Articles for June 2011
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Firefox 5 is here
Today, three months after the release of Firefox 4, we release Firefox 5, thanks to our new development cycle. Developers will be able to create richer animations using CSS3 Animations. This release comes with various improvements, performance optimization and bug fixes. CSS3 Animations CSS Animations (check out the documentation) are a new way to create […]
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JSMad – a JavaScript MP3 decoder
It always amazes me just how fast modern browsers and their JavaScript engines are. And how creative people get when trying to make things work inside a browser instead of relying on a plugin that our end users would have to install (and more importantly constantly keep up to date). The latest thing that make […]
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A Wall Powered by EventSource and Server-Sent Events
EventSource landed in Aurora 6. It is a new and simplified way to open long-lived connections to a server, and let the browser create events as the server streams messages to the client. It is also available in Chrome and Opera and there are fallback solutions for other browsers. Creating a wall/feed for a social […]
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Dev Derby – a monthly competition of demos using open technologies
Starting from June, Mozilla runs a monthly competition to showcase newest web technologies. In an international competition individuals can submit demos that show the world just how much is possible using open and free technologies in a modern browser. The Mozilla Dev Derby happens every month and revolves around a certain technology. A panel of […]
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Add-on SDK and the beta of Add-on Builder now available!
Firefox offers users complete control over the look and functionality of their Web browser with a gallery of hundreds of thousands of add-ons. With the launch of Add-on SDK and Add-on Builder Beta, web developers need only knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS to create great add-ons for Firefox that are restartless by default. The […]
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Doom on the Web
Update: We had a doubt whether this port of the Open Source Doom respected its term of use. We decided to remove it from our Website before taking an informed and definitive decision. This is a guest post written by Alon Zakai. Alon is one of the Firefox Mobile developers, and in his spare time […]
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The <progress> element
The <progress> element just landed in Firefox Aurora (to be Firefox 6). As its name indicate, this element can be used to give visual clues of anything in progress on a Web page: a set of ressources being downloaded, a file being uploaded, a computing Web Worker, a WebGL scene being initialized… Following is a […]
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Cross-domain WebGL textures disabled in Firefox 5
In Firefox 5, it is no longer possible to use cross-domain elements as the source for WebGL textures. We made this change in response to security concerns around the possibility of cross domain information leakage. Unfortunately, that means that some WebGL-using pages are no longer working. We are working with the WebGL WG on a […]
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Rofox, a CSS3 Animations demo
Firefox 5 was released last week. This release comes with CSS3 Animations. Here is a demo made by Anthony Calzadilla. To illustrate what you can achieve with CSS3 Animations, we have been working on demo with Anthony Calzadilla (@acalzadilla), famous for his awesome Animation projects. Check out the demo on the Mozilla Demo Studio. And […]
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With the power of HTML5 – speaking at Converge SE in Columbia, SC
Last week the Converge SE conference in Columbia, South Carolina attracted about 400 designers, developers and product managers to attend workshops and hear keynotes about all that is new and great in web development. As you can see on the conference schedule the conference covered a lot of topics, ranging from building communities and providing […]
