Articles for August 2009
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a 20 second survey to help improve hacks.mozilla.org
I asked this on the mozhacks twitter account earlier today but I’d like to get more feedback: what’s your single favorite thing about hacks.mozilla.org? The survey is totally anonymous and takes 20 seconds or so. It’s limited, much like twitter, to a very short response. If you have ideas on improvement there’s room for that […]
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bringing multi-touch to Firefox and the web
The ever-energetic Felipe Gomes was nice enough to intern with Mozilla this summer in between busy semesters in Brazil. During that time he’s been working on multi-touch support for Firefox on Windows 7. A nice result of that work is that he’s also found ways to bring multi-touch support to the web. He’s made a […]
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experimenting with HTML5 video at the BBC
The BBC has a post up describing an experiment that they have put together that uses HTML5 video that works in Firefox 3.5 and Safari. The demo uses jQuery and drives a simple carousel that shows the current chapter as the video plays. It also shows subtitles as the video plays. One really great, and […]
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Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 – web developer changes
As covered on the Mozilla Developer Center, Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 is now available for download. And we’ve been busy since Firefox 3.5. Web developers will be interested in a number of features that are new in Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1: The TraceMonkey JavaScript engine has continued to get faster. We’ve made a huge number […]
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9elements – HTML5 Canvas Experiment
The developers over at 9elements have done a mesmerizing experiment with Canvas and the audio support in HTML5. HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment Please comment on their cool experiment at their blog: HTML5 Canvas Experiment.