http://hacks.mozilla.org Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:03:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few weeks ago, we launched a new survey for Web developers. We wanted to learn more about what you are interested in to build the Mozilla Developer Network tailored to your needs. Thanks to your help in spreading the word about the survey, we surpassed our goal of 5,000 responses!  ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/11/web-developer-survey-5000/ This is a re-post from Rob Cambell's personal weblog. Firebug 1.5 is the first release that will work with the upcoming Firefox 3.6 and also also works with Firefox 3.5. It's currently in beta and will be available before the release of Firefox 3.6. As of this minute, Firebug ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/11/whats-new-in-firebug-1-5/ A short post on this topic. Alexander Limi has a post describing a simple way that web sites could improve their performance: by putting images, css and other static resources in a .zip file for downloading. He's asking for feedback on the topic. If the feedback is good we're ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/11/a-proposal-resource-packages-to-improve-performance/ Two weeks ago we announced the launch of the Mozilla Developer Network. We also asked for your help through this short survey for Web developers. The questions were meant to understand who you are, what you're interested in, and what resources would be most useful to you on MDN. We're ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/11/web-developer-survey-update/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="5 Years of Firefox Cake at the Firefox Developer day in Tokyo, Japan"][/caption] Firefox is five years old. We thought that we would celebrate that by talking about how the web has changed over the last five years and Firefox's role in those changes. Where We're At 2009 ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/11/5-years/ 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 'load' event on <video> and <audio> ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/11/api-change-media-load-css-gradient/ Firefox 3.6b1 is now available for download. As usual, this is a beta release so the usual warnings about eating your data and burning your house down apply. If you download and run this beta you will get updates as we make them available - once every 1-2 weeks or ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/firefox-3-6b1/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Route 66 by Caveman 92223"][/caption] Help us build the Mozilla Developer Network Take the survey now. At Mozilla we've been talking recently about how important the web has become to everything around us. The web - and the Internet it's built on - has become the defining computing ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/mozilla-developer-network/ This demo is from our good friend Ryan Seddon who came up with a demo that seems deeply appropriate for this week, given our focus on the future of fonts on the web. If you've ever been editing a page and wanted to know what a particular font looked like without ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/font_dragr-a-drag-and-drop-preview-tool-for-fonts/ Note: the discussion below applies to work in progress that might show up in Firefox 3.7. It does not describe features in Firefox 3.6. This post is from Jonathan Kew and John Daggett. He's supplied a 5 minute video that shows some of the features on the fly. ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/font-control-for-designers/ This article was written by John Daggett. John is a Mozilla contributor and has been working hard with font creators and web developers to improve the state of fonts on the web. This article is a high-level overview of whats different and shows some examples of WOFF in ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/woff/ Thomas Saunders of modern-carpentry has a very nice HTML5 demo, making waves with html5, showcasing the power of Canvas as well as Processing.js. modern carpentry rides the html5 canvas wave Thomas says: I was challenged at work to create something that "floats naturally". After a while of confusion in my pursuit of ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/making-waves-with-html5/ Firefox Multitouch at MozChile - Drawing Canvas Experiment from Marcio Galli on Vimeo. A couple of months ago we featured a video that had some examples of multi-touch working in Firefox. At a recent event in South America, Marcio Galli put together a quick and fun drawing program based on ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/multi-touch/ One new feature that we're including as part of Firefox 3.6 is support for web pages to access machine orientation information if it's available. As you can see from the demo above you can use it to figure out if the machine is moving and what direction it's facing. Using ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/orientation-for-firefox/ Firefox support for Content Security Policy (CSP) has been in the news and is now available in test builds for web developers to try. Support for CSP isn't slated for Firefox 3.6 but is likely to be included in the release after 3.6, mostly likely called 3.7. This post is ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/content-security-policy/ This is a guest post by David Humphrey and was originally posted in his weblog. David is a professor at Seneca College in Toronto where he teaches and researches open source development and leads Mozilla's education project. David's been involved with WebGL well before it became WebGL and ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/webgl-in-the-wild/ Update: This poll is now closed - we'll post some results once we've analyzed them - thanks for helping! We're running a short survey to find out what the phrase "open web" means to web developers. What does that phrase mean to you? http://rypple.com/blizzard/web It's an anonymous survey and will probably take ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/open-web-survey/ Less than a year after the release of Theora 1.0, the wonderful people at Xiph have released Theora 1.1. The 1.1 release is a software-only release of the Theora encoder and decoder. It does not include any changes to the Theora format. Existing Theora videos should continue ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/theora-1-1-released/ If you see other cool WebGL demos post them in the comments here or let us know at @mozhacks. We'll keep posting them as we find them. A port of Puls to WebGL: Escher-Droste effect in WebGL: Metatunnel by FRequency: (via Mark Steele) http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/three-more-webgl-demos/ This is a re-post from Vlad Vukićević's personal blog. WebGL, an effort to bring a GL-based 3D extension to the web, is being standardized through Khronos. The WebGL work is based on the GL Canvas extension that Vlad started and is now being implemented in both Firefox and ... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/webgl-for-firefox/