Articles for December 2010
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here, with WebGL
The new Firefox 4 Beta is here, and comes with WebGL activated by default. You can download this new beta here: http://firefox.com/beta. Flight of the Navigator is a WebGL + Audio API demo developed by a team of Mozilla volunteers. You can see the demo online here (you need a WebGL compatible browser). More information […]
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A call for quality HTML5 demo markup
HTML5 is a necessary evolution to make the web better. Before the HTML5 specs were created we used (and still use) a hacked together bunch of systems meant for describing and linking documents to create applications. We use generic elements to simulate rich interaction modules used in desktop development and we make assumptions as to […]
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Spirit of Indiana (Jones) – syncing HTML5 Video with Maps
I’ve always been a big fan of the travel/flight sequences in the Indiana Jones movies and judging by the amount of copy attempts on YouTube I am not alone in this. As I don’t own any video editing software I thought it should be possible to create the same effect with web technologies and Google […]
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Enter the Firefox Mobile Add-ons Cup
This is a cross-post from the mobile team to invite web developers interested in mobile or add-ons to participate in the Mobile Add-ons Cup. The Firefox Mobile Add-ons Cup has arrived! Develop a mobile add-on for Firefox and showcase your innovation to millions of mobile users. We’re looking for compatible and innovative add-ons to extend […]
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WebSocket disabled in Firefox 4
Recent discoveries found that the protocol that Websocket works with is vulnerable to attacks. Adam Barth demonstrated some serious attacks against the protocol that could be used by an attacker to poison caches that sit in between the browser and the Internet. This is a serious threat to the Internet and Websocket and not a […]
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Delivering the good message of local storage
As you might know there are an incredible amount of advent calendar blogs out at the moment each delivering one cool article for each day of December until Christmas. Today (6/12/11) two calendar blogs delivered an article of mine talking about the benefits of using local storage in browsers and how to implement it. You […]
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Add-on Con 2010
This is a cross-post from Dan Horner of our Add-ons team, who would like to invite any web developers interested in Add-ons and browser extensions in general to Add-on Con. Hi All – wanted to use my first post on the Mozilla Developer Network blog to remind you all about Add-on Con which is taking […]
