Articles for July 2012
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Using IndexedDB API today – the IndexedDB polyfills
This is a guest post from Parashuram Narasimhan on how to use IndexedDB today. Using the polyfills mentioned in this article, web developers can start using IndexedDB APIs in their applications and support a wider range of browsers. The IndexedDB API has matured into a stable specification with support by major browser vendors. However, the […]
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Report from San Francisco Gigabit Hack Days with US Ignite
This past weekend, the Internet Archive played host to a crew of futurist hackers for the San Francisco Gigabit Hack Days. The two-day event, organized by Mozilla and the City of San Francisco, was a space for hackers and civic innovators to do some experiments around the potential of community fiber and gigabit networks. Kick-off […]
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Keynote on Firefox OS at Campus Party Recife
Chris Heilmann and I just finished our keynote at Campus Party Recife in this lovely Brazilian coastal town. It is amazing to see the enthusiasm and momentum around Firefox OS in the local community. By partnering with Telefonica and their Open Web Device initiative the reception was that much that the organisers had to double […]
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FoxIE – a video training series on web standards with Microsoft
About a month ago Chris Heilmann of Mozilla went to Miami, Florida to shoot a series of training videos with Rey Bango of Microsoft. Now these videos are available on Microsoft’s Channel9 as the FoxIE training series. In a very off-the-cuff discussion format between Rey and Chris we covered a few topics: Introducing FoxIE has […]
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Taking About:Home Snippets to the Next Level.
If you are a Firefox user and you start the browser this morning or you type “about:home” in the URL bar we have a surprise for you. Instead of the Firefox logo you’ll see an animation celebrating the global spirit of community. This is just one of many planned enhancements to mozilla.org pages and mozilla […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, July 25th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles How I learned Backbone.js, Three.js & GLSL in one week Preparing Yourself for Modern JavaScript Development List of languages that compile to JS Let’s Code: Test-Driven Javascript Websocket Frame Inspection now in Chrome DevTools Resources SpahQL – A query language for Javascript objects Web application framework for a […]
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Hack the News: Apply for an OpenNews Fellowship
How would you like a job where every day is like a hackathon, and you are helping to reinvent a struggling industry? If that sounds intriguing to you, you should apply to become a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow for 2012-2013. If selected, you’ll be embedded in a world-class newsroom, where you’ll write the code that exposes […]
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Announcing the June Dev Derby winners!
Last month, creative web developers from around the world showed us what they could do with WebGL in the June Dev Derby competition. After looking through the entries, our three expert judges—Guillermo Rauch, Peter Lubbers, and Rob Hawkes—have decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not a contestant? There are other reasons to be excited. […]
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Aurora 16 is out — Unprefixing time !
Web developers, it is time to celebrate! In the upcoming Firefox 16, which reached the Aurora status today, a major enhancement is the unprefixing of several stable CSS features. Other notable features of interest to Web developers include several more HTML5-related APIs, better accessibility on Mac OS, and improvements to Firefox Developer Tools. So […]
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Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format
Firefox 15 (now in the Beta channel) supports the Opus audio format, via the Opus reference implementation. What is it? Opus is a completely free audio format that was recently approved for publication as a standards-track RFC by the IETF. Opus files can play in Firefox Beta today. Opus offers these benefits: Better compression than […]