Articles for November 2011
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Making the wait for the holidays easier – the MDN advent calendar
Tomorrow we will release the MDN advent calendar at http://thewebrocks.com/calendar with a daily link on a web technology product, a MDN wiki page or a great demo collected by us over the last few days. You can get a preview of how the calendar will look and work here: As an extra bonus, we thought […]
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Congrats to our October Dev Derby winners!
Responsive design is more important than ever as people experience the Web on a variety of devices. Web developers can now take advantage of CSS Media Queries to build sites and applications that can be viewed on different screen sizes. So we decided to focus on that for the October Dev Derby. For this challenge, […]
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People of HTML5: Joe Lambert unshredding images in Canvas
Today we have a quickie for you: Joe Lambert, a web developer from Southampton, England working for Rareloop took on the Instagram engineering challenge of un-shredding a shredded image but instead of using server-side code, he used HTML5 canvas. Here’s a screencast of his solution to the problem: And here we are in a quick […]
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Firefox – tons of tools for web developers!
One of the goals of Firefox have always been to make the lives of web developers as easy and productive as possible, by providing tools and a very extensible web browser to enable people to create amazing things. The idea here is to list a lot of the tools and options available to you as […]
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Luke Crouch on: HTML5 – code for all the platforms
Back in October, Luke Crouch, one of the web developers working on the Mozilla Developer Network went to Techfest in Tulsa, Oklahoma to tell people all about HTML5. You can see his slides with his voiceover at Usergroup.tv: Luke gave an overview on the history of HTML5 vs. XHTML and the approaches of the W3C […]
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State of the docs, November 23, 2011
This is the second in a series of posts about new or recently improved content or infrastructure on MDN. This post was slightly delayed by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday (apologies). Web standards docs New pages! As the result of a discussion on the mozilla.dev.platform forum, Boris Zbarsky wrote an article on Writing forward-compatible websites, with […]
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Mozilla hacks Weekly, November 24th 2011
It’s Thursday, folks, and it means our Developer Engagement Team at Mozilla has some reading tips for you!
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HTML5 context menus in Firefox (Screencast and Code)
You may not know it, but the HTML5 specifications go beyond what we put in the pages and also define how parts of the browser should become available to developers with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. One of these parts of the specs are context menus, or “right click menus”. Using HTML5 and a menu element […]
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Webinar: IndexedDB with Jonas Sicking
Update 2011-12-20: The video recording of this webinar is now available: IndexedDB is the emerging standard for structured client-side data storage. The IndexedDB standard is supported by current versions of Firefox and Chrome, and support for it is expected in Internet Explorer 10. With this growing maturity and support, it’s time to start experimenting with […]
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, November 17th 2011
The week is closing to an end, and since you are perhaps winding down a little, why not check some reading tips from the Developer Engagement Team at Mozilla?
