HTML Articles
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A Social-aware Dashboard Experience with Gecko in Walls
This article covers a Web project that rethinks how TV appliances can be used in public spaces for real-time content and interaction with social networks. Tela Social is a powered by Mozilla system application that runs in Linux appliances and creates a visual experience that presents custom and interactive content with real time data using […]
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WebRTC Data Channels for Great Multiplayer
WebRTC is getting great press lately for it’s amazing applications in voice and video communication. But did you know that WebRTC also has support for peer-to-peer data? Below I’ll talk about the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of data channels, and then I’ll show you how we’re using them in BananaBread to support peer-to-peer multiplayer.
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Notes on developing an API – Mobozi, a WebFWD project
HTML5 has made it easy to do a lot of really cool stuff on the mobile web, but one thing that is still pretty difficult is dealing with photos. Android has supported access to the device camera via the File API since version 3.0 and iOS opened it up last Fall with iOS 6. Allowing […]
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Building User-Extensible Webapps with Local
In an interview with Andrew Binstock in 2012, Alan Kay described the browser as “a joke.” If that surprises you, you’ll be glad to know that Mr. Binstock was surprised as well. Part of the problem Kay pointed out is well-known: feature-set. Browsers are doing today what word-processors and presentation tools have done for decades. […]
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Subtome: a better subscribe button
One of the most common features of web apps is the ability to subscribe: Most news websites or blogs have RSS feeds that enable users to subscribe to upcoming posts and articles in their favorite readers. Social web applications such as Twitter, Tumblr or Instagram allow you to follow other users. Github allows you to […]
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Getting started with Open Web Apps – why and how
We’ve been talking a lot about Open Web Apps, Firefox OS and more here lately, and I wanted to cover both how to get started, and, maybe more importantly, why. Why a web app? If we look at the climate for mobile development, it has usually come down to a choice where developers had to […]
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Websecurify – Experiences & Technology Choices
When I launched @websecurify years ago I wrote a lot of JavaScript, native code and XUL but today the technology combo that I use in Websecurify is made of a custom language compiled to JavaScript that sits on top of the modern HTML5 stack that runs inside your normal browser. Sounds crazy but it somehow […]
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Power Polygon – HTML5 slides with theming and much more
Since 2007 or so, I’ve been giving talks on my web browser, although browsers did not offer much of the current technology back then! Of course, each talk of mine was based on a new HTML page which isn’t very practical! Power Polygon was then born! And died a few months after that! I kept […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, December 19th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles AngularJS JavaScript MVC Framework and SEO JS adolescence Compiling to JavaScript: What, Why, and How? JavaScript APIs you’ve never heard of (and some you have) Responsive Images: What We Thought We Needed Resources Craft.js – small but powerful JavaScript framework Cool HTML Visual Test Tool ScrobMaster – Master […]
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headtrackr for real-time face tracking, smartphone features you never thought of, HTML5 Forms support + more in Hacks Weekly
This week Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team suggest reading about headtrackr for real-time face tracking, smartphone features you never thought of using, Web browser support for HTML5 Forms and more!