Articles for December 2011
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Introducing Aurora 11 with tons of new features and improvements
We have now released Aurora 11, soon to become Firefox 11, and wanted to cover all the the things we have improved in this version!
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New Developer Tools in Firefox 11 Aurora
More Goodies for the Holidays! Last month, I wrote a post for Hacks introducing the new tools in Firefox 10 Aurora. Those features have now moved to beta. Thanks for all of the great feedback so far! In a dramatic turn at the end of that blog post, I foreshadowed that we had “more to […]
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Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview and documentation are here!
The Mozilla Labs Apps project The Mozilla Labs Apps project enters a new phase with today’s launch of the Apps Developer Preview and App Development documentation in the Apps Developer Community on MDN. The tools and resources in the MDN Apps Developer Community documentation enable developers to create rich, cross-platform and cross-device app experiences […]
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Faster Canvas Pixel Manipulation with Typed Arrays
Edit: See the section about Endiannes. Typed Arrays can significantly increase the pixel manipulation performance of your HTML5 2D canvas Web apps. This is of particular importance to developers looking to use HTML5 for making browser-based games. This is a guest post by Andrew J. Baker. Andrew is a professional software engineer currently working for […]
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Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project
In this post I give a quick overview of the Mozilla Labs Apps project and how it and the other technologies at Mozilla relate to gaming. We really are at a point where amazing games can be created on the Web with nothing but open technologies. A few days ago we launched the developer preview […]
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Paving the way for open games on the Web with the Gamepad and Mouse Lock APIs
In this post I’ll be introducing the Gamepad and Mouse Lock APIs, two additions to Firefox that are paving the way for high quality games on the Web.
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New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox
As explained in this blog post by Jared Wein of the Firefox team there are quite a few new features in Firefox when it comes to playing HTML5 video. As an Aurora user, I am most excited about the option to go full-screen, the ability to overlay video statistics and to save a snapshot of […]
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, December 8th 2011
Thursday is here, and just like every week when that day comes, we at Mozilla want to share some good reading with you.
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Screencast: 3D CSS rollovers and 3D CSS tester
CSS 3D transforms as supported in the latest Aurora allow us to do some nice effects that in the past were only possible in Flash or with a lot of trickery using skewing and filters. I was asked to show a small demo the other day and thought it would be fun to spice up […]
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Moving browsers and the web forward (video)
A few days ago I was asked to deliver the first talk of the amazing Beyond Tellerand conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. The talk Breaking the barriers – moving browsers and the web forward introduced a lot of new ideas and technologies that are worked on my Mozilla and others to make the web of the […]
