Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android and iOS with one tool? We believe the Web is powerful enough to offer a Mobile Web development solution that meets these needs! Enter an experimental Firefox add-on called […]
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Videos: getting started with your Flame device
The Flame Developer reference phone is currently on its way to developers who either are Mozillians, bought them or have created apps for it. You can buy the flame device online at everbuying, for $170 including postage and packing and world-wide delivery. There is no contract and not obligation to a mobile provider. This is […]
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Building Firefox Hub Add-ons for Firefox for Android
The Firefox Hub APIs allow add-ons to add new panels to the Firefox for Android home page, where users normally find their top sites, bookmarks and history. These APIs were introduced in Firefox 30, but there are more features and bug fixes in Firefox 31 and 32. You can already find some of these add-ons […]
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Resources for HTML5 game developers
Today we released Firefox 31 and it offers a couple of new features that help HTML5 game developers to code and debug sophisticated games. In addition Mozilla blogged about the first commercial games leveraging asm.js, Dungeon Defenders Eternity and Cloud Raiders both of which were cross-compiled in to JavaScript using the Emscripten compiler. Games like […]
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Mozilla at conferences – June edition
Welcome to a quick round-up of what Mozillians have been talking about at events in and around June. Frédéric Harper spoke at Devoxx UK about “Getting the best out of your design with responsive web design“ Robert Nyman spoke at JSCamp Romania about “Five stages of development (slides – video)” David Baron spoke at CSS […]
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It's a wrap! "App Basics for FirefoxOS" is out and ready to get you started
A week ago we announced a series of video tutorials around creating HTML5 apps for Firefox OS. Now we released all the videos and you can watch the series in one go. Photo by Olliver Hallmann The series is aimed at web developers who want to build their first HTML5 application. Specifically it is meant […]
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App basics for Firefox OS – a screencast series to get you started
Over the next few days we’ll release a series of screencasts explaining how to start your first Open Web App and develop for Firefox OS. Each of the screencasts is terse enough to watch in a short break and the whole series should not take you more than an hour of your time. The series […]
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Technical Blogger? Mozillian? Here's a plugin for you to tell us about your work!
One great thing about Mozilla is that we want people to have a voice. Our products give people a voice on the web without being spied on. As a Mozillian, you don’t have to go through various levels of red tape before you are allowed to speak out in public. As Mozilla grows, it becomes […]
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Upcoming changes to the Firefox Developer tools node picker
If you are a user of the Firefox Developer tools you’ll soon see a change of the node picker of the Page Inspector component. As documented on Bugzilla and reported by Patrick Brosset these changes mean: The node inspect button in the devtools has moved from the inspector-panel toolbar, on the left, to the toolbox […]
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CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly
As reported by Cameron McCormack, Firefox Nightly (version 29) now supports CSS variables. You can get a quick overview in this short screencast: You can define variables in a context with a var- prefix and then implement them using the var() instruction. For example: :root { var-companyblue: #369; var-lighterblue: powderblue; } h1 { color: var(companyblue); […]
