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• Performance Testing Firefox OS With Raptor

  When we talk about performance for the Web, a number of familiar questions may come to mind: Why does this page take so long to load? How can I optimize my JavaScript to be faster? If I make some changes to this code, will that make this app slower? I’ve ...

  Posted June 26, 2015 by Eli Perelman

• ES6 In Depth: Collections

  ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Earlier this week, the ES6 specification, officially titled ECMA-262, 6th Edition, ECMAScript 2015 Language Specification, cleared the final hurdle and was approved as ...

  Posted June 19, 2015 by Jason Orendorff

• ES6 In Depth: Using ES6 today with Babel and Broccoli

  ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. ES6 is here, and people are already talking about ES7, what the future holds, and what shiny features a new standard can offer. ...

  Posted June 17, 2015 by Gastón I. Silva

• ES6 In Depth – Symbols

  ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. What are ES6 symbols? Symbols are not logos. They’re not little pictures you can use in your code. let 😻 = 😺 × ...

  Posted June 11, 2015 by Jason Orendorff

• Build an HTML5 game—and distribute it

  Last year, Mozilla and Humble Bundle brought great indie titles like FTL: Faster Than Light, Voxatron, and others to the Web through the Humble Mozilla Bundle promotion. This year we plan to go even bigger with developments in JavaScript such as support for SIMD and SharedArrayBuffer. Gaming on the Web ...

  Posted June 10, 2015 by Nick Desaulniers