1. JavaScript on the server: Growing the Node.js Community

    • by Robert Nyman • JavaScript • 14 comments

    Cloud9 IDE and Mozilla have been working together ever since their Bespin and ACE projects joined forces. Both organizations are committed to the success of Node.js, Mozilla due to its history with Javascript and Cloud9 IDE as a core contributor to Node.js and provider of Read more…

  2. Writing forward-compatible websites

    • by Robert Nyman • CSS, Featured Article, JavaScript, Web Developers • No comments yet

    As web developers we want to ensure what we build is accessible by as many people as possible, with as many web browsers, operating systems and devices as we can support. It is also hard to know what the future holds, and for that we Read more…

  3. Faster Canvas Pixel Manipulation with Typed Arrays

    • by Paul Rouget • JavaScript, Performance • 17 comments

    Edit: See the section about Endiannes. Typed Arrays can significantly increase the pixel manipulation performance of your HTML5 2D canvas Web apps. This is of particular importance to developers looking to use HTML5 for making browser-based games. This is a guest post by Andrew J. Read more…

  4. Paving the way for open games on the Web with the Gamepad and Mouse Lock APIs

    • by Rob Hawkes • Gaming, JavaScript • 10 comments

    In this post I’ll be introducing the Gamepad and Mouse Lock APIs, two additions to Firefox that are paving the way for high quality games on the Read more…

  5. Firefox – tons of tools for web developers!

    • by Robert Nyman • Add-ons, Aurora, CSS, Debugging, Developer Tools, Featured Article, Firebug, JavaScript, Web Developers • 76 comments

    One of the goals of Firefox have always been to make the lives of web developers as easy and productive as possible, by providing tools and a very extensible web browser to enable people to create amazing things. The idea here is to list a Read more…

  6. Mozilla Hacks Weekly, November 3rd 2011

    • by Robert Nyman • CSS, HTML5, IndexedDB, JavaScript, Mozilla Hacks Weekly • No comments yet

    Thursday again, and we in the Mozilla’s Developer Engagement Team has our weekly reading tips for Read more…

  7. WDC2011: Tomorrow’s Web (and Future Technologies)

    • by Rob Hawkes • B2G, Conferences, Device APIs, HTML5, JavaScript, WebSocket • 2 comments

    Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Web Developer Conference in Bristol. This was the fifth conference in the event’s history and was attended by well over 200 Web designers and developers from across the UK. In my talk I Read more…

  8. Tagging docs for sprint at JSConf.eu October 1-2

    • by Janet Swisher • Conferences, Docs, DOM, JavaScript, MDN, Sprints • No comments yet

    We’re very excited to announce that Mozilla is sponsoring the Hacker Lounge at JSConf.eu and we will be holding a doc sprint at and during the conference. The focus of this doc sprint will naturally be docs for JavaScript and DOM. We hope to encourage Read more…

  9. Detecting and generating CSS animations in JavaScript

    • by Chris Heilmann • CSS, JavaScript, Performance • 5 comments

    When writing of the hypnotic spiral demo the issue appeared that I wanted to use CSS animation when possible but have a fallback to rotate an element. As I didn’t want to rely on CSS animation I also considered it pointless to write it by Read more…

  10. Calculated drop shadows in HTML5 canvas

    • by Chris Heilmann • Animations, Canvas, Demo, Demo Studio, HTML5, JavaScript, MDN • 5 comments