Feature Articles
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stylish text with text-shadow
This post is from Frederic Wenzel, who works on Mozilla’s Web Development team. The text-shadow CSS property does what the name implies: It lets you create a slightly blurred, slightly moved copy of text, which ends up looking somewhat like a real-world shadow. The text-shadow property was first introduced in CSS2, but as it was […]
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Announcing Firefox Aurora 10
We’re happy to announce the availability of Aurora 10. (Download and Test Aurora 10) In additional to the normal improvements that you’ve come to expect like performance, security and bug fixes, Aurora 10 focuses in HTML5 enhancements. New additions HTML5 Visibility API createProcessingInstruction WebGL antialiasing 3D Transforms Visibility API Document.mozFullScreenEnabled Developer Tools Code Editor CSS […]
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DOM selectors API in Firefox 3.5
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 unifies it under a simple unified interface. Out of all […]
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a multi-touch drawing demo for Firefox 3.7
Firefox Multitouch at MozChile – Drawing Canvas Experiment from Marcio Galli on Vimeo. A couple of months ago we featured a video that had some examples of multi-touch working in Firefox. At a recent event in South America, Marcio Galli put together a quick and fun drawing program based on the multi-touch code that we’ll […]
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using web workers: working smarter, not harder
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 Bespin give us an impression of how the web will […]
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video – more than just a tag
This article is written by Paul Rouget, Mozilla contributor and purveyor of extraordinary Open Web demos. Starting with Firefox 3.5, you can embed a video in a web page like an image. This means video is now a part of the document, and finally, a first class citizen of the Open Web. Like all other […]
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pushing pixels with canvas
This post was written by Paul Rouget, who is a member of the Mozilla Evangelism team. Paul lives in Paris, France and is well known for some of his amazing work with open video on the web among other things. Canvas, at its most simple level, is an easy way to draw bitmap data into […]
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shadow boxing with -moz-box-shadow
Another fun CSS3 feature that’s been implemented in Firefox 3.5 is box shadows. This feature allows the casting of a drop “shadow” from the frame of almost any arbitrary element. As the CSS3 box shadow property is still a work in progress, however, it’s been implemented as -moz-box-shadow in Firefox. This is how Mozilla tests […]
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Mozilla developer preview (Gecko 1.9.3a2) now available
We’ve posted a new release of our Mozilla developer preview series as a way to test new features that we’re putting into the Mozilla platform. These features may or may not make it into a future Firefox release, either for desktops or for mobile phones. But that’s why we do these releases – to get […]
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the script defer attribute
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 attribute is present, then the script is executed when the […]