Articles by Angelina Fabbro
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Audio Tags: Web Components + Web Audio = ♥
Article written by Soledad Penadés, edited by Angelina Fabbro. Last week we released Brick 1.0, our carefully curated set of web components for rapid development. Using components makes it very easy to use and integrate these UI widgets with existing code and frameworks. And this week we bring you Audio Tags, an experiment building Web […]
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Custom Elements for Custom Applications – Web Components with Mozilla's Brick and X-Tag
In this article, we will explore the use of Mozilla’s Brick and X-Tag libraries. First we’ll use Brick to rapidly prototype a simple application. Then, we’ll build a custom web component using X-Tag. The Technology Brick: Curated Web Components Brick is a set of modular, reusable UI components. The components are designed for adaptive, responsive […]
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localForage: Offline Storage, Improved
Web apps have had offline capabilities like saving large data sets and binary files for some time. You can even do things like cache MP3 files. Browser technology can store data offline and plenty of it. The problem, though, is that the technology choices for how you do this are fragmented. localStorage gets you really […]
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Using JSFiddle to Prototype Firefox OS Apps
Dancing to the Tune of the Fiddle JSFiddle is a fantastic prototyping and code review tool. It’s great for getting out a quick test case or code concept without having to spool up your full tool chain and editor. Further, it’s a great place to paste ill-behaved code so that others can review it and […]
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Firefox OS Simulator 4.0 released
It’s a good day for Firefox OS developers as we are releasing version 4.0 of the Firefox OS Simulator to the masses. In particular, this release is a boon for those developers that want to make money using their app in the Marketplace. What’s New in 4.0 An overview shot of the revised Dashboard New […]