Articles
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Helping with the MDN: what about linking to us?
We are working toward writing the best documentation about the Open Web. That’s a huge task but, day by day, our docs improve. Javascript is already considered an excellent resource, our CSS reference is now in pretty good shape, and a lot of work goes into our HTML, SVG and MathML documentation. Our Open Web […]
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Aurora 12 is out – improvements and updated Developer Tools
Aurora 12 is out, together with updated Developer Tools, and these are the improvements/changes.
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Debugging and editing webpages in 3D
Tilt is a Firefox addon that lets you visualize any web page in 3D. A new update is available, coming with more developer-oriented features. Try the addon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7eG_PONHRw Since the first alpha version of Tilt was announced (a Firefox extension focused on creating a 3D visualization of a webpage), a lot of work has been […]
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speak.js: Text-to-Speech on the Web
Text-to-Speech (TTS) can make content more accessible, but there is so far no simple and universal way to do that on the web. One possible approach is shown in this demo, which is powered by speak.js, a new 100% pure JavaScript/HTML5 TTS implementation. speak.js is a port of eSpeak, an open source speech synthesizer, from […]
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Firebug 1.8 New Features
Firebug 1.8 compatible with Firefox 5.0 has been released and I would like to get this opportunity and introduce some new features in this version. Firebug 1.8 has been also uploaded to AMO, but it can take some time to appear. First of all, check out the following compatibility table: Firefox 3.6 with Firebug 1.7.3 […]
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Add-on SDK and the beta of Add-on Builder now available!
Firefox offers users complete control over the look and functionality of their Web browser with a gallery of hundreds of thousands of add-ons. With the launch of Add-on SDK and Add-on Builder Beta, web developers need only knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS to create great add-ons for Firefox that are restartless by default. The […]
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Doom on the Web
Update: We had a doubt whether this port of the Open Source Doom respected its term of use. We decided to remove it from our Website before taking an informed and definitive decision. This is a guest post written by Alon Zakai. Alon is one of the Firefox Mobile developers, and in his spare time […]
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An interesting way to determine if you are logged into social web sites
Do you remember the trick how to find out that you went to certain web sites by analysing link colour (now patched in Firefox)? There is much your browser tells about you if you just create a few HTML elements. Mike Cardwell has found an interesting way to detect if you are logged into social […]
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More efficient Javascript animations with mozRequestAnimationFrame
This is a re-post from Robert O’Callahan’s blog. <b>mozRequestAnimationFrame</b> is an experimental API to make Javascript animations more efficient. We do not guarantee to support it forever, and I wouldn’t evangelize sites to depend on it. We’ve implemented it so that people can experiment with it and we can collect feedback. At the same time […]
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Mozilla developer preview (Gecko 1.9.3a2) now available
We’ve posted a new release of our Mozilla developer preview series as a way to test new features that we’re putting into the Mozilla platform. These features may or may not make it into a future Firefox release, either for desktops or for mobile phones. But that’s why we do these releases – to get […]