Articles by Christopher Blizzard
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What's new for Web Developers in Firefox 7
Today we’re releasing Firefox Update 7. This update contains work that’s been stabilizing over the last 3 months and there are quite a few interesting things to talk about. To be clear, this is not the canonical list of changes, just highlights. As always, we’ve created a page to track the changes that web developers […]
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autobuffering video in Firefox
John Gruber recently wrote up an article titled Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in the Browsers Which Support It He’s mostly upset that browsers don’t respect the autobuffer attribute. Or, really, that browsers autobuffer by default. Safari and Chrome do apparently autobuffer by default, but he incorrectly says that Firefox does […]
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Firefox 3.6 FileAPI demo: reading EXIF data from a local JPEG file
Paul Rouget has put together a great demo of the new FileAPI we’re including in Firefox 3.6. It lets you drag a JPG from the desktop into the browser that includes EXIF data and it can extract the GPS coordinates in the image and then load the location of where the photo was taken, entirely […]
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WebGL goes mobile
Vlad was nice enough to put together a video of his recent work to bring WebGL to mobile phones. This demo was done on the first phone that supports Firefox, the Nokia N900. For more information about WebGL check back here or follow planet WebGL.
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pointer-events for HTML in Firefox 3.6
The pointer-events CSS property has long been available as part of SVG as a way to control if a mouse event should be sent to the element directly underneath the mouse or passed through to an element underneath it. In Firefox 3.6 we’ve extended the property to allow it to apply to normal HTML content […]
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building beautiful buttons with css gradients
A special thanks to Ryan Doherty for building this demo and making it easy for me to turn it into a tutorial. In this demo we’ll walk through a simple use case for the new gradient capabilities coming in Firefox 3.6 (see related article). We’ll build a nice-looking embossed and beveled button using gradients and […]
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5 years of Firefox
Firefox is five years old. We thought that we would celebrate that by talking about how the web has changed over the last five years and Firefox’s role in those changes. Where We’re At 2009 has been an interesting year. We’re at a crossroads for the Internet. In the next 12 months or so we’re […]
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a 20 second survey to help improve hacks.mozilla.org
I asked this on the mozhacks twitter account earlier today but I’d like to get more feedback: what’s your single favorite thing about hacks.mozilla.org? The survey is totally anonymous and takes 20 seconds or so. It’s limited, much like twitter, to a very short response. If you have ideas on improvement there’s room for that […]
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the tristan washing machine
This is another demo from Paul Rouget. It’s a very simple demonstration of what you can do when you combine video, SVG and some fun transformations. View the Demo in Firefox 3.5 This puts a HTML5-based <video> element into an SVG document like so: Lots of code and many attributes removed for clarity. Please view […]
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color correction for images in Firefox 3.5
Back in Firefox 3, we introduced support for color profiles in tagged images, but it was disabled by default. In Firefox 3.5 we were able to make the color correction process about 5x faster than it was in Firefox 3 so we’ve enabled support for color correction for tagged images. Most images on the web […]
