Articles for November 2014
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Save the Web – Be a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow
This is a critical time in the evolution of the Web. Its core ethos of being free and open is at risk with too little interoperability and threats to privacy, security, and expression from governments throughout the world. To protect the Web, we need more people with technical expertise to get involved at the policy […]
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Visually Representing Angular Applications
This article concerns diagrammatically representing Angular applications. It is a first step, not a fully figured out dissertation about how to visual specify or document Angular apps. And maybe the result of this is that I, with some embarrassment, find out that someone else already has a complete solution. My interest in this springs from […]
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interact.js for drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures
interact.js is a JavaScript module for Drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping for modern browsers (and also IE8+). Background I started it as part of my GSoC 2012 project for Biographer‘s network visualization tool. The tool was a web app which rendered to an SVG canvas and used jQuery UI […]
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jsDelivr and its open-source load balancing algorithm
This is a guest post by Dmitriy Akulov of jsDelivr. Recently I wrote about jsDelivr and what makes it unique where I described in detail about the features that we offer and how our system works. Since then we improved a lot of stuff and released even more features. But the biggest one is was […]
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Mozilla Introduces the First Browser Built For Developers: Firefox Developer Edition
Developers are critical to the continued success of the Web. The content and apps they create compel us to come back to the Web every day, whether on a computer or mobile phone. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox, we’re excited to unveil Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser created specifically for developers. […]
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NFC in Firefox OS
Firefox OS is being developed in an open collaboration with Mozilla’s partners and community. In that spirit, and over the course of over a year, Mozilla and Deutsche Telekom (DT) teams worked closely together to develop a platform-level support for NFC within Firefox OS. During that time, both teams had regular product and engineering meet-ups […]
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Flame Gets Developer Preview of Firefox OS 2.0
Flame owners will be pleased to hear that the latest 2.0 developer preview of Firefox OS is now available via an over the air update. This release includes six months worth of improvements to features, responsiveness, and stability. To get it, developers simply need to go to Settings -> Device Information -> System Updates -> […]
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An easier way of using polyfills
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we’ve built a new service to make it easier. We’d like to invite you to use it, and help us improve it. More pictures, they said. So […]
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Distributed On-the-Fly Image Processing and Open Source at Vimeo
When you think of Vimeo, you probably think of video — after all, it’s what we do. However, we also have to handle creation and distribution a lot of images: thumbnails, user portraits, channel headers, and all the various awesome graphics around Vimeo, to name a few. For a very long time, all of this […]
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Porting to Emscripten
Emscripten is an open-source compiler that compiles C/C++ source code into the highly optimizable asm.js subset of JavaScript. This enables running programs originally written for desktop environments in a web browser. Porting your game to Emscripten offers several benefits. Most importantly it enables reaching a far wider potential user base. Emscripten games work on any […]