Articles for October 2009
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Web Open Font Format for Firefox 3.6
This article was written by John Daggett. John is a Mozilla contributor and has been working hard with font creators and web developers to improve the state of fonts on the web. This article is a high-level overview of whats different and shows some examples of WOFF in use. A full list of other supporting […]
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after Firefox 3.6 – new font control features for designers
Note: the discussion below applies to work in progress that might show up in Firefox 3.7. It does not describe features in Firefox 3.6. This post is from Jonathan Kew and John Daggett. He’s supplied a 5 minute video that shows some of the features on the fly. If you’re a total font nerd and […]
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new device API for Firefox 3.6: orientation
One new feature that we’re including as part of Firefox 3.6 is support for web pages to access machine orientation information if it’s available. As you can see from the demo above you can use it to figure out if the machine is moving and what direction it’s facing. Using the API is very simple. […]
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help build the mozilla developer network
Help us build the Mozilla Developer Network Take the survey now. At Mozilla we’ve been talking recently about how important the web has become to everything around us. The web – and the Internet it’s built on – has become the defining computing platform for this century. And most of that has happened because of […]
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a multi-touch drawing demo for Firefox 3.7
Firefox Multitouch at MozChile – Drawing Canvas Experiment from Marcio Galli on Vimeo. A couple of months ago we featured a video that had some examples of multi-touch working in Firefox. At a recent event in South America, Marcio Galli put together a quick and fun drawing program based on the multi-touch code that we’ll […]
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 now available – what's new for web developers
Firefox 3.6b1 is now available for download. As usual, this is a beta release so the usual warnings about eating your data and burning your house down apply. If you download and run this beta you will get updates as we make them available – once every 1-2 weeks or so. To keep up with […]
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font_dragr: a drag and drop preview tool for fonts
This demo is from our good friend Ryan Seddon who came up with a demo that seems deeply appropriate for this week, given our focus on the future of fonts on the web. If you’ve ever been editing a page and wanted to know what a particular font looked like without having to upload files […]
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mitigating attacks with content security policy
Firefox support for Content Security Policy (CSP) has been in the news and is now available in test builds for web developers to try. Support for CSP isn’t slated for Firefox 3.6 but is likely to be included in the release after 3.6, mostly likely called 3.7. This post is targeted at web developers and […]
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WebGL in the wild
This is a guest post by David Humphrey and was originally posted in his weblog. David is a professor at Seneca College in Toronto where he teaches and researches open source development and leads Mozilla’s education project. David’s been involved with WebGL well before it became WebGL and was just a Firefox extension. It’s nice […]
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making waves with HTML5
Thomas Saunders of modern-carpentry has a very nice HTML5 demo, making waves with html5, showcasing the power of Canvas as well as Processing.js. modern carpentry rides the html5 canvas wave Thomas says: I was challenged at work to create something that “floats naturally”. After a while of confusion in my pursuit of “natural floating” or […]
