Articles for September 2011
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Firefox 7 is lean and fast
Based on a blog post originally posted here by Nicholas Nethercote, Firefox Developer. tl;dr Firefox 7 now uses much less memory than previous versions: often 20% to 30% less, and sometimes as much as 50% less. This means that Firefox and the websites you use will be snappier, more responsive, and suffer fewer pauses. It […]
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Introducing Aurora 9
We have just released Aurora 9 (download and test Aurora 9), which is planned to be the upcoming Firefox 9. In it, we have a number of new things that we hope will get you excited!
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What's new for Web Developers in Firefox 7
Today we’re releasing Firefox Update 7. This update contains work that’s been stabilizing over the last 3 months and there are quite a few interesting things to talk about. To be clear, this is not the canonical list of changes, just highlights. As always, we’ve created a page to track the changes that web developers […]
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Firefox 7: Telemetry
Based on a blog post originally posted here by Taras Glek, Firefox Developer. Firefox 7 marks a turning point in how we measure Firefox performance. Traditionally we measured Firefox performance on individual developer machines and our build & release infrastructure. However it turns out synthetic benchmarks do not correspond to real-world Firefox usage: it is […]
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Mozilla demoparty winners announced
The Demoparty Online Competition 2011 is part of the Mozilla Labs Demoparty Project, an initiative to foster artful exploration of open web technologies. We asked people from the demo scene to have a go at web technologies and (with WebGL being the absolute winner of course) managed to collect over 100 submissions. Now the judges […]
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Detecting and generating CSS animations in JavaScript
When writing of the hypnotic spiral demo the issue appeared that I wanted to use CSS animation when possible but have a fallback to rotate an element. As I didn’t want to rely on CSS animation I also considered it pointless to write it by hand but instead create it with JavaScript when the browser […]
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Video and slides from Mozillas CSS3 & HTML5 talk at the Frontend Conference in Zurich
I’m currently attending the Frontend Conference in Zurich, Switzerland and this morning I gave a presentation about mobile possibilities offered through CSS3 and HTML5.
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MDN vs. MSDN: Mozilla FTW
MindTouch, the developer of the software that powers the Mozilla Developer Network‘s documentation center, spent this week sponsoring a competitive battle, pitting MDN up against the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site in the areas of user experience, social features, engagement, and findability. They offered their thoughts on the comparison between the two developer network sites […]
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Taking steps() with CSS animations
CSS animations are hot and a lot of experimentation is going on. A cool new feature of animations is the steps() option which allows you to cut an animation into steps instead of a transition from one state to another in one go. While this seems counterproductive on first glance there is a lot you […]
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Webinar: Geolocation with Remy Sharp
Update 2011-09-09: Oh noes! We had a double dose of technical difficulties during this webinar. The BigBlueButton server froze and required a couple of reboots to get it working. It worked fine for the remainder of the session. Thanks to those who stuck around, and apologies to everyone for the problem. On top of that, […]
