Articles for March 2011
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Wiki Wednesday: March 30, 2011
Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by logging into the wiki and editing the articles directly, or […]
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The European MDN access snafu
Over the last couple of days, we had a problem come up that broke access to MDN documentation from Europe. I thought I’d share an explanation of what happened because it’s a slightly interesting story, and our European users deserve to know. A few days ago, we started having a round of persistent spamming, with […]
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Firefox 4 for Mobile: Demos!
The Release Candidate for Firefox 4 for mobile (Maemo and Android) is out. If you want to see a quick overview of Firefox for Mobile, look at Madhava’s post. Firefox 4 Desktop, Firefox 4 Mobile: same engine! And this is awesome! It means you will find the same feature in mobile and desktop: HTML5, CSS3 […]
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The story of an Audio & WebGL Demo: No Comply
The audio team is made up of a group Mozilla volunteers who developed the Audio API and, most recently, a new generation of WebGL demos. This is the story of the development of the No Comply demo. In the fall, after finishing Flight of the Navigator, our team of audio and WebGL hackers was looking […]
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Firefox 4 Demos: More 3D!
Firefox 4 is here! Yeah! And to celebrate the launch, we have released another round of demos on Web O’ Wonder, with 3 awesome WebGL demos! (This new round also introduces mobile-specific demos, see this dedicated blog post). WebGL: It’s 3D and Web Content together. Demo by Cédric Pinson and Guillaume Lecollinet. GlobeTweeter is a […]
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Help improve MDN docs: Sprint April 1-2
The last documentation sprint was so much fun, we couldn’t wait to do it again. So we’re holding another one next weekend, from April 1 at 14:00 UTC until April 2 at 23:59 UTC: This is a online sprint, meaning that people will participate from wherever they are, coordinating via IRC[1]. Please join us for […]
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Wiki Wednesday: March 23, 2011
Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by logging into the wiki and editing the articles directly, or […]
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Firebug 1.7 New Features
Firebug 1.7 with full support for Firefox 4 is out of the door and I can’t miss this opportunity to describe some of the features introduced in this release. For those who don’t follow Firebug blog and/or are not familiar with Firebug too much/not at all, let’s start with some links leading to sources where […]
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Firefox 4 Performance
Dave Mandelin from the JS team and Joe Drew from the Graphics team summarize the key performance improvements in Firefox 4. The web wants fast browsers. Cutting-edge HTML5 web pages play games, mash up and share maps, sound, and videos, show spreadsheets and presentations, and edit photos. Only a high-performance browser can do that. What […]
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Promoting the use of new web technologies in Lithuania
Last week around 2500 developers, designers, entrepreneurs and managers came to Vilnius, Lithuania to attend the fifth Login conference. Speakers included people from Nokia, Wired, Flattr.com (run by the founder of the Pirate Bay), Tate Modern and Amnesty international and the conference covered everything from viral video over web security and privacy up to bleeding […]
