Mullenweg notes that allowing people to embed Gutenberg under the MPL might increase its usage outside of…
News for Firefox and Mozilla doesn’t seem to be getting better these days, which saddens people like me who currently use Firefox as their primary browser. 😟 Cal Paterson says “Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%” and then explains three measures that show what is wrong: overhead, ethics,…
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. 🔒
Mozilla vs. The Bottom Line Sad news from Mozilla — the company has laid off 250 people. If that wasn’t bad enough, it appears that certain features in Firefox that many developers treasure may be vastly reduced or simply eliminated soon. 😱 This tweet from Kat Marchán, if accurate, reflects what is known at the…
A new version of Firefox (70) is out, and Chris Mills covers all the developer-focused enhancements. Firefox has made tremendous advances in developer tools and features — both in CSS and JavaScript — and I’ve enjoyed using it for the past month as my default browser. One of the things I miss from Chrome is…
If you like trying out new open-source CMS applications now and then, check out Django-based Wagtail, which Mozilla and Google are using. Wagtail is designed for headless deployments where the frontend pulls content from the CMS with GraphQL queries.
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 —…
A small team from Mozilla has created FlyWheel which – as this post explains – is “an API for web pages to host local web servers for exposing content and services to nearby browsers”. This is interesting because these browser APIs are useful for advertising and discovering local-area web servers, which opens up possibilities ranging…
Mozilla introduced Firefox Focus – a simple-to-use and free private iOS browser. Interesting in that it also offers a system-wide content blocker that seems primarily focused on privacy invasive trackers. I don’t use browsers outside of Mobile Safari, but I’m planning on checking this out.
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.
“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.
I had the privilege to attend and be the media partner at A Day of REST, the world’s first conference devoted to the WordPress REST API. Here’s my initial review, and some pictures, from the event.
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