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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, August 11th 2011

By Robin Hawkes

Posted on August 11, 2011 in Mozilla Hacks Weekly

It’s time again for the link picks of the week from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Team!

Robert has passed on the baton this week and it’s now my turn (yes, another Rob) to bring you our list of links for this week. Like Robert, I find these link posts fantastic as it’s massively interesting to see what the other members of the Developer Engagement team are inspired by each week.

As always, if you have any tips for us on what to read, or thoughts on our links this week, please don’t hesitate to write a comment below!

Weekly links August 11th 2011

The links we have chosen this week are:

Christian Heilmann

A picture of Christian Heilmann JSManipulate is a jQuery library to create image effects dynamically.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Christian, he’s available on Twitter as @codepo8.

Janet Swisher

A picture of Janet Swisher Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Janet, she’s available on Twitter as @jmswisher.

Jeff Griffiths

A picture of Jeff Griffiths Mozilla and Google collaborate on Web Apps (aka Web Intents), a new in-browser technology for allowing Web sites access to off-site apis in a secure and standardized way.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Jeff, he’s available on Twitter as @canuckistani.

John Karahalis

A picture of John Karahalis The alternate net we need by Eben Moglen. In this talk, Moglen describes what he thinks is wrong with the Internet and what we can do to fix it. Not everyone will agree with his positions (I disagree with some), but almost everyone will feel inspired and empowered by them.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with John, he’s available on Twitter as @openjck.

Louis-Rémi Babe

A picture of Louis-Rémi Babe HTML5 Boilerplate 2.0 is out. Although this boilerplate is often overkill for my small experimentations, the source code of this community driven effort is a must read, should you start building a serious website.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Louis-Rémi, he’s available on Twitter as @Louis_Remi.

Rob Hawkes

A picture of Rob Hawkes 10K Apart is an annual competition in which the aim is to create an awesome Web app using the latest technologies in under 10KB of code (10,240 bytes to be exact).

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Rob, he’s available on Twitter as @robhawkes.

Robert Nyman

A picture of Robert Nyman Cutter.js – Truncate HTML code to limit its length by number of words without losing markup.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Robert, he’s available on Twitter as @robertnyman.

Tristan Nitot

A picture of Tristan Nitot Another post by Mitchell Baker, who’s addressing the importance of Gecko, Mozilla’s rendering engine, when it comes to Mozilla’s strategy. Extending our reach – let’s talk Gecko. The post is followed by another one, Many Layers of User Sovereignty.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Tristan, he’s available on Twitter as @nitot.

About Robin Hawkes

Robin thrives on solving problems through code. He's a Digital Tinkerer, Head of Developer Relations at Pusher, former Evangelist at Mozilla, book author, and a Brit.

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One comment

  1. Ryan

    I have to say I think my favorite out of all these was Janet’s link. I am a beginner designer (even though I’ve been doing this for around 4 years now) and I’ve been keeping my website widths at a fixed size and it would look the same on every screen size. This has given me a new look on how to standardize my sites and make them more modern. Thanks!

    August 12th, 2011 at 06:50

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