Articles by Jason Weathersby
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Reintroducing the Firefox Developer Tools, part 2: the Scratchpad and the Style Editor
This is part two, out of five, focusing on the built-in Developer Tools in Firefox, their features and where we are now with them. The intention is to show you all the possibilities available, the progress and what we are aiming for. In the first post in the series we discussed the Web Console and […]
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Introducing the Firefox OS App Manager
The Firefox OS App Manager is a new developer tool available in Firefox 26 that greatly improves the process of building and debugging Firefox OS apps, either in the Simulator or on a connected device. Based on the the Firefox OS Simulator add-on, it bridges the gap between existing Firefox Developer tools and the Firefox […]
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Reintroducing the Firefox Developer Tools, part 1: the Web Console and the JavaScript Debugger
This is part one, out of 5, focusing on the built-in Developer Tools in Firefox, their features and where we are now with them. The intention is to show you all the possibilities available, the progress and what we are aiming for. Firefox 4 saw the launch of the Web Console, the first of the […]
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Pushing a Firefox OS Web App to ZTE Open phone
ZTE recently announced release of the ZTE Open Firefox OS phone, a device aimed at developers and early adopters. In this post we cover the basic details of connecting and configuring your desktop environment to push Apps to the ZTE Open from the Firefox OS Simulator. Setting Up the ZTE Open Before pushing or debugging […]
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Localizing Firefox OS Apps
Firefox OS Apps are being used around the world—Spain, Poland, Colombia and Venezuela with many more countries coming—so it’s important to consider localizing your app from the beginning. But with the open web being as open as it is, there are many frameworks and technologies to pick from when it comes to localization. For example, […]
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Updating and Tweaking your Firefox OS Developer Preview phone/Geeksphone
Developer Preview editions of the Firefox OS phone are now becoming widely available to the community, mainly through Geeksphone. Since these are for developers, naturally we want to encourage you to tinker and play with them as much as possible! In this post we will cover some basic tips on how to keep your phone […]
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Pushing Firefox OS Apps to the Geeksphone
A push to device feature was added in the 3.0 release of the Firefox OS Simulator. This feature allows web apps to be pushed to a connected device by clicking one button in the Simulator Dashboard. Availability of the Developer Preview Phone from Geeksphone has raised interest in the feature, so this post will detail […]