1. Privacy policy guidelines and Template for web apps

    • by Chris Heilmann • Apps, Featured Article, privacy, Security • 3 comments

    Releasing an app is much more than just coding it. You are providing a service to people and they trust you with their data. With the amount of reports of apps “calling home” and storing and sending your data to third parties without your consent Read more…

  2. Aurora 14 is out! What’s new in it?

    • by Jean-Yves Perrier • Aurora, Featured Article • 34 comments

    We have just released Firefox Aurora 14, which includes a number of improvements. If all goes well, these features should be released in 12 weeks as part of Firefox 14. Highlights There are a few of things we’d like to shine some extra light on Read more…

  3. HTML5 audio and audio sprites – this should be simple

    • by Chris Heilmann • Audio, Dev Derby, Featured Article, HTML5 • 2 comments

    As we’re having a HTML5 Audio developer derby this month, I thought it fun to play with audio again. And I found it sadly enough pretty frustrating. One thing I proposed in a lot of talks is using the idea of CSS sprites and apply Read more…

  4. Video, Mobile, and the Open Web

    • by Brendan Eich • Featured Article, Firefox, Video • 139 comments

    [Also posted at brendaneich.com.] I wrote The Open Web and Its Adversaries just over five years ago, based on the first SXSW Browser Wars panel (we just had our fifth, it was great — thanks to all who came). Some history The little slideshow I Read more…

  5. Firefox in 2011 – Firefox plans for 2012

    • by Robert Nyman • Add-ons, Aurora, Featured Article, Firefox, Performance, SPDY • 140 comments

    A lot of people are interested in Firefox, the progress that is being made and what we plan to do. Therefore, I’d like to outline the things we accomplished with Firefox in 2011, and what we have already done, and plan to do, in Read more…

  6. There is no simple solution for local storage

    • by Chris Heilmann • Featured Article, HTML5, IndexedDB, localStorage, Performance, Research • 94 comments

    TL;DR: we have to stop advocating localStorage as a great opportunity for storing data as it performs badly. Sadly enough the alternatives are not nearly as supported or simple to implement. When it comes to web development you will always encounter things that sound too Read more…

  7. Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko – The Web is the Platform

    • by Robert Nyman • Boot to Gecko (B2G), Featured Article, HTML5, Web Developers • 79 comments

    Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko (B2G) is about building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web. It aims at making web technologies the number one choice for applications on desktop and mobile, and we believe it can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development. Read more…

  8. Storing images and files in IndexedDB

    • by Robert Nyman • Featured Article, IndexedDB • 16 comments

    The other day we wrote about how to Save images and files in localStorage, and it was about being pragmatic with what we have available today. There are, however, a number of performance implications with localStorage – something that we will cover on this blog Read more…

  9. Tantek Çelik about the importance of Web Standards

    • by Tristan Nitot • Featured Article, Mission:Mozilla • 4 comments

    This is the fourth installment of Mission:Mozilla, a series of interviews that link Mozillians, the technology they produce and the Mozilla mission. This time, We’re interviewing Tantek Çelik, a long-time Web standards contributor. He started working on web standards at Microsoft in 1998, while leading Read more…

  10. FOSDEM 2012: Mozilla Labs Apps and The Future of HTML5 Games

    • by Rob Hawkes • Apps, Conferences, Featured Article, Gaming • No comments yet

    In this post I round-up my first time at FOSDEM and the two talks I gave during my time there; one on open Web apps and the other on creating games with Read more…