Articles
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Innovating on Web Monetization: Coil and Firefox Reality
An in-depth introduction to web monetization with Coil. Coil is a payments platform that doesn't really on advertising or personal data collection to support digital content creators directly. Firefox Reality is rolling out a Coil-based experiment for creators and consumers, and you're invited to participate or learn more about how it works, and why Mozilla is involved.
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Developing cross-browser extensions with web-ext 3.2.0
The web-ext tool was created at Mozilla to help you build browser extensions faster and more easily. Although our first launch focused on support for the desktop Firefox browser, followed by Firefox for Android, our vision was always to support cross-platform development once we shipped Firefox support. With the 3.2.0 release, you can finally use
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Using WebThings Gateway notifications as a warning system for your home
The WebThings Gateway 0.9 release lets you set up a number of different notification mechanisms including emails, apps, and text messages. In this post James Hobin shows how to set up custom gateway notifications to warn you of changes in your home that you care about.
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New CSS Features in Firefox 68
Firefox 68 landed earlier this month with a bunch of CSS additions and changes. In this blog post Rachel Andrew takes a look at some of the things you can expect to find, like Scroll Snapping done right, the
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Firefox brings you smooth video playback with the world’s fastest AV1 decoder
With this week's release of Firefox 67, the new high performance royalty-free AV1 video decoder dav1d is now enabled by default on all desktop platforms (Windows, OSX and Linux) for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. And work is in progress on rav1e, the Rust AV1 encoder.
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Hack on MDN: Better accessibility for MDN Web Docs
Making websites accessible to a wide range of users is a vital topic for creators on the web. Over a long weekend in late September, more than twenty people met in London to work on accessibility on the MDN Web Docs website — both the content about accessibility and the accessibility of the site itself. The result was a considerable refresh and new opportunities to continue the projects begun.
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New API to Bring Augmented Reality to the Web
The WebXR Device API has two goals that differentiate it from WebVR: support for new user inputs like voice and gestural navigation, and laying a foundation for augmented reality on the web. This emerging specification aims to remove barriers so AR and VR content is accessible to creators and users alike.
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360° Images on the Web, the Easy Way
One of the most popular uses for VR today is 360° images and video. These are easy to discover and share online, and you don’t need to learn any new interactions to explore the 360° experience. But building 360° views is not as easy as exploring them. In this post, Josh shows you how to easily build a 3D tour using A-Frame and Glitch.
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Progressive Web Games
Web game developer Andrzej Mazur explores the concept of Progressive Web Games. He describes howe to use PWA features built with Web APIs for modern game development. He introduces the Enclave Phaser Template (EPT) — a free, open sourced mobile boilerplate for HTML5 games that provides many shortcuts for getting started.
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Firefox 60 – Modules and More
Firefox 60 continues the evolution of Quantum. The parallel processing of Quantum CSS comes to Firefox for Android, while WebRender work is ongoing. Potch reports on two security upgrades - support for the Web Authentication API and for the Same-Site attribute for cookies - as well the arrival of ES modules. Firefox Quantum for Enterprise, our Extended Support Release, is now available for large installations. Read all about it!