1. HTML5 and CSS3: Exploring Mobile Possibilities – presentation at London Ajax Mobile Event

    • by Robert Nyman • Conferences, CSS, Geolocation, HTML5, JavaScript, Mobile • 2 comments

    In the beginning of July, I was attending and giving a presentation at the London Ajax Mobile Event about possibilities offered by HTML5 and CSS3 when it comes to developing mobile web sites and applications. Short introduction of me Being my first post here at Read more…

  2. Doom on the Web

    • by louisremi • Canvas, Gaming, JavaScript, Performance • 14 comments

    Update: We had a doubt whether this port of the Open Source Doom respected its term of use. We decided to remove it from our Website before taking an informed and definitive decision. This is a guest post written by Alon Zakai. Alon is one Read more…

  3. MDN Learning: A place to ratchet your Web development skills

    • by Jay Patel • CSS, Featured Article, HTML5, JavaScript, Learning, MDN, Web Developers • 4 comments

    If you’re looking to improve your Web development skills, we have compiled some great resources from around the Web to help every level of developer dig into their favorite open Web technologies. Our new MDN Learning space serves as a starting point for anyone interested Read more…

  4. Accessibility and web innovation – a constant struggle

    • by Chris Heilmann • Conferences, JavaScript, Research, Standards, Web Developers • 2 comments

    I just came back from a small “accessibility tour” giving a talk about accessibility and web innovation in Stockholm, Sweden at Funkas Tillgänglighetsdagar and then in Paris at the W3Cafe meetup. In essence what I was musing about is that there is still a massive Read more…

  5. Firefox 4 Performance

    • by stormy • Firefox, Firefox 4, JägerMonkey, JavaScript, Performance, TraceMonkey • 33 comments

    Dave Mandelin from the JS team and Joe Drew from the Graphics team summarize the key performance improvements in Firefox 4. The web wants fast browsers. Cutting-edge HTML5 web pages play games, mash up and share maps, sound, and videos, show spreadsheets and presentations, and Read more…

  6. Syncing page content with HTML5 video (a different kind of webinar)

    • by Janet Swisher and Chris Heilmann • HTML5, JavaScript, Video, Webinars • 8 comments

    If you’ve been around the software industry for a little while, you’ve probably attended at least a few “webinars”, where someone does an online presentation, which you can watch and listen to in real time. You might be able to ask questions via a chat Read more…

  7. History API changes in Firefox 4

    • by Janet Swisher and Jonas Sicking • Firefox 4, HTML5, JavaScript • 10 comments

    This is a guest post by Jonas Sicking, one of the Gecko developers. As I’m sure you know we’re getting ready to ship Firefox 4. And as you might know Firefox 4 includes the history API (which includes the pushState() and replaceState() methods) defined in Read more…

  8. Multimedia on the web and using HTML5 sensibly

    • by Chris Heilmann • Featured Article, HTML5, JavaScript, Mobile, Standards, Web Developers • 9 comments

    Last week I went to the London Ajax User Meetup in London, England to deliver two talks about HTML5. One was a re-run of a talk I gave at MIT about Multimedia on the web and the second was a call to arms to use Read more…

  9. Jolicloud – a web standards based OS

    • by Chris Heilmann • HTML5, JavaScript • 4 comments

    Seeing what other people do in an audience at a conference can be interesting. When waiting for the next talk in the incredibly claustrophobic seats at FOSDEM last week I saw something that got my attention: the Desktop of an operating system being debugged using Read more…

  10. An interesting way to determine if you are logged into social web sites

    • by Chris Heilmann • Identity, JavaScript, Research, Security • 14 comments

    Do you remember the trick how to find out that you went to certain web sites by analysing link colour (now patched in Firefox)? There is much your browser tells about you if you just create a few HTML elements. Mike Cardwell has found an Read more…