Using a custom service worker to expand on your browser’s capabilities. — There is a lengthy ongoing debate on how the Web could compete with the onslaught of native apps on mobile platforms — heck, there is debate on whether it even should. If you agree with Alex Russell, you might agree that transitioning away from the safety of our wired broadband…

From browsers to mobile phones, from tablets to tabletops, from industrial automation to the tiniest microcontrollers — JavaScript seems to creep into the most unexpected places these days. It’s not too long until your very toaster will be running JavaScript… but why? How exactly did we end up here? In recent months I have been frequently asked…

Internet-of-things festival, embedded-hardware JavaScript hackery and mobile HTML5 WebAPI magic — a weekend with Mozilla and Jan Jongboom in Budapest. When Firefox OS didn’t take off in Hungary as many of us hoped— two years after the official launch the open source mobile platform remains an ghost among the consumers…

After an intense slightly less than one-and-a-half year, I am leaving the wolfpack of POSSIBLE’s incredible UID folks. It wasn’t an easy decision from either side, but it became sadly apparent, that I was getting increasingly less able to commit myself to the job as my other engagements towered above…

(and just why are we not there yet) For those late to the party — what is Servo? Well, if you have never heard of Servo — Servo is a brand new open-source browser engine, built from the ground up by Mozilla and Samsung (and a host of third-party open source contributors). Browser engines are the “soul” of a browser — the “Gecko” engine in Firefox (OS), “Blink”…

“I hate it when this happens” — I thought to myself. That morning, I opened twitter, and the internet was on fire, again. Not as radically and all-encompassingly though, as we are used to it nowadays, this time it was mostly angry people — people angry at Mozilla. I’m not…