Articles for December 2009
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the new about:hacks newsletter
Yesterday, we published the first issue of about:hacks, Mozilla’s newsletter for web developers. If you asked to receive news and updates from Mozilla in our November survey, it should be waiting for you in your inbox. About:hacks will be published monthly, and will include demos, tutorials, Firefox release information, the latest on web standards and […]
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autobuffering video in Firefox
John Gruber recently wrote up an article titled Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in the Browsers Which Support It He’s mostly upset that browsers don’t respect the autobuffer attribute. Or, really, that browsers autobuffer by default. Safari and Chrome do apparently autobuffer by default, but he incorrectly says that Firefox does […]
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interactive file uploads with Drag and Drop, FileAPI and XMLHttpRequest
In previous posts, we showed how to access a file through the input tag or through the Drag and Drop mechanism. In both cases, you can use XMLHttpRequest to upload the files and follow the upload progress. Demo If you’re running the latest beta of Firefox 3.6, check out our file upload demo. Uploading XMLHttpRequest […]
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file drag and drop in Firefox 3.6
In a previous post, we showed you how to upload several files using the input element. In Firefox 3.6, you can let your users drag and drop files directly into your web page, without going through the file picker. Demo If you’re running the latest Firefox 3.6 beta, check out our interactive demo of drag […]
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WebGL Draft Released Today
Even without a draft specification of WebGL in circulation, we’ve seen some promising 3D content using WebGL appear on the web, put together mainly through developer ingenuity and the fact that Firefox, Chromium, and WebKit are open source projects with early support for the technology. Today, the WebGL Working Group at Khronos released a provisional […]
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multiple file input in Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.6 supports multiple file input. This new capability allows you to get several files as input at once, using standard technologies. This is a big improvement, since you used to be constrained to one file at a time, or needed to use a third party (proprietary) application. This will be particularly useful, for example, […]
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Firefox 3.6 FileAPI demo: reading EXIF data from a local JPEG file
Paul Rouget has put together a great demo of the new FileAPI we’re including in Firefox 3.6. It lets you drag a JPG from the desktop into the browser that includes EXIF data and it can extract the GPS coordinates in the image and then load the location of where the photo was taken, entirely […]
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W3C FileAPI in Firefox 3.6
Often, web applications will prompt the user to select a file, typically to upload to a server. Unless the web application makes use of a plugin, file selection occurs through an HTML input element, of the sort <input type="file"/>. Firefox 3.6 now supports much of the W3C File API, which specifies the ability to asynchronously […]
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css backgrounds in Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.6 allows you to do more with CSS backgrounds: you can use gradients, set a background size, and specify multiple backgrounds. Custom Background Size In Firefox 3.6, you can specify the size of a background image to scale it as a percentage of the element’s size, or to a specific length, using -moz-background-size. -moz-background-size: […]
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WebGL goes mobile
Vlad was nice enough to put together a video of his recent work to bring WebGL to mobile phones. This demo was done on the first phone that supports Firefox, the Nokia N900. For more information about WebGL check back here or follow planet WebGL.
