Web standards

Mozilla’s Head of Mixed Reality Programme Strategy Andre Vrignaud

Virtual Reality

PlayStation 4: "We'd love to be on there" – interview with Firefox Reality's Andre Vrignaud

After the launch of Firefox Reality, we spoke to Mozilla’s Head of Mixed Reality Andre Vrignaud about the future of the browser, VR, mixed reality and 3D digital content.

Could the fediverse help to restore the web we lost?

Telecommunications

What on Earth is the fediverse and why does it matter?

Unlike Twitter, Mastodon's messages are distributed across independent servers with their own communities and rules. But it's just one example of this new breed of website which makes up the fediverse, which may just buck the trend of locking content behind walled gardens like Twitter and Facebook.

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the development of a new mobile web applications standard that will help developers create smarter apps that will work across various mobile platforms

Mobile Technology

W3C releases Mobile Web Application Best Practices guidelines

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the development of a new mobile web applications standard that will help developers create smarter apps that will work across various mobile platforms.

After early HTML5 conformity testing gave Microsoft's IE browser an early lead, the W3C reminds us that it's still early days

Computers

Put the champagne away: W3C says it's too early for HTML5 conformity celebrations

After early HTML5 conformity testing gave Microsoft's IE browser an early lead, the W3C reminds us that it's still early days

SPDY from Google's Chromium development team has achieved 55 percent faster page loading times than the more familiar HTTP protocol

Computers

Google SPDY aims to make web faster

Developers at Google have created a protocol which aims to significantly lessen latency on the web and make for a faster internet experience for everyone