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1. Introducing the new MDN website

   August 27, 2010 • by Jay Patel and Brian Louie • Docs, Featured Article, Forums, MDN • 6 comments

   This week, Mozilla unveiled the newly redesigned Mozilla Developer Network, the latest incarnation of MDC. The website has evolved over the years and we recently decided to change the name from Mozilla Developer Center to the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) to better reflect the developer Read more…

2. Firefox 4: HTTP Strict Transport Security (force HTTPS)

   August 26, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • Firefox 4, Security • 15 comments

   This article is about a new HTTPS header: Strict-Transport-Security, which force a website to be fetched through HTTPS. This feature will be part of Firefox 4. How do you type URLs? Do you prefix them with http:// or https:// systematically? Or do you just type Read more…

3. Firefox 4: Drawing arbitrary elements as backgrounds with -moz-element

   August 24, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • CSS, Demo, Firefox 4 • 35 comments

4. Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here – what’s in for web developers?

   August 24, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • Firefox 4 • 12 comments

   The latest Firefox 4 Beta has just been released (get it here). This beta comes with hundreds of bug fixes, Firefox Sync and Firefox Panorama. Here is a quick overview of the new features for web developers. Firefox now supports the HTML5 video “buffered” property; Read more…

5. HTML5 Video preload attribute supported in Firefox 4, autobuffer attribute removed

   August 24, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • Audio, Firefox 4, HTML5, Standards, Video • No comments yet

   This is a re-post from Chris Pearce’s blog. To comply with the HTML5 specification, we replaced the autobuffer attribute with the tri-state preload attribute. We encourage you to update your code. See the documention on MDC. Late last week I landed support on Firefox trunk Read more…

6. HTML5 video ‘buffered’ property available in Firefox 4

   August 19, 2010 • by cpearce • Audio, Firefox 4, HTML5, Uncategorized, Video • 4 comments

   Support for the HTML5 video 'buffered' property has landed in Firefox, we can now accurately determine which time-segments of a video we can play and seek into without needing to pause playback to download more data. Read more…

7. Help us to make Firefox 4 better: How to open a bug

   August 19, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • qa • 2 comments

   If you run Firefox Beta or Firefox nightlies, you will probably run into some issues. Reporting these bugs and crashes will help us to make sure the user experience is better for all Firefox 4 users. Marcia Knous is part of the Firefox QA team. Read more…

8. More efficient Javascript animations with mozRequestAnimationFrame

   August 16, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • Firefox 4, JavaScript • 4 comments

   This is a re-post from Robert O’Callahan’s blog. mozRequestAnimationFrame is an experimental API to make Javascript animations more efficient. We do not guarantee to support it forever, and I wouldn’t evangelize sites to depend on it. We’ve implemented it so that people can experiment with Read more…

9. Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here – Experimenting With Multi-touch

   August 11, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • Demo, Featured Article, Firefox 4, Multi-touch • 16 comments

10. Fun With Fast JavaScript

    August 2, 2010 • by Christopher Blizzard • Demo, HTML5, JavaScript, JägerMonkey, Performance, TraceMonkey, Video • 3 comments