Articles
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Introducing WebAPI
Mozilla would like to introduce WebAPI with the goal to provide a basic HTML5 phone experience within 3 to 6 months.
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Beyond HTML5: Database APIs and the Road to IndexedDB
IndexedDB is an evolving web standard for the storage of significant amounts of structured data in the browser and for high performance searches on this data using indexes. Mozilla has submitted substantial technical feedback on the specification, and we plan to implement it in Firefox 4. We spoke to prominent web developers about evolving an […]
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Mozilla Introduces the First Browser Built For Developers: Firefox Developer Edition
Developers are critical to the continued success of the Web. The content and apps they create compel us to come back to the Web every day, whether on a computer or mobile phone. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox, we’re excited to unveil Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser created specifically for developers. […]
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Firefox 4: CSS3 calc()
This article describes the CSS3 calc() value. This feature hasn’t landed yet in any Firefox tree but work to implement it is underway. Firefox will support the CSS calc() value, which lets you compute a length value using an arithmetic expression. This means you can use it to define the sizes of divs, the values […]
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Announcing the Developer Roadshow Series
We’re bringing Mozilla’s Developer Roadshow to a city near you! Join us for a meetup-style, Mozilla-focused event series for people who build the Web. Hear from expert speakers highlighting the latest and best in Mozilla and Firefox technologies. See you on the road!
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Firefox 4 Beta 9 – a huge pile of awesome
Hello, and welcome to the post for Firefox 4 beta 9. If you’re reading this then you’re interested in what we’ve got coming down the pipe for the latest beta for the wonderful browser known as Firefox 4. We’re starting to reach the end of our development cycle for the next release of Firefox and […]
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Tilt: Visualize your Web page in 3D
Tilt is a Firefox extension that lets you visualize any web page DOM tree in 3D. It is being developed by Victor Porof (3D developer responsible with the Firefox extension itself), along with Cedric Vivier (creating a WebGL optimized equivalent to the privileged canvas.drawWindow, see #653656) and Rob Campbell (who first thought about creating a […]
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New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
Firefox 16, now on the Beta channel, has a fantastic feature that was mentioned briefly in the Aurora 16 blog post and first introduced in a separate post by Joe Walker, the feature’s creator. We’ve devoted a sizable portion of the new Developer Toolbar to the “command line”, which you may sometimes see us call […]
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The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model
This article about the Flexible Box Layout was written by Jérémie Patonnier, French open Web enthusiast. The flexible box model CSS 3 introduces a brand new box model in addition of the traditional box model from CSS 1 and 2. The flexible box model determines the way boxes are distributed inside other boxes and the […]
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Mozilla's Boot to Gecko – The Web is the Platform
Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko (B2G) is about building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web. It aims at making web technologies the number one choice for applications on desktop and mobile, and we believe it can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development. And we have made some exciting progress that we want […]