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Interview: Vanco Stojkov, winner of the No JavaScript Challenge
Vanco Stojkov won the highly contested No JavaScript Challenge with Honey Pursuit: Yet Another Love Saga, his wonderful bee-inspired open Web game. Amazingly, Honey Pursuit does not use a single line of JavaScript, but instead exploits the growing power of HTML and CSS to manage everything from keeping score to hit detection. I recently had […]
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Hacks Weekly – Responsive Design planning, flexbox explorer, Hugepic.io and more
This week, Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team wants you to read about Responsive Design planning, an explorer for testing flexbox, Hugepic.io to show large images and much more!
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Firefox OS – video presentations and slides on the OS, WebAPIs, hacking and writing apps
In August, Mozilla’s Director of Research Andreas Gal, and one of the lead engineers for Firefox OS, Philipp von Weitershausen, gave a couple of presentations in Brazil about Firefox OS. We’re now happy to share both the videos and the slides, in various formats for you to see or use, giving your own presentations! Videos […]
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Tracking Down Memory Leaks in Node.js – A Node.JS Holiday Season
This post is the first in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from the Identity team at Mozilla, who last month delivered the first beta release of Persona. To make Persona, we built a collection tools addressing areas ranging from debugging, to localization, to dependency management, and more. This series of posts will share our […]
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Progress update on WebRTC for Firefox on desktop
WebRTC for desktop is now in Firefox Nightly and is also in Firefox Aurora, though Nightly has the hottest up-to-date fixes. We support mozGetUserMedia, mozRTCPeerConnection and DataChannels. We have a basic UI for mozGetUserMedia which we expect to be updating in the coming weeks. Enabling WebRTC in Firefox The code is behind a pref for […]
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HTML5 mythbusting
The ongoing discussion about the “readiness” of HTML5 is based on a lot of false assumptions. These lead to myths about HTML5 that get uttered once and then continuously repeated – a lot of times without checking their validity at all. HTML5 doesn’t perform? The big thing everybody who wants to talk about the problems […]
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Hacks Weekly – Compressive images, JavaScript MVC, C++ ported 3D racing game to WebGL and more
The web moves on and interesting things pop up! Here are this week’s link from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team.
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Leave No One Behind with HTML5 – presentation at FFWD.PRO in Zagreb, Croatia
In June I had the pleasure to speak at the FFWD.PRO conference in Zagreb, Croatia, about HTML5, progressive enhancement and new features and suggested APIs. I had previously spoken with Marko Dugonjic and said that he should really organize a conference in Croatia. Said and done, he acted on it and created FFWD.PRO! So, naturally, […]
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Announcing the September Dev Derby winners!
Last month, web developers young and old showed us what they could do with Geolocation in the September Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our three expert judges–David Walsh, Joe Stagner and John Hammink–have decided on our top picks. Not a contestant? There are many other reasons to be excited. Most importantly, all […]
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Hacks Weekly – CSS Flexbox, Designing JavaScript APIs, WebSockets and more
This week Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team think you should read more about , amongst other things!