1. Firefox 4: An early walk-through of IndexedDB

    • by Arun Ranganathan and Shawn Wilsher • Firefox 4, IndexedDB, Standards • 170 comments

    Web developers already have localStorage, which is used for client side storage of simple key-value pairs. This alone doesn’t address the needs of many web applications for structured storage and indexed data. Mozilla is working on a structured storage API with indexing support called IndexedDB, Read more…

  2. Beyond HTML5: Database APIs and the Road to IndexedDB

    • by Arun Ranganathan • Firefox 4, IndexedDB, Standards • 100 comments

    IndexedDB is an evolving web standard for the storage of significant amounts of structured data in the browser and for high performance searches on this data using indexes. Mozilla has submitted substantial technical feedback on the specification, and we plan to implement it in Firefox Read more…

  3. upcoming changes to the viewport meta tag for firefox mobile

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Mobile, Standards • 5 comments

    This is a guest post by Matt Brubeck who works on the Firefox Mobile team. The upcoming release of Mobile Firefox (Fennec) 1.1 features improved support for the <meta name="viewport"> tag. Previous version of Fennec supported the width, height, and initial-scale viewport properties, but had Read more…

  4. Firefox, YouTube and WebM

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Featured Article, Firefox 4, HTML5, Standards, Video • 96 comments

    Five important items of note today relating to Mozilla’s support for the VP8 codec: 1. Google will be releasing VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. VP8 is a high-quality video codec that Google acquired when they purchased the company On2. The VP8 codec Read more…

  5. Getting involved with Account Manager

    • by Dan Mills • Firefox 4, Identity, Standards • 6 comments

    It’s been a couple of weeks since we originally posted about Account Manager and we’ve gotten a lot of feedback. We’ve got a few opportunities for people to get more involved with the project, listed below. Join us at the Account Manager Meet-up or at Read more…

  6. Firefox 4: the HTML5 parser – inline SVG, speed and more

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Firefox, HTML5, Performance, Standards, SVG • 66 comments

    This is a guest post from Henri Sivonen, who has been working on Firefox’s new HTML5 parser. The HTML parser is one of the most complicated and sensitive pieces of a browser. It controls how your HTML source is turned into web pages and as Read more…

  7. Revitalizing Caching

    • by Arun Ranganathan • Firefox, HTML5, Offline, Performance, Standards • 22 comments

    Apparently, there are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and the naming of things (or so Phil Karlton’s dictum goes). Earlier this month, we invited representatives of Twitter, Facebook, SproutCore, Palm’s webOS, Microsoft’s “Office On The Web”, Yahoo, and Google to talk Read more…

  8. WebSockets in Firefox

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Feature, HTML5, Performance, Standards, WebSocket, XMLHttpRequest • 40 comments

    Here’s the pitch for WebSockets: a low-complexity, low-latency, bi-directional communication system that has a pretty simple API for web developers. Let’s break that down, and then talk about if and when we’re going to include it in Firefox: Low-complexity The WebSocket protocol, which is started Read more…

  9. The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model

    • by Paul Rouget • CSS, Standards • 98 comments

    This article about the Flexible Box Layout was written by Jérémie Patonnier, French open Web enthusiast. The flexible box model CSS 3 introduces a brand new box model in addition of the traditional box model from CSS 1 and 2. The flexible box model determines Read more…

  10. mozilla developer preview 4 ready for testing

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Featured Article, Firefox, Performance, Security, Standards • 8 comments

    Note: this is a re-post of the entry in the Mozilla Project Development Weblog. There’s some juicy stuff in here for Web Developers that need testing. In particular, this is the first build with the CSS history changes. As part of our ongoing platform development Read more…