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Responsive Patterns, automatic jQuery app tester, RESTClient for debugging – Hacks Weekly
Responsive Patterns, automatic jQuery app tester, RESTCLient for debugging RESTful web services are just some of the things Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team want to recommend to you this week!
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Linklib – lets film lovers and filmmakers send time synced links from videos to phones – a WebFWD project
Have you ever googled films and TV-shows while you watch them? Do you think Youtube’s popup annotations in the middle of a video are distracting? Having shot a documentary about the Pirate Bay for 4 years I wanted to embed links directly into the film to give the audience more nuances in the complex and […]
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Firefox OS Simulator 1.0 is here!
Three weeks back, we introduced the Firefox OS Simulator, a tool that allows web developers to try out their apps in Firefox OS from the comfort of their current Windows/Mac/Linux computers. We’ve seen a number of comments from people who used the Simulator as an easy way to get a peek at Firefox OS today, […]
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fxosstub – a minimalist's working example of the design guide rules for Firefox OS
This post is written by Pierre Richard, Principal, Jaxo, Inc. I know, by experience and practice, the importance of the first hours—or even the first minutes—spent discovering and learning new concepts. During this period, developers take their go/no-go decision, mostly based on the apparent complexity of what they see. Once you gain expertise in a […]
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Firebug 1.11 New Features
Firebug 1.11 has been released and so, let’s take a look at some of the new features introduced in this version. First of all, check out the following compatibility table: Firebug 1.10 with Firefox 13.0 – 17.0 Firebug 1.11 with Firefox 17.0 – 20.0 Firebug 1.11 is open source project surrounded by contributors and volunteers […]
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headtrackr for real-time face tracking, smartphone features you never thought of, HTML5 Forms support + more in Hacks Weekly
This week Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team suggest reading about headtrackr for real-time face tracking, smartphone features you never thought of using, Web browser support for HTML5 Forms and more!
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Performance with JavaScript String Objects
This article aims to take a look at the performance of JavaScript engines towards primitive value Strings and Object Strings. It is a showcase of benchmarks related to the excellent article by Kiro Risk, The Wrapper Object. Before proceeding, I would suggest visiting Kiro’s page first as an introduction to this topic. The ECMAScript 5.1 […]
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Firefox Development Highlights: video.playbackRate and download attribute
Here are 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). <video>: support for custom playbackRate Setting video.playbackRate changes the “video speed”. 1.0 is regular speed, 2.0 is 2 times faster. From the MDN documentation on […]
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Using secure client-side sessions to build simple and scalable Node.JS applications – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 3
This is episode 3, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It covers using sessions for scalable Node.js applications. Static websites are easy to scale. You can cache the heck out of them and you don’t have state to propagate between the various servers that deliver […]
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Results of the Fall 2012 MDN virtual doc sprint
Over the weekend of November 30 to December 2, a hardy band of MDN contributors came together virtually (via IRC and etherpad) to work on improving documentation on MDN for Web standards and for Mozilla’s open technology and the project itself. Below are the highlights of the weekend’s activities. Web standards docs Saurabh Anand added […]