1. HTML5 drag and drop in Firefox 3.5

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, DOM, Feature, Firefox 3.5, JavaScript • 30 comments

    This post is from Les Orchard, who works on Mozilla’s web development team. Introduction Drag and drop is one of the most fundamental interactions afforded by graphical user interfaces. In one gesture, it allows users to pair the selection of an object with the execution Read more…

  2. css transforms: styling the web in two dimensions

    • by Eric Shepherd • 35 Days, CSS, Demo, DOM, Feature, JavaScript, Standards • 9 comments

  3. using web workers: working smarter, not harder

    • by Eric Shepherd • 35 Days, DOM, Feature, JavaScript, Standards • 17 comments

    This article is written by Malte Ubl, who has done a lot of great work with using Web Workers as part of the bespin project. In recent years, the user experience of web applications has grown richer and richer. In-browser applications like GMail, Meebo and Read more…

  4. exploring music with the audio tag

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, Audio, Demo, DOM, Firefox 3.5, SVG • 1 comment

  5. the script defer attribute

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, DOM, Feature, Firefox 3.5, JavaScript • 12 comments

    This post is by Olivier Rochard. Olivier does research at Orange Labs in France. In HTML, the script element allows authors to include dynamic script in their documents. The defer attribute is boolean attribute that indicates how the script should be executed. If the defer Read more…

  6. saving data with localStorage

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, DOM, Feature, Firefox 3.5, JavaScript • 35 comments

    This post was written by Jeff Balogh. Jeff works on Mozilla’s web development team. New in Firefox 3.5, localStorage is a part of the Web Storage specification. localStorage provides a simple Javascript API for persisting key-value pairs in the browser. It shouldn’t be confused with Read more…

  7. DOM Traversal in Firefox 3.5

    • by John Resig • DOM, Firefox 3.5, JavaScript • 12 comments

    Firefox 3.5 includes new support for two W3C DOM traversal specifications. The first, the Element Traversal API, focuses on making element-by-element traversal easier, the second, the NodeIterator interface which makes finding all node types much easier. Element Traversal API The purpose of the Element Traversal Read more…

  8. DOM selectors API in Firefox 3.5

    • by John Resig • 35 Days, DOM, Feature, Firefox 3.5, JavaScript • 18 comments

    The Selectors API recommendation, published by the W3C, is a relatively new effort that gives JavaScript developers the ability to find DOM elements on a page using CSS selectors. This single API takes the complicated process of traversing and selecting elements from the DOM and Read more…