1. Dev Derby February – working with touch events

    • by Robert Nyman • Dev Derby • No comments yet

    It’s February and time for our next Dev Derby! Dev Derby is a part of Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), and each of them are focused on a certain technology where people can submit their Read more…

  2. Announcing the December Dev Derby Winners

    • by John Karahalis • Dev Derby, Uncategorized • 3 comments

    IndexedDB lets web applications store structured data for fast online and offline use. Data can be stored using key-value pairs, and values do not need to be serialized (as they do with document-oriented databases) or coerced into a relational structure (as with relational databases). Recently, Read more…

  3. Interview: Nikhil Suresh on Building His Winning Canvas Demo

    • by Havi Hoffman • Canvas, Dev Derby, Gaming • 7 comments

    Editor’s Note: Back in November, Nikhil Suresh (@nklsrh2) from Sydney, Australia, won the MDN Developer Derby with his distinctive, non-violent 2-person shooter game Bouncy and the Apple. We thought it’d be fun to learn a little more about Nikhil and what inspires him. Congratulations Nikhil, Read more…

  4. Dev Derby for January – show us your best orientation!

    • by Robert Nyman • CSS, Dev Derby • 3 comments

    As you might know, each month we have a Dev Derby as part of Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), and each of them are focused on a certain technology where people can compete with their Read more…

  5. Congratulations November Dev Derby Winners

    • by Havi Hoffman and John Karahalis • Canvas, Dev Derby • 1 comment

    Canvas is a new HTML5 element which creates a digital “drawing board.” A web developer can use one of these drawing boards along with some JavaScript to create simple shapes, graphs, animations, interactive games, and more. Recently, eighteen creative minds showed us just how powerful Read more…

  6. Congrats to our October Dev Derby winners!

    • by Jay Patel • CSS, Demo Studio, Dev Derby, Featured Article, Media Queries • No comments yet

    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 Read more…

  7. Located: Winners of the September Dev Derby on Geolocation.

    • by Jay Patel • Challenge, Demo Studio, Dev Derby, Featured Article, Geolocation, MDN, Mobile • No comments yet

    With more people going mobile and taking the Web with them, we thought Geolocation was a great topic for the September Dev Derby. Web developers explored a number of ways to bring your physical location into the Web experience and we had 16 demos submitted Read more…

  8. Congrats to our August Dev Derby winners!

    • by Jay Patel • Demo Studio, Dev Derby, Featured Article, History API, HTML5 • 1 comment

    For our August Dev Derby, we decided to see what developers could do with the History API. We had 11 demos submitted and it was interesting to see how the History API creates new ways to interact with Web content. After all the votes were Read more…

  9. Geolocation explained – a quick screencast

    • by Chris Heilmann • Demo, Dev Derby • 2 comments

  10. Where on earth? This month’s Developer Derby is all about geolocation.

    • by Chris Heilmann • Dev Derby, Firefox, Geolocation • No comments yet

    Another month, another Developer Derby. This month we want you to play with something that is not part of the HTML5 stack and we feel it doesn’t get the love it deserves from developers: the geolocation API. Firefox has supported this API for a long Read more…