Articles for April 2011
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Firefox Aurora: Playing With Upcoming Features is Now Safe
Firefox Aurora is a preview of the next version of Firefox, released every six weeks. It provides a safe way to play with the latest Web technologies the Mozilla team is working on. What is Aurora? Aurora is a new preview version that fits between the Nightly builds and Betas: Firefox Nightly (firefox.com/channel) is released […]
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Using client-side storage, today.
I recently tried to store locally the content of a form to make it resilient to inadvertent tab closing and crashes. Here is what I learned about the different ways to achieve client-side storage. Cookies can crumble Cookies are not a valid storage mean, as their size is limited to roughly 4000 characters (4KB) and […]
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How to resume a paused or broken file upload
This is a guest post written by Simon Speich. Simon is a web developer, believer in web standards and a lover of Mozilla since Mozilla 0.8 (!). Today, Simon is experimenting with the File API and the new Slice() method introduced in Firefox 4. Here is how he implements a resume upload feature in a […]
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Fun with new technologies at the Firefox 4 launch party in London
For the Firefox 4 launch party in London, England we wanted to show off to the audience why it is such a big thing that we are moving leaps and bounds in the browser market. Here are the slides and notes explaining just how much fun we can have as developers these days if we […]
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Wiki Wednesday: April 6, 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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Wiki Wednesday: April 20, 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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Accessibility and web innovation – a constant struggle
I just came back from a small “accessibility tour” giving a talk about accessibility and web innovation in Stockholm, Sweden at Funkas Tillgänglighetsdagar and then in Paris at the W3Cafe meetup. In essence what I was musing about is that there is still a massive disconnect between accessibility and the development world. Accessibility is not […]
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Another successful MDN doc sprint
While this weekend’s documentation sprint was smaller than the previous one, it represented significant steps toward achieving the goal of making Mozilla Developer Network a comprehensive, usable, and accurate resource for everyone developing for the web. Eric Shepherd created and refined (and the rest of us began implementing) a format and related templates for browser […]
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MarbleRun, an HTML5 Game
Take the HTML5 Canvas element, a Javascript library to do the physics (box2d), add a nice design, a social touch, and you have an awesome HTML5 Game called MarbleRun! MarbleRun was the winner of the last Mozilla Game On Challenge, among other exciting HTML5 games (check them out), and had been added to Web O’ […]
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Wiki Wednesday: April 27, 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 […]
