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  1. A Social-aware Dashboard Experience with Gecko in Walls

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    This article covers a Web project that rethinks how TV appliances can be used in public spaces for real-time content and interaction with social networks. Tela Social is a powered by Mozilla system application that runs in Linux appliances and creates a visual experience that Read more…

  2. Localize Your Node.js Service, part 1 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 9

    • by and • A Node.JS Holiday Season, Node.js • 2 comments

    This is episode 9, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Now it’s time to delve into localization! Did you know that Mozilla’s products and services are localized into into as many as 90 languages? The Read more…

  3. Serving Backbone for Robots & Legacy Browsers

    • by and • JavaScript, Node.js • 5 comments

    I like the Single Page Application model and Backbone.js, because I get it. As a former Java developer, I am used to object oriented coding and events for messaging. Within our HTML5 consultancy, SC5, Backbone has become almost a synonym for single page applications, and Read more…

  4. Gameleon and the map editor – a WebFWD project

    • by and • Games, WebFWD • 2 comments

    More than 9 months ago, we were working on a web game, having all the nice HTML5 stuff like Canvas, WebSocket, CSS3. We were playing a lot with experimental code in NodeJS and Redis. We had all the nice scripts and plugins and quite a Read more…

  5. WebRTC Data Channels for Great Multiplayer

    • by and • Games, HTML5, WebRTC • 5 comments

    WebRTC is getting great press lately for it’s amazing applications in voice and video communication. But did you know that WebRTC also has support for peer-to-peer data? Below I’ll talk about the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of data channels, and then I’ll show you how we’re Read more…

  6. How to install packaged apps in Firefox OS – options and tools

    • by , , and • Featured Article, Firefox OS • 1 comment

    I thought this would be a good time to show the options for developers how to install packaged apps, and as an extension to that, installing them on an actual Firefox OS device (more on Open Web apps, if it’s new to you). Why a Read more…

  7. Notes on developing an API – Mobozi, a WebFWD project

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    HTML5 has made it easy to do a lot of really cool stuff on the mobile web, but one thing that is still pretty difficult is dealing with photos. Android has supported access to the device camera via the File API since version 3.0 and Read more…

  8. Adding cursor swipe to the Firefox OS keyboard

    • by and • Featured Article, Firefox OS, JavaScript • 14 comments

    In this article we will take a look at how to approach adding features to a core component in the system such as the input keyboard. It turns out it is pretty easy! Before we start, take a look at this concept video from Daniel Read more…

  9. Making WebRTC Simple with conversat.io

    • by and • Featured Article, WebRTC • 27 comments

    WebRTC is awesome, but it’s a bit unapproachable. Last week, my colleagues and I at &yet released a couple of tools we hope will help make it more tinkerable and pose a real risk of actually being useful. As a demo of these tools, we Read more…

  10. Firefox Developer Tools work week wrap-up

    • by and • Add-ons, Developer Tools, Firefox • 21 comments

    Last week in Sunnyvale we had the first Developer Tools work week to include the recently-integrated Jetpack team ( for a slightly different take on the week, see Paul’s post. ). And what a week! I was a bit shocked by how many things I Read more…