Articles for August 2011
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Aurora 8 is here
Today we release Aurora Update 8. We’ve got even more HTML5 support, support for cross-origin textures in WebGL, support for insertAdjacentHTML() and reduced resource requirements for media elements. Cross-origin WebGL textures We disabled support for cross-origin textures in Firefox 5 due to security concerns. You can now use cross-origin textures in Aurora Update 8, although […]
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, August 18th 2011
It’s Thursday, folks, and you know what that means, right? It’s time for Mozilla Hacks Weekly, with recommended reading from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Team!
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Wiki Wednesday: August 17, 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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speak.js: Text-to-Speech on the Web
Text-to-Speech (TTS) can make content more accessible, but there is so far no simple and universal way to do that on the web. One possible approach is shown in this demo, which is powered by speak.js, a new 100% pure JavaScript/HTML5 TTS implementation. speak.js is a port of eSpeak, an open source speech synthesizer, from […]
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Firefox 6 is here
What’s new in Firefox 6? The most notable addition to this new release are the <progress> element, touch events, Server-Sent Events as well as the return of WebSockets. The <progress> element This element can be used to give a visual cue of something in progress in the page. System progress bars are being used, which […]
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Overview and demos of HTML5 Forms input types, attributes and elements
One of the major parts of HTML5 is offering new semantics for HTML code and also to ease the most common tasks for web developers and end users alike. Making forms easier and better is one of those main goals. With HTML5 Forms we get things like: New input types New attributes New elements In […]
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MDN docs get more sprint love
This past weekend, at least 20 people around the globe spent time improving the docs on Mozilla Developer Network. While this was a “virtual” sprint with no centralized gathering, we succeeded in having a few local meet-ups of sprinters, in Taiwan, California, and Texas. Jeremie Patonnier added pages for 35(!) SVG interfaces to the DOM […]
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, August 11th 2011
It’s time again for the link picks of the week from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Team!
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Wiki Wednesday: August 10, 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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Webinar: History API with Syd Lawrence
Update 2011-08-19: We had intended to record this webinar and make it available for those who couldn’t attend. Due to a convergence of technical difficulties, the recording was not successful. Apologies for failing on that promise. You can see Syd’s slides and a recording of a similar talk Syd gave at the Heart & Sole […]
