Articles for October 2013
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Monetization with Inneractive on Firefox OS
Monetization is important for any viable platform so developers can benefit from their hard work and to further encourage quality apps. Mozilla teamed up with the ad network, Inneractive, to create a simple library for integrating ads into apps and games specifically for Firefox OS. This article will go through the process of integrating Inneractive […]
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Halloween artist
A while back, I made a little toy that simulates carving pumpkins. It was during that narrow window when the WebOS-running TouchPad was new and hot. Since then, web browsers have gown up a lot, and nowadays Mozilla is executing the vision of a browser-based operating system with Firefox OS. In any case, I’ve been […]
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Songs of Diridum: Pushing the Web Audio API to Its Limits
When we at Goo Technologies heard that the Web Audio API would be supported in an upcoming version of Mozilla Firefox, we immediately started brainstorming about what we could build with that. We started discussing the project with the game developers behind “Legend of Diridum” (see below) and came up with the idea of a […]
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Progress report on cross-platform Open Web Apps
Here in the Hacks blog we’ve written a lot about building apps for Firefox OS using HTML, JS, and CSS. We’re working to ensure that those same apps can also run on Android, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux devices. If your app can adapt to those screen sizes, CPU’s, and device capabilities, then we’ve […]
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Building a Firefox OS App for my favorite Internet radio station
I recently created a Firefox OS app for my favourite radio station — radio paradise. It was a lot of fun making this app, so I thought it would be good to share some notes about how I built it. The audio tag It started by implementing the main functionality of the app, playing an […]
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Working with receipts for paid apps
You’ve put your hard work into building a great app. If you want to get paid for your app then the Firefox Marketplace supports app receipts and verification of those receipts. Receipt verification is how we ensure that your app has been paid for in the case of both hosted and packaged apps. It’s important […]
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Fast retro gaming on mobile
Emulation is the cool technique that makes retro gaming possible, i.e. play old video games on modern devices. It allows pixel lovers to revive gaming experiences from the past. In this article we will demonstrate that the web platform is suitable for emulation, even on mobile where by definition everything is limited. Emulation is a […]
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Announcing the winners of the July 2013 Dev Derby!
This past summer, some of the most passionate and creative web developers out there innovated with the File API in our July Dev Derby contest. After sorting through the entries, an all-star cast of former judges–Peter Lubbers, Eric Shepherd, and David Walsh–decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not a contestant? There are other reasons […]
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awsbox, a PaaS layer for Node.js: An Update on Latest Developments
This is the 2nd time we’ve talked about awsbox on the Mozilla Hacks blog. In the first article we gave you a quick introduction to awsbox as part of the Node.js Holiday Season set of articles. Here we’d like to tell you about some recently added features to awsbox. To briefly recap, awsbox is a […]
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Introducing TogetherJS
What is TogetherJS? We’d like to introduce TogetherJS, a real-time collaboration tool out of Mozilla Labs. TogetherJS is a service you add to an existing website to add real-time collaboration features. Using the tool two or more visitors on a website or web application can see each other’s mouse/cursor position, clicks, track each other’s browsing, […]