Articles
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NORAD Tracks Santa
This year, Open Web standards like WebGL, Web Workers, Typed Arrays, Fullscreen, and more will have a prominent role in NORAD’s annual mission to track Santa Claus as he makes his journey around the world. That’s because Analytical Graphics, Inc. used Cesium as the basis for the 3D Track Santa application. Cesium is an open […]
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Announcing the November Dev Derby winners!
Last month, some of the most creative web developers out there showed us what they could do with the Fullscreen API in the November Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our three expert judges–Christian Heilmann, Dave Rupert and Eric Shepherd–decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not a contestant? There are other reasons […]
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Fantastic front-end performance Part 1 – Concatenate, Compress & Cache – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 4
This is episode 4, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the first post about how to achieve better front-end performance. In this part of our “A Node.JS Holiday Season” series we’ll talk about front-end performance and introduce you to tools we’ve built and use […]
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The Web We Lost, Heroku Automates Automation, Why moving elements with translate() is better – Hacks Weekly
The Web We Lost, Heroku Automates Automation, Why moving elements with translate() is better and more this week from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team!
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Firefox Development Highlights – Per Window Private Browsing & Canvas' globalCompositeOperation new values
On a regular basis, we like to highlight the latest features in Firefox for developers, as part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). Per Window Private Browsing Private browsing is very useful for web developers. A new private session doesn’t include existing […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, December 19th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles AngularJS JavaScript MVC Framework and SEO JS adolescence Compiling to JavaScript: What, Why, and How? JavaScript APIs you’ve never heard of (and some you have) Responsive Images: What We Thought We Needed Resources Craft.js – small but powerful JavaScript framework Cool HTML Visual Test Tool ScrobMaster – Master […]
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A tale of a CSS3 Animation Demo
Once upon a time, there was this good hearted web developer, who was everyday worried about learning new cool things and trying new crazy stuff his browser could barely be able to do. Also, there were some giants, working hard to increase the power of the magic web, allowing all the peoples to live, code, […]
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How MDN and Web Platform Docs Align
We have been asked a number of questions since the launch of Web Platforms Docs (WPD) about how it aligns with the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN). Questions such as how content will be shared between the two, how changes will be tracked, who will do the work to port content, and which site people should […]
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Launcher.io – Launch and run free open-source web applications in just 30 seconds – a WebFWD project
There is no longer any doubt: web apps are the focal point of the cloud. From database-as-a-service to platform-as-a-service to security-as-a-service and beyond, the entire *aaS model has the web app as its center of gravity. If you’re a full-fledged developer, then taking full advantage of an app-centric universe is no big deal. Creating new […]
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Comic Gen – a canvas-run comic generator
The first time I wanted to participate on Dev Derby was on the May 2012 challenge, where the rules were that you should use websockets. At that time I thought that I could use NodeJS and SocketIO. But the time kept running and I ended not having any cool ideas for an app. Since then […]