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  1. Using the Vibration API – Part of WebAPI

    • by Robert Nyman • WebAPI • 24 comments

    As part of Mozillas WebAPI effort, we have been working with bringing a Vibration API to all devices that support it. The idea with the Vibration API is to be able to give the user a notification, in a game or other use case, by Read more…

  2. Wiki Wednesday: January 25, 2012

    • by Eric Shepherd • Docs, Wiki Wednesday • No comments yet

    Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by Read more…

  3. Mozilla Vision 2012 day two – here come the web makers of tomorrow

    • by Chris Heilmann • Event • 1 comment

    One day after the conference part of Mozilla Vision 2012 volunteers, Mozilla staff and friends organised a “hackday” event in a burger cafe (of all places) in Tokyo. The twist: instead of catering to developer hackers the audience was web makers – and in this Read more…

  4. Starting 2012 with loads of doc updates

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, Sprints • 1 comment

    We’re aware of the problem on MDN in which error messages appear in place of code examples (and a few other places). This is due to a bug in the wiki platform software that causes some of its extensions to fail to load when a Read more…

  5. JavaScript on the server: Growing the Node.js Community

    • by Robert Nyman • JavaScript • 13 comments

    Cloud9 IDE and Mozilla have been working together ever since their Bespin and ACE projects joined forces. Both organizations are committed to the success of Node.js, Mozilla due to its history with Javascript and Cloud9 IDE as a core contributor to Node.js and provider of Read more…

  6. Firefox goes 2-digit, time to check your UA sniffing scripts

    • by Jean-Yves Perrier • Featured Article, Firefox 10 • 7 comments

    We all know it: UA-based browser detection is bad, the right way is feature-detection. Regardless, legacy code relies upon UA sniffing and may need to be updated for Firefox 10′s release. Even if it looks simple, UA parsing has proven to be a headache for Read more…

  7. Mozilla Vision 2012: The Future of HTML5 and Web Technologies

    • by Chris Heilmann • Drumbeat, Event, Gaming, HTML5 • 5 comments

    We are currently in Tokyo, Japan for the Mozilla Vision 2012 conference and hack day. For two days Mozilla Japan with friends from the other locations are putting up an amazing effort to encourage people to help us educate the next generation of web makers. Read more…

  8. Dev Derby for January – show us your best orientation!

    • by Robert Nyman • CSS, Dev Derby • 3 comments

    As you might know, each month we have a Dev Derby as part of Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), and each of them are focused on a certain technology where people can compete with their submissions. This month, the Dev Derby is about Orientation, and we Read more…

  9. Congratulations November Dev Derby Winners

    • by Havi Hoffman, and John Karahalis • Canvas, Dev Derby • 1 comment

    Canvas is a new HTML5 element which creates a digital “drawing board.” A web developer can use one of these drawing boards along with some JavaScript to create simple shapes, graphs, animations, interactive games, and more. Recently, eighteen creative minds showed us just how powerful Read more…

  10. How to get MDN swag (doc sprint January 20-21)

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN, Sprints • 2 comments

    It has been far too long since the last MDN online doc sprint. For those of you who have been asking me when the next sprint is (yes, there are a few), you need wait no longer. We’ll be holding a sprint to work on Read more…