Articles
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Real-time server visualization with canvas and processing.js
This is a guest blog post by Logan Welliver, Chief Creative at Cloudkick. He is a graphic designer by training and a web designer in practice. Cloud management company Cloudkick has released a real-time server monitoring visualization based on canvas and processing.js, that was co-developed with Alastair McDonald of processing.js fame. The product is designed […]
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Theora on N900
This is a re-post from Matthew Gregan’s personal weblog on the work that he’s been doing to bring HTML5 open video to mobile devices. Google recently announced funding for some work to bring Theora to ARM devices via a CPU-driven code path. Mozilla has been funding similar work over the last year or so to […]
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the new about:hacks newsletter
Yesterday, we published the first issue of about:hacks, Mozilla’s newsletter for web developers. If you asked to receive news and updates from Mozilla in our November survey, it should be waiting for you in your inbox. About:hacks will be published monthly, and will include demos, tutorials, Firefox release information, the latest on web standards and […]
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css3 columns on the web
Today’s Demo covers the use of CSS3 Columns and was written by Karl Dubost. Karl is a self-proclaimed hedonist, dreamer and always exploring the Open Web for creative spaces. Read About CSS3 Columns and View the Demo in Firefox 3.5
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debugging painting with MozAfterPaint
This was originally posted by Robert O’Callahan in the Mozilla web-tech blog. It’s an interesting feature in Firefox 3.5 and is worth repeating here as part of our 35 days effort. In addition, Thomas Robinson has created a very handy bookmarklet for debugging painting on a page you’ve loaded in the browser. Due to popular […]
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Lots to see in Firefox 93!
Firefox 93 comes with lots of lovely updates including AVIF image format support, filling of XFA-based forms in its PDF viewer and protection against insecure downloads by blocking downloads relying on insecure connections.
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Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer
Last year, during lockdown, many discovered the importance of PDF forms when having to deal remotely with administrations and large organizations like banks. Firefox supported displaying PDF forms, but it didn’t support filling them: users had to print them, fill them by hand, and scan them back to digital form. We decided it was time to reinvest in the PDF viewer (PDF.js) and support filling PDF forms within Firefox to make our users' lives easier.
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A Fabulous February Firefox — 86!
Looking into the near distance, we can see the end of February loitering on the horizon, threatening to give way to March at any moment. To keep you engaged until then, we’d like to introduce you to Firefox 86.
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January brings us Firefox 85
To wrap up January, we are proud to bring you the release of Firefox 85. In this version we are bringing you support for the :focus-visible pseudo-class in CSS and associated devtools, , and the complete removal of Flash support from Firefox. We’d also like to invite you to preview two exciting new JavaScript features in the current Firefox Nightly — top-level await and relative indexing via the .at() method. Have fun!
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Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers
Browsers are changing the default value of the
SameSite
attribute for cookies fromNone
toLax
. This will greatly improve security for users. However, some web sites may depend (even unknowingly) on the old default, potentially resulting in site breakage. At Mozilla, we are slowly introducing this change. And we urge web developers to test their sites with the new default.