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  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. Wiki Wednesday: February 8, 2012

    • by Eric Shepherd • Docs, Wiki Wednesday • 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…

  3. Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI

    • by Robert Nyman • WebAPI • 10 comments

    Detecting battery level in a device or computer can help you inform the user of the current status. Within Mozilla’s WebAPI, we have the Battery API to offer that possibility. Accessing the battery First, it’s a matter of accessing the battery object: var battery = Read more…

  4. Tantek Çelik about the importance of Web Standards

    • by Tristan Nitot • Featured Article, Mission:Mozilla • 1 comment

    This is the fourth installment of Mission:Mozilla, a series of interviews that link Mozillians, the technology they produce and the Mozilla mission. This time, We’re interviewing Tantek Çelik, a long-time Web standards contributor. He started working on web standards at Microsoft in 1998, while leading Read more…

  5. FOSDEM 2012: Mozilla Labs Apps and The Future of HTML5 Games

    • by Rob Hawkes • Apps, Conferences, Featured Article, Gaming • No comments yet

    In this post I round-up my first time at FOSDEM and the two talks I gave during my time there; one on open Web apps and the other on creating games with HTML5. This past weekend I have been in Brussels at FOSDEM, and absolutely Read more…

  6. Aurora 12 is out – improvements and updated Developer Tools

    • by Robert Nyman • Aurora, Developer Tools • No comments yet

    Aurora 12 is out, together with updated Developer Tools, and these are the improvements/changes. Highlights A few of the improvements that stand out a little more: ECMAScript Harmony’s Simple Map and Set builtins For testing purposes, we have implemented ECMAScript Harmony’s Simple Map and Set Read more…

  7. SPDY Brings Responsive and Scalable Transport to Firefox 11

    • by Patrick McManus • Firefox • 20 comments

    Firefox 11 contains the first Firefox implementation of the SPDY protocol. SPDY is a secure web transport protocol that encapsulates HTTP/1 while replacing its aging connection management strategies. This results in more responsive page loads today and enables better scalability with the real time web Read more…

  8. Mozilla Hacks Weekly, February 2nd 2012

    • by Robert Nyman • BrowserID, Firefox, HTML5, Mozilla Hacks Weekly • No comments yet

    After a little break, Mozilla Hacks Weekly is now back! More reading tips from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team. We also have a new format for our content, so please let us know if you have any thoughts on that! At the end of this blog Read more…

  9. State of the Docs, Feb. 1, 2012

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN • No comments yet

    Here are some of the changes to the Mozilla Developer Network site in the week and a half since the recent doc sprint. Infrastructure woes We had a snafu for a few days last week when a server crashed in the middle of a move Read more…

  10. Creating thumbnails with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas

    • by Chris Heilmann • Canvas, Featured Demo, FileAPI, HTML5 • 2 comments