1. color correction for images in Firefox 3.5

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, CSS, Feature, Firefox 3.5, Images • 156 comments

    Back in Firefox 3, we introduced support for color profiles in tagged images, but it was disabled by default. In Firefox 3.5 we were able to make the color correction process about 5x faster than it was in Firefox 3 so we’ve enabled support for Read more…

  2. an update on open video codecs and quality

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Video • 170 comments

    Two days ago we posted a comparison by Greg Maxwell of low and medium resolution YouTube videos vs. Theora counterparts at the same bit rates. The result in that test was that Theora did much better at the low bit rate and more or less Read more…

  3. audio player – HTML5 style

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, Audio, Canvas, CSS, Demo, JavaScript, SVG • 33 comments

  4. better security and performance with native JSON

    • by Arun Ranganathan • 35 Days, Feature, Firefox 3.5, JavaScript • 6 comments

    The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) mechanism for representing data has rapidly become an indispensable part of the web developer’s toolkit, allowing JavaScript applications to obtain and parse data intuitively, within scripts, with lightweight data encapsulation. Firefox 3.5 includes support for JSON natively by exposing a Read more…

  5. 3D transforms in Firefox 3.5 – the isocube

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, CSS, Demo, Firefox 3.5, Video • 51 comments

  6. a short introduction to media queries in Firefox 3.5

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, CSS, Feature, Firefox 3.5 • 13 comments

    This post is by Eric Shepherd, who leads Mozilla’s documentation project at the Mozilla Developer Center. In this day and age, it’s important for web content to support rendering on an increasingly wide variety of devices. Not only do users expect to use your content Read more…

  7. open video codecs and quality

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Audio, Firefox 3.5, Video • 27 comments

    This is a re-post (with permission) of a post that Greg Maxwell wrote in response to a comment by Chris DiBona from Google on a whatwg mailing list. The codecs being discussed are the same ones we’ll be including in Firefox 3.5 and are also Read more…

  8. web fonts and css features – a simple demonstration

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, @font-face, CSS, Demo, Firefox 3.5 • 21 comments

  9. DOM selectors API in Firefox 3.5

    • by John Resig • 35 Days, DOM, Feature, Firefox 3.5, JavaScript • 18 comments

    The Selectors API recommendation, published by the W3C, is a relatively new effort that gives JavaScript developers the ability to find DOM elements on a page using CSS selectors. This single API takes the complicated process of traversing and selecting elements from the DOM and Read more…

  10. geolocation with open street maps

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, Demo, Firefox 3.5, Geolocation • 33 comments