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Firefox and the Web Speech API
Speech Synthesis and recognition are powerful tools to have available on computers, and they have become quite widespread in this modern age — look at tools like Cortana, Dictation and Siri on popular modern OSes, and accessibility tools like screenreaders. But what about the Web? To be able to issue voice commands directly to a […]
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Building games for Firefox OS TV
With Firefox OS focused on a world of connected devices, it’s a good time to start building games for new and different displays. Panasonic offers a variety of Firefox OS-powered TVs — in this article we’ll outline how developing HTML5 games for huge television screens differs from the smartphone approach.
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Trainspotting: Firefox in 2015
Trainspotting is a series of articles highlighting features in the lastest version of Firefox. A new version of Firefox is shipped every six weeks- we at Mozilla call this pattern "release trains". The year is coming to a close, and even as the coals of 2015 fade to a soft orange, we've got Firefox releases […]
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Developer Edition 45 – Animations, Memory Tools and More
Firefox Developer Edition 45 has improvements to DevTools that will help you track down memory usage, dig into CSS animations, and more. In this post we’ll cover some of these changes – be sure to download the latest Developer Edition to try them yourself. CSS animation tool++ The animation tool has many additions: When you […]
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Beyond Offline
This is my first post on Mozilla Hacks and despite my personal blog, it is my first post as a mozillian (yay!). During this month I’ve been working in the Service Worker Cookbook project —part of the Web Application Developer Initiative (WADI)— which gives me the opportunity to put my expertise in Service Workers into […]
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Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening!
WebAssembly is a new binary format for compilation to the web. It is in the process of being designed and implemented as we speak, in collaboration among the major browser vendors. Things are moving quickly! In this post we’ll show some of our recent progress with a deep dive into the toolchain side of WebAssembly. […]
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Bringing the Power of SIMD.js to gl-matrix
Background: SIMD.js Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data (SIMD) is a technique used in modern processors to exploit data level parallelism. SIMD introduces wide vectors that can hold multiple data elements. Once loaded, all of the vector’s elements can be processed simultaneously using one vector operation. This brings the advantages of better performance and energy efficiency. The parallelism offered by […]
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From game jam to mobile and Firefox OS
I love participating in game jams, where game developers get together to craft games in a very short amount of time. I thought it would be cool to take one of my past Game Jam games, Metal vs Hipsters, and port it to the mobile web and Firefox OS. Adapting to mobile My starting point […]
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Web Push notifications from Irssi
Our main communication tool at Mozilla is IRC. I’m running an IRC client called Irssi under screen on a server constantly connected to the network. It’s a close-to-perfect solution with only two outstanding issues for me. One is the lack of emoji characters (I can live with that). The other is more important: there is […]
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Offline Web Apps on GitHub Pages
Service Workers are a response to the problems of Application Cache, and they’re a powerful and elegant way to offline your web app. But they’re also more complex to implement and maintain. Meanwhile, GitHub Pages is a great, simple static host for offline-first apps. But deploying apps to GitHub Pages requires manual configuration, especially if […]
