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PlayCanvas Goes Open Source
This is a guest post by Will Eastcott of the PlayCanvas engine. As outlined in What Mozilla Hacks is, we constantly cover interesting information about open source and the Open Web, both from external as well as Mozilla authors, so feel free to share with us! On March 22nd 2011, Mozilla released Firefox 4.0 which […]
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Introducing webcompat.com
For the past few months a small group of contributors inside and outside of Mozilla have been working on webcompat.com. We just recently celebrated moving past the “too broken to share” milestone to the “functional-under-construction.gif” milestone of the project and are eager to share what we’ve been up to. There’s a more elaborate description of […]
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Build Your Next App With a Flame
Update:This program is now closed. We are no longer accepting new “phones for apps” proposals for Apps on a Flame. The form to submit is no longer available. Thanks for all the great apps built or ported for Firefox OS. If you’re still working on an app, we can’t wait to see it live in […]
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App Framework and Firefox OS
Intel’s App Framework is an open source, MIT licensed, cross platform HTML5 framework for building mobile applications. It is hosted on GitHub where you can contribute to the project, especially the Firefox OS theme. App Framework is comprised of three main areas. Query selector library UI/UX library Plugins The query selector library implements a subset […]
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Pre-orders start today for Flame, the Firefox OS developer phone
Update 2014-07-15: The pre-order period has ended and the Flame is now available as a standard order, with shipping in 7-10 days. The Firefox OS Flame reference device that we announced at end of February is now available for pre-order at everbuying.com for $170 including free shipping. Pre-order now. To standardize the design, development, and […]
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Treat Open Source Like a Startup
What am I getting myself into? I was never an open source contributor. I had never even filed a GitHub issue. I considered myself an entrepreneur who simply happened to be technical. But when the startup I wanted to build needed something that didn’t exist, I followed an unprecedented whim and paused everything I was working […]
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Creating a Multiplayer Game with TogetherJS and CreateJS
Bubble Hell Duel is a multiplayer HTML5 dogfighting game. The object of the game is to dodge bubbles launched from your opponent while returning fire. This game was written mainly as a prototype for learning and the source code is available on GitHub. You can try the game out in single or multiplayer here. Currently […]
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Developer Tools feedback channels, one week in
Editor’s Note: Thanks to everyone who took the time to share constructive feedback and ideas for Firefox Devtools via our UserVoice channel. This forum is no longer available. We’ve decided to move the conversation over to the mozilla.dev.developer-tools Google group, where the conversation is lively, and Firefox DevTools team members are available to answer questions […]
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Reconciling Mozilla's Mission and W3C EME
May 19 Update: We’ve added an FAQ below the text of the original post to address some of the questions and comments Mozilla has received regarding EME. With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EME specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EME as well so our users can continue […]
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Introducing TranslationTester and localization support for Open Web Apps
When building Open Web Apps, one important factor is to make your content available to as many possible, and one way to do that is to make it available in more than one language. Therefore we want to make it as easy as possible for you, both with a complete code repository to get started […]
