1. JavaScript speedups in Firefox 3.6

    • by Alix Franquet • Featured Article, Firefox, Firefox 3.6, JavaScript, TraceMonkey • 85 comments

    This post was written by David Mandelin who works on Mozilla’s JavaScript team. Firefox 3.5 introduced TraceMonkey, our new JavaScript engine that traces loops and JIT compiles them to native (x86/ARM) code. Many JavaScript programs ran 3-4x faster in TraceMonkey compared to Firefox 3. (See Read more…

  2. interactive file uploads with Drag and Drop, FileAPI and XMLHttpRequest

    • by Paul Rouget • Drag and Drop, Featured Demo, FileAPI, Firefox, Firefox 3.6, XMLHttpRequest • 27 comments

  3. file drag and drop in Firefox 3.6

    • by Paul Rouget • Demo, Drag and Drop, FileAPI, Firefox, Firefox 3.6 • 31 comments

  4. multiple file input in Firefox 3.6

    • by Paul Rouget • Device APIs, DOM, Feature, Featured Article, FileAPI, Firefox, Firefox 3.6 • 28 comments

    Firefox 3.6 supports multiple file input. This new capability allows you to get several files as input at once, using standard technologies. This is a big improvement, since you used to be constrained to one file at a time, or needed to use a third Read more…

  5. Firefox 3.6 FileAPI demo: reading EXIF data from a local JPEG file

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Demo, FileAPI, Firefox 3.6 • 19 comments

  6. W3C FileAPI in Firefox 3.6

    • by Arun Ranganathan • Drag and Drop, Feature, Featured Article, FileAPI, Firefox 3.6 • 38 comments

    Often, web applications will prompt the user to select a file, typically to upload to a server. Unless the web application makes use of a plugin, file selection occurs through an HTML input element, of the sort <input type="file"/>. Firefox 3.6 now supports much of Read more…

  7. css backgrounds in Firefox 3.6

    • by Alix Franquet • CSS, Firefox, Firefox 3.6 • 17 comments

    Firefox 3.6 allows you to do more with CSS backgrounds: you can use gradients, set a background size, and specify multiple backgrounds. Custom Background Size In Firefox 3.6, you can specify the size of a background image to scale it as a percentage of the Read more…

  8. pointer-events for HTML in Firefox 3.6 css

    • by Christopher Blizzard • CSS, Feature, Featured Demo, Firefox 3.6, Standards, SVG • 31 comments

  9. building beautiful buttons with css gradients

    • by Christopher Blizzard • CSS, Demo, Featured Article, Firefox 3.6, Standards • 26 comments

  10. css gradients in Firefox 3.6

    • by Alix Franquet • CSS, Feature, Featured Article, Firefox 3.6, Standards • 54 comments

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