1. Announcing the December Dev Derby Winners

    • by John Karahalis • Uncategorized • 2 comments

    IndexedDB lets web applications store structured data for fast online and offline use. Data can be stored using key-value pairs, and values do not need to be serialized (as they do with document-oriented databases) or coerced into a relational structure (as with relational databases). Recently, Read more…

  2. Mozilla Hacks Weekly, September 22nd

    • by Robert Nyman • HTML5, Identity, Mozilla Hacks Weekly, Uncategorized • No comments yet

    It’s Thursday, and time for reading suggestions from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Read more…

  3. speak.js: Text-to-Speech on the Web

    • by azakai • Audio, Demo, HTML5, JavaScript, Uncategorized • 13 comments

  4. Add-on SDK and the beta of Add-on Builder now available!

    • by dhorner • Add-ons, Developer Tools, Featured Article, Firefox, Uncategorized • 14 comments

    Firefox offers users complete control over the look and functionality of their Web browser with a gallery of hundreds of thousands of add-ons. With the launch of Add-on SDK and Add-on Builder Beta, web developers  need only knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS to create Read more…

  5. Wiki Wednesday: February 23, 2011

    • by Eric Shepherd • Uncategorized • No comments yet

    Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by Read more…

  6. HTML5 video ‘buffered’ property available in Firefox 4

    • by cpearce • Audio, Firefox 4, HTML5, Uncategorized, Video • 17 comments

    Support for the HTML5 video 'buffered' property has landed in Firefox, we can now accurately determine which time-segments of a video we can play and seek into without needing to pause playback to download more data. Read more…

  7. two important api changes – CSS gradients and the media load event

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Uncategorized • 3 comments

    Robert O’Callahan has been posting updates in his weblog about changes that we’re going to be making that are web-facing. It’s worth summarizing two here for web developers. Removing the media element ‘load’ event. Yesterday I checked in a patch that removes support for the Read more…

  8. a 20 second survey to help improve hacks.mozilla.org

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Uncategorized • 5 comments

    I asked this on the mozhacks twitter account earlier today but I’d like to get more feedback: what’s your single favorite thing about hacks.mozilla.org? The survey is totally anonymous and takes 20 seconds or so. It’s limited, much like twitter, to a very short response. Read more…

  9. synchronous XHR requests in Firefox 3.5

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Uncategorized • 10 comments

    This post is from Doug Turner who has previous written about Geolocation. Doug works on Mozilla’s mobile project. XMLHttpRequests (XHR) can be either synchronous or asynchronous. Although most people use asynchronous requests there are instances where you might want to use a synchronous request. That Read more…