Articles for July 2012
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Optimizing Memory Usage for Add-ons
Editor’s note: This is a short excerpt from Nicholas Nethercote’s personal blog. Nicholas is a programmer from Melbourne, Australia, who works for Mozilla on improving the quality of software. Here’s the good news in a nutshell: “Over the past year, Mozilla has made great progress in reducing Firefox’s memory consumption. However, the excessive memory consumption […]
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HTML5 Web applications and libraries survey – first results
At Mozilla, we are dedicated to keep the web open and independent of a single company or technology. This means that users should have a choice of browsers and technology to use to go online and should not be blocked out because they can’t afford a certain device or are forbidden to change their browser. […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, July 18th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Let’s Code: Test-Driven Javascript Podcast : JSJ Design Patterns in Javascript Proxies and Frozen objects BrowserID: Logging in with BrowserID, Passport and NodeJS XHTML, document.write, and Adsense Resources HTML Shell Brunch – Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications Node.JS port of WebGL for desktops: windows, linux, mac […]
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Want to fix the mobile web with us? Please answer some questions we have!
At Mozilla our main reason to be is to keep the web open and free for everybody. We are passionate about the web and love how easy it is to get started as a developer. A few years ago we fought against monoculture on the desktop and won. Now we have the new challenge to […]
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The Web Developer Toolbox: Modernizr
This is the third in a series of articles dedicated to useful libraries that all web developers should have in their toolbox. The intent is to show you what those libraries can do and help you to use them at their best. This third article is dedicated to the Modernizr library. Introduction Modernizer is a […]
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Interview: Jay Salvat, Audio Dev Derby winner
Jay Salvat won the Audio Dev Derby with Buzz demo, his wonderful children’s game powered by the open web. Using a JavaScript library that he wrote himself, Jay demonstrated that web audio can be not only useful, but also practical and even engaging. Recently, I had the opportunity to learn more about Jay: his work, […]
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getUserMedia is ready to roll!
We blogged about some of our WebRTC efforts back in April. Today we have an exciting update for you on that front: getUserMedia has landed on mozilla-central! This means you will be able to use the API on the latest Nightly versions of Firefox, and it will eventually make its way to a release build. […]
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Firebug 1.10 New Features
Firebug 1.10 has been released and so, let’s see what new features are introduced in this version. First of all, check out the compatibility table: Firefox 5.0 – 13.0 with Firebug 1.9 Firefox 13.0 – 16.0 with Firebug 1.10 Firebug 1.10 is true community achievement and so, let me also introduce all developers who contributed […]
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Dr.Seuss and Persona – Mozilla at Webvisions Barcelona
Last week Webvisions, a 3 day conference covering everything UX and web lured a few hundred enthusiasts to the sunny Barcelona. Mozilla sent Crystal Beasley and Chris Heilmann to talk about logging into the web with Persona and the future of the web. Crystal gave a workshop on login systems and how to improve them […]
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MDN: Wiki edits disabled for now
We have entirely disabled editing of the current MindTouch based wiki, without enabling the automatic redirection to Kuma, while we deal with a technical issue caused by our script that was automatically migrating every edit on the MindTouch site to Kuma. Once that is resolved, we should be able to enable the automatic redirects of […]