Articles by Alix Franquet
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quarterly developer survey update
We are inviting developers to give us feedback through quarterly surveys so we can better understand your needs. Your feedback is crucial to help us build the best platform, tools, and content. Last November, we asked web developers to take a 20 question survey to help build the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN). Thanks to the […]
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Mozilla developer preview (Gecko 1.9.3a1) available for download
Editor’s note: Today, Mozilla released a preview of the Gecko 1.9.3 platform for developers and testers. Check out the Mozilla Developer News announcement reposted below. A Mozilla Developer Preview of improvements in the Gecko layout engine is now available for download. This is a pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.3 platform, which forms the core […]
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About:hacks newsletter – issue 2
Last week we sent out the second issue of about:hacks, Mozilla’s newsletter for web developers. Here are highlights from the topics covered in this new issue: Firefox 3.6 released: what’s new, how to give feedback Firefox for the Nokia N900 with Weave Sync released Developer Tools: Firebug 1.5 Demos: an HTML5 image editor and uploader, […]
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Firefox 3.6 feedback
Firefox 3.6 was released on Jan 21st and has already been downloaded more than 35 million times! It features a faster JavaScript engine, faster DOM performance and a bunch of new HTML5 features. Highlights for web developers include support for the WOFF font format, new CSS features like gradients and multiple backgrounds, drag and drop, […]
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Firebug 1.5: a closer look
Firebug 1.5 was released yesterday on addons.mozilla.org, where you can now download it. It’s compatible with the upcoming Firefox 3.6. If you’d like to take a more in-depth look at what’s new in Firebug 1.5, here’s a series of articles written by Firebug contributor Jan Odvarko (aka Honza): Break On Next: breaking on the next […]
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Firebug 1.5 released!
Editor’s note: today the Firebug team released Firebug 1.5. Check out Rob Campbell’s announcement reposted below. I am very happy to be able to announce the release of Firebug 1.5.0 on addons.mozilla.org. This release represents a significant effort by the Firebug Working Group which saw the addition of some new faces over the last few […]
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JavaScript speedups in Firefox 3.6
This post was written by David Mandelin who works on Mozilla’s JavaScript team. Firefox 3.5 introduced TraceMonkey, our new JavaScript engine that traces loops and JIT compiles them to native (x86/ARM) code. Many JavaScript programs ran 3-4x faster in TraceMonkey compared to Firefox 3. (See our previous article for technical details.) For JavaScript performance in […]
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the new about:hacks newsletter
Yesterday, we published the first issue of about:hacks, Mozilla’s newsletter for web developers. If you asked to receive news and updates from Mozilla in our November survey, it should be waiting for you in your inbox. About:hacks will be published monthly, and will include demos, tutorials, Firefox release information, the latest on web standards and […]
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css backgrounds in Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.6 allows you to do more with CSS backgrounds: you can use gradients, set a background size, and specify multiple backgrounds. Custom Background Size In Firefox 3.6, you can specify the size of a background image to scale it as a percentage of the element’s size, or to a specific length, using -moz-background-size. -moz-background-size: […]
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css gradients in Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.6 includes many CSS improvements. In this post we’re going to show you how to use CSS gradients. If you are running the latest beta of Firefox 3.6, you should check out our interactive demo and take a look at the corresponding code. Use the radio buttons to switch different style options on or […]
