Articles
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, May 31st 2012
Time again for some links we in Mozilla’s Developer Engagement Team would like you to see!
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The Web Developer Toolbox: Raphaël
This is the first of a series of articles dedicated to the useful libraries that all web developers should have in their toolbox. My intent is to show you what those libraries can do and help you to use them at their best. This first article is dedicated to the Raphaël library. Introduction Raphaël is […]
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May Dev Derby: Show us what you can do with Websockets
The May Dev Derby is underway. A monthly contest hosted by the Mozilla Developer Network, the Dev Derby gives you the chance to apply the technology you read about on this blog, push the web forward, and compete for fame, glory, and prizes. This month, we are excited to see what you can do with […]
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MDN First steps
This is a guest post by Jérémie Patonnier. This article was originally published in French. For two years now, Jérémie has been an active contributor to MDN. He organizes short doc sprints each Wednesday evening at the Mozilla Paris office. During those events, people ask a lot of questions about MDN and how to contribute. […]
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Happy Pi Day!
As today is Pi Day have you ever realised that rotating 3.14 180 degrees almost spells “PI.E”? JSFiddle demo. And yes, Firefox 11 is now official, bring on the 3D transforms.
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Developing a simple HTML5 space shooter
Experimenting with modern web technologies is always fun. For my latest project, I came up with the following requirements: Not a complex game, rather a proof-of-concept Space shooter theme Canvas-based rendering, but no WebGL Re-use of existing sprites (I am no artist) Rudimentary audio support AI/Bots Working network multiplayer I worked on this project only […]
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Mozilla and the Mobile Web API evolution
As part of making the web in general, and mobile devices in particular, an even richer web platform, we at Mozilla work with our WebAPI initiative. The other day our CTO Brendan Eich blogged about our part and progress and we wanted to make that information available here as well.
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Tantek Çelik about the importance of Web Standards
This is the fourth installment of Mission:Mozilla, a series of interviews that link Mozillians, the technology they produce and the Mozilla mission. This time, We’re interviewing Tantek Çelik, a long-time Web standards contributor. He started working on web standards at Microsoft in 1998, while leading the development of Tasman, the IE Mac rendering engine, and […]
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Moving browsers and the web forward (video)
A few days ago I was asked to deliver the first talk of the amazing Beyond Tellerand conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. The talk Breaking the barriers – moving browsers and the web forward introduced a lot of new ideas and technologies that are worked on my Mozilla and others to make the web of the […]
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Screencast: CSS 3D rollover with fallback for older browsers
Here’s a quick screencast how to create a 3D image rollover and still give a useful interface to browsers that do not support 3D transforms. If you want to see the effect in Firefox get the latest Aurora or Nightly. Check the following video to see what it looks like (first with a browser without […]