Articles by Havi Hoffman
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Mozilla Hacks’ 10 most-read posts of 2019
Mozilla Hacks covered plenty of interesting territory in 2019. Our most popular posts introduced experiments and special projects, and described the evolution of groundbreaking platform technologies like WebAssembly and WASI. Mozilla WebThings continued to engage attention and adoption. And interest in Firefox releases and Firefox DevTools was stronger than ever. Read on.
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Mozilla Hacks’ 10 most-read posts of 2018
Our top posts this year were read by hundreds of thousands of developers and ranged across a variety of categories - including JavaScript and WebAssembly, CSS, the Web of Things, and Firefox Quantum. (Featured image is by Lin Clark.)
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Paying it forward at Global Diversity CFP Day
Global Diversity CFP Day takes place on Saturday, February 3, 2018. It’s a decentralized, locally organized free event that's a safe space for people to get started as technical conference speakers. The workshop is designed to help you craft and submit a talk proposal to an event with an open CFP and a stated Code of Conduct. Especially designed for people who are typically under-represented at tech events, free workshops will take place on the same day at dozens of locations all over the planet
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View Source Conference Berlin 2016
An overview View Source is an intimate, single-track conference for web developers, now in its second year. View Source 2016 takes place in Berlin, Germany, September 12-14, beginning with Ignite lightning talks on Monday evening, followed by two full days of great presenters, curated conversations, and sociable evenings. Tickets are still on sale. Here’s a […]
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View Source Conference: 16 great reasons to join us in Portland
What, when, where View Source is a brand new conference for web developers, presented by Mozilla and friends, produced by the folks who also bring you the Mozilla Developer Network, to share knowledge of the Open Web. It’s a single track event with plenty of time and space for discussion, demos, and hallway conversations. Talks […]
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Keyboard events in Firefox OS TV
Getting started The behavior of input events via hardware keys in Firefox OS varies widely from app to app. Early smartphones came with a limited number of keys — Power, Home, Volume up, Volume down — so it was easy for the software to determine an appropriate response for each keypress event. However, Smart TV […]
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2014: Mozilla Hacks looks back
Wherever you live, it’s a season of work holidays, school vacations, year-end blog posts, and lists. The Hacks blog will be back in early January 2015 to continue writing for developers about the products and technologies created by Mozilla and by builders of the Open Web around the world. In the (chronological) list below, we […]
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You can’t go wrong watching JavaScript talks
Late last week, I was collecting suggestions for year-end Hacks blog posts. As she headed out for the winter holidays, apps engineer Soledad Penadés gifted me “a bunch of cool talks I watched this year.” In fact, it’s a curated collection of presentations from JSConf, JSConf EU, and other recent developer conferences. Presenters include notable […]
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QuaggaJS – Building a barcode-scanner for the Web
Have your ever tried to type in a voucher code on your mobile phone or simply enter the number of your membership card into a web form? These are just two examples of time-consuming and error-prone tasks which can be avoided by taking advantage of printed barcodes. This is nothing new; many solutions exist for […]
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Videos and Firefox OS
Before HTML5 Those were dark times Harry, dark times – Rubeus Hagrid Before HTML5, displaying video on the Web required browser plugins and Flash. Luckily, Firefox OS supports HTML5 video so we don’t need to support these older formats. Video support on the Web Even though modern browsers support HTML5, the video formats they support […]