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1. About:hacks newsletter – issue 2

   February 8, 2010 • by Alix Franquet • MDN, about:hacks • No comments yet

   Last week we sent out the second issue of about:hacks, Mozilla’s newsletter for web developers. Here are highlights from the topics covered in this new issue: Firefox 3.6 released: what’s new, how to give feedback Firefox for the Nokia N900 with Weave Sync released Developer Tools: Firebug 1.5 Demos: Read more…

2. Firefox 3.6 feedback

   February 4, 2010 • by Alix Franquet • Firefox 3.6 • 9 comments

   Firefox 3.6 was released on Jan 21st and has already been downloaded more than 35 million times! It features a faster JavaScript engine, faster DOM performance and a bunch of new HTML5 features. Highlights for web developers include support for the WOFF font format, new Read more…

3. an HTML5 offline image editor and uploader application HTML5

   February 2, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • Drag and Drop, Featured Demo, FileAPI, Firefox 3.6, HTML5, Offline, XMLHttpRequest • 24 comments

4. ClassList in Firefox 3.6

   January 29, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • Firefox 3.6, HTML5, JavaScript • 12 comments

   This article was writt by Anthony Ricaud, French OpenWeb enthusiast. Why you need classList A dynamic web application usually needs visual feedback from its inner mechanism or needs to display different visual elements based on users’ actions. To change the user interface easily, you can add/remove/edit elements through Read more…

5. industry support for WOFF and Firefox 3.6

   January 21, 2010 • by Christopher Blizzard • Firefox 3.6 • 5 comments

   Today we announced the release of Firefox 3.6 and users are starting to upgrade. One of the more important features we included for developers was support for a new font standard called WOFF. WOFF has received wide support from the type community and we’re starting Read more…

6. Firefox 3.6 is here!

   January 21, 2010 • by Paul Rouget and Jay Patel • Featured Article, Firefox 3.6 • 19 comments

   Firefox 3.6 has some cool consumer facing features like Personas and a better Plug-in Updater, but developers have a lot to be excited about too.  Developers will appreciate the increased stability, especially the work done to prevent crashes with third party software.  There are also Read more…

7. Firebug 1.5: a closer look

   January 20, 2010 • by Alix Franquet • Firebug • 13 comments

   Firebug 1.5 was released yesterday on addons.mozilla.org, where you can now download it. It’s compatible with the upcoming Firefox 3.6. If you’d like to take a more in-depth look at what’s new in Firebug 1.5, here’s a series of articles written by Firebug contributor Jan Odvarko Read more…

8. Firebug 1.5 released!

   January 19, 2010 • by Alix Franquet • Featured Article, Firebug • 24 comments

   Editor’s note: today the Firebug team released Firebug 1.5. Check out Rob Campbell’s announcement reposted below. I am very happy to be able to announce the release of Firebug 1.5.0 on addons.mozilla.org. This release represents a significant effort by the Firebug Working Group which saw the Read more…

9. JavaScript speedups in Firefox 3.6

   January 13, 2010 • by Alix Franquet • Featured Article, Firefox, Firefox 3.6, JavaScript, TraceMonkey • 69 comments

   This post was written by David Mandelin who works on Mozilla’s JavaScript team. Firefox 3.5 introduced TraceMonkey, our new JavaScript engine that traces loops and JIT compiles them to native (x86/ARM) code. Many JavaScript programs ran 3-4x faster in TraceMonkey compared to Firefox 3. (See our Read more…

10. offline web applications

    January 7, 2010 • by Paul Rouget • Featured Demo, Firefox, Mobile, Offline • 14 comments