Articles by Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
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Gaia, Mozilla's user interface for Boot to Gecko – all web technologies
On Monday we wrote about Boot to Gecko and its announcements and discussing how the Web is the Platform. Today we’ll look at Gaia, Mozilla’s user interface for Boot to Gecko, which is an extension of that.
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Editable box model, multiple selection, Sublime Text keys + much more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 31
A new set of the Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the Firefox 31 release in July. This release brings new tools, editor improvements, console and inspector features: Editable box model The Box Model tab in the […]
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Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 released
About 6 weeks ago, we wrote about the preview of Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 and now we’re happy to release it! New features In our preview coverage, we listed the new features for this version: Push to Device Rotation simulation Basic geolocation API simulation Manifest validation Stability fixes for installation and updates to apps Newer […]
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Matchstick Brings Firefox OS to Your HDTV: Be the First to get a Developer Stick
The first HDMI streaming stick powered by Firefox OS has arrived. It’s called Matchstick and we’re looking for your help to create apps for this new device. Background Matchstick stems from a group of coders that spent way too much time mired in the guts of platforms such as Boot to Gecko, XBMC, and Boxee. […]
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Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy
Passwordless is an authentication middleware for Node.js that improves security for your users while being fast and easy to deploy. The last months were very exciting for everyone interested in web security and privacy: Fantastic articles, discussions, and talks but also plenty of incidents that raised awareness. Most websites are, however, still stuck with the […]
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CSS source map support, network performance analysis & more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 29
Firefox 29 was just uplifted to the Aurora release channel. This means that it is time to report some of the major changes that you can expect to see inside of the Developer Tools for this release. Better Looking Tools In addition to new features, we have been updating the look and feel of our […]
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How fast is PDF.js?
Hi, my name is Thorben and I work at Opera Software in Oslo, not at Mozilla. So, how did I end up writing for Mozilla Hacks? Maybe you know that there is no default PDF viewer in the Opera Browser, something we would like to change. But how to include one? Buy it from Adobe […]
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jsDelivr – The advanced open source public CDN
This is a guest post by Dmitriy Akulov and his project jsDelivr. – Editor’s note. As a developer you are probably aware of Google Hosted Libraries. Google offers an easy and fast way to include 12 of the most popular js libraries in your websites. But what if you are a webmaster and you want […]
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Introducing the Firefox OS Boilerplate App
When coming to a new platform or context, it’s always good to get a peek at some code and examples how to make things work. With Firefox OS and app development, it’s just the web with a few additions. Before here at Mozilla Hacks, we’ve covered a few ways to get started with building apps […]
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WebIDE, Storage inspector, jQuery events, iframe switcher + more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 34
A new set of Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the Firefox 34 release in November. This release brings new tools (storage inspector, WebIDE), an updated profiler, and handy enhancements to the existing tools: WebIDE WebIDE, a […]