Articles for August 2010
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Firefox 4: HTTP Strict Transport Security (force HTTPS)
This article is about a new HTTPS header: Strict-Transport-Security, which force a website to be fetched through HTTPS. This feature will be part of Firefox 4. How do you type URLs? Do you prefix them with http:// or https:// systematically? Or do you just type example.com and let your browser add http://, like most of […]
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Firefox 4: Drawing arbitrary elements as backgrounds with -moz-element
This is a guest post by Markus Stange. Markus usually works on the Firefox Mac theme implementation, but this time he went on a small side trip through the Gecko layout engine in order to implement -moz-element. In Firefox Beta 4 we’re introducing a new extension to the CSS background-image property: the ability to draw […]
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here – Experimenting With Multi-touch
The latest Firefox 4 Beta has just been released (get it here). This beta comes with hundreds of bug fixes, improvements and multi-touch support for Windows 7 (see the release notes here). This article is about multi-touch support. Felipe Gomes is working on bringing multi-touch support to web content. In this latest beta, we are […]
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Help us to make Firefox 4 better: How to open a bug
If you run Firefox Beta or Firefox nightlies, you will probably run into some issues. Reporting these bugs and crashes will help us to make sure the user experience is better for all Firefox 4 users. Marcia Knous is part of the Firefox QA team. Because reporting a good bug is not that easy but […]
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HTML5 video 'buffered' property available in Firefox 4
Support for the HTML5 video 'buffered' property has landed in Firefox, we can now accurately determine which time-segments of a video we can play and seek into without needing to pause playback to download more data.
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here – what's in for web developers?
The latest Firefox 4 Beta has just been released (get it here). This beta comes with hundreds of bug fixes, Firefox Sync and Firefox Panorama. Here is a quick overview of the new features for web developers. Firefox now supports the HTML5 video “buffered” property; HTML5 video “autobuffer” has been replaced with “preload”; An experimental […]
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More efficient Javascript animations with mozRequestAnimationFrame
This is a re-post from Robert O’Callahan’s blog. <b>mozRequestAnimationFrame</b> is an experimental API to make Javascript animations more efficient. We do not guarantee to support it forever, and I wouldn’t evangelize sites to depend on it. We’ve implemented it so that people can experiment with it and we can collect feedback. At the same time […]
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Introducing the new MDN website
This week, Mozilla unveiled the newly redesigned Mozilla Developer Network, the latest incarnation of MDC. The website has evolved over the years and we recently decided to change the name from Mozilla Developer Center to the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) to better reflect the developer segments that make up our community and provide a better […]
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Fun With Fast JavaScript
This post is by Vladimir Vukićević and is a re-post from his personal weblog. Fast JavaScript is a cornerstone of the modern web. In the past, application authors had to wait for browser developers to implement any complex functionality in the browser itself, so that they could access it from script code. Today, many of […]
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HTML5 Video preload attribute supported in Firefox 4, autobuffer attribute removed
This is a re-post from Chris Pearce’s blog. To comply with the HTML5 specification, we replaced the autobuffer attribute with the tri-state preload attribute. We encourage you to update your code. See the documention on MDC. Late last week I landed support on Firefox trunk for the HTML5 video ‘preload’ attribute. This replaces the ‘autobuffer’ […]
