Articles for November 2009
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building beautiful buttons with css gradients
A special thanks to Ryan Doherty for building this demo and making it easy for me to turn it into a tutorial. In this demo we’ll walk through a simple use case for the new gradient capabilities coming in Firefox 3.6 (see related article). We’ll build a nice-looking embossed and beveled button using gradients and […]
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css gradients in Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.6 includes many CSS improvements. In this post we’re going to show you how to use CSS gradients. If you are running the latest beta of Firefox 3.6, you should check out our interactive demo and take a look at the corresponding code. Use the radio buttons to switch different style options on or […]
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web developer survey: 5,000+ responses from 119 countries!
A few weeks ago, we launched a new survey for Web developers. We wanted to learn more about what you are interested in to build the Mozilla Developer Network tailored to your needs. Thanks to your help in spreading the word about the survey, we surpassed our goal of 5,000 responses! The survey is now […]
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what's new in Firebug 1.5?
This is a re-post from Rob Cambell’s personal weblog. Firebug 1.5 is the first release that will work with the upcoming Firefox 3.6 and also also works with Firefox 3.5. It’s currently in beta and will be available before the release of Firefox 3.6. As of this minute, Firebug 1.5 is sitting comfortably in its […]
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a proposal: resource packages to improve performance
A short post on this topic. Alexander Limi has a post describing a simple way that web sites could improve their performance: by putting images, css and other static resources in a .zip file for downloading. He’s asking for feedback on the topic. If the feedback is good we’re likely to try and get this […]
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web developer survey update – help wanted!
Two weeks ago we announced the launch of the Mozilla Developer Network. We also asked for your help through this short survey for Web developers. The questions were meant to understand who you are, what you’re interested in, and what resources would be most useful to you on MDN. We’re happy to report that we […]
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5 years of Firefox
Firefox is five years old. We thought that we would celebrate that by talking about how the web has changed over the last five years and Firefox’s role in those changes. Where We’re At 2009 has been an interesting year. We’re at a crossroads for the Internet. In the next 12 months or so we’re […]
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two important api changes – CSS gradients and the media load event
Robert O’Callahan has been posting updates in his weblog about changes that we’re going to be making that are web-facing. It’s worth summarizing two here for web developers. Removing the media element ‘load’ event. Yesterday I checked in a patch that removes support for the ‘load’ event on <video> and <audio> elements. We simply never […]
