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• SVG & colors in OpenType fonts

  Prolog Until recently having more than one color in a glyph of a vector font was technically not possible. Getting a polychrome letter required multiplying the content for every color. Like it happened with many other techniques before, it took some time for digital type to overcome the constraints of ...

  Posted October 23, 2014 by Johannes Lang

• The Visibility Monitor supported by Gaia

  With the booming ultra-low-price device demands, we have to more carefully calculate about each resource of the device, such as CPU, RAM, and Flash. Here I want to introduce the Visibility Monitor which has existed for a long time in Gaia. Origin The Visibility Monitor originated from the Gallery app ...

  Posted October 22, 2014 by John Hu

• New on MDN: Sign in with Github!

  MDN now gives users more options for signing in! Signing in to MDN previously required a Mozilla Persona account. Getting a Persona account is free and easy, but MDN analytics showed a steep drop-off at the “Sign in with Persona” interface. For example, almost 90% of signed-out users who clicked ...

  Posted October 21, 2014 by Justin Crawford

• Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site

  This article is a simple tutorial designed to teach you some fundamental skills for creating cross platform web applications. You will build a sample School Plan app, which will provide a dynamic “app-like” experience across many different platforms and work offline. It will use Apache Cordova and Mozilla’s Brick web ...

  Posted October 16, 2014 by Piotr Zalewa

• Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy

  Passwordless is an authentication middleware for Node.js that improves security for your users while being fast and easy to deploy. The last months were very exciting for everyone interested in web security and privacy: Fantastic articles, discussions, and talks but also plenty of incidents that raised awareness. Most websites are, ...

  Posted October 15, 2014 by Florian Heinemann