Articles
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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 […]
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H.264 video in Firefox for Android
Firefox for Android has expanded its HTML5 video capabilities to include H.264 video playback. Web developers have been using Adobe Flash to play H.264 video on Firefox for Android, but Adobe no longer supports Flash for Android. Mozilla needed a new solution, so Firefox now uses Android’s “Stagefright” library to access hardware video decoders. The […]
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Offline First – better HTML5 User Experience, Prefetching resources, Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet – Hacks Weekly
This week Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team suggest reading about Offline First – A better HTML5 User Experience, Prefetching resources, the Ultimate Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet and more!
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Codebender: physical programming on the web – a WebFWD project
What is codebender? What problem does it solve? Whereas the cloud-based, software-as-a-service development has made it easy to develop by reading some tutorials and start hacking, physical computing is lacking far behind. This used to be in part due to the difficulty of designing hardware, but platforms such as the Arduino have made this a […]
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A Conversation With Appeio Developer Harold Fudge
Editor’s note: Appeio is no longer available, and Harold is now spending his time with his consultancy. Last month we released Firefox Marketplace on the Aurora channel of Firefox for Android. This release has given developers an opportunity to start building a base of early adopters and get feedback on apps as the Marketplace grows. […]
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The World Beyond MVC, Web App Mistakes, Commercial freedom + more – Hacks Weekly
Talking about The World Beyond MVC, Web App Mistakes, Commercial freedom and more! Here are this week’s link tips from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team.
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JAL – Just Another Loader for JavaScript
A long time ago I saw the film "Interview with the vampire" starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst. The scene that struck me the most is when Pitt's character realizes that Lestat is using him in order to adapt to the current age. For a developer this is not a very bad rule. […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, November 21th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Asynchronous programming and continuation-passing style in JavaScript Clone Anything with JavaScript HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals – Development for Absolute Beginners Backbonification: migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js JavaScript DocumentFragment Resources jQuery-Form-Validator jPanelMenu – a jQuery plugin that creates a paneled-style menu Responsive Img – […]
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Progress on OMTC, unprefixed Visibility API and CSS improvements – Firefox Development Highlights
To keep all you web developers in the loop about new features and improvements in Firefox, and to be able to test and experiment in an early stage, here’s the latest Firefox Development Highlights. This is part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to […]