Articles by louisremi
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Aurora 8 is here
Today we release Aurora Update 8. We’ve got even more HTML5 support, support for cross-origin textures in WebGL, support for insertAdjacentHTML() and reduced resource requirements for media elements. Cross-origin WebGL textures We disabled support for cross-origin textures in Firefox 5 due to security concerns. You can now use cross-origin textures in Aurora Update 8, although […]
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Firefox 6 is here
What’s new in Firefox 6? The most notable addition to this new release are the <progress> element, touch events, Server-Sent Events as well as the return of WebSockets. The <progress> element This element can be used to give a visual cue of something in progress in the page. System progress bars are being used, which […]
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Animating with javascript: from setInterval to requestAnimationFrame
Animating DOM elements[1] or the content of a canvas is a classical use case for setInterval. But the interval is not as reliable as it seems, and a more suitable API is now available… Animating with setInterval To animate an element moving 400 pixels on the right with javascript, the basic thing to do is […]
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Aurora 7 is here
Keeping up the pace with our new development cycle, today we release Aurora 7. Enjoy its new features and performance improvements: CSS “text-overflow: ellipsis“, Navigation Timing API, reduced memory usage, a faster javascript parser, and the first steps of Azure, our new graphics API. text-overflow: ellipsis; It is now possible to get Firefox to display […]
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Firefox 5 is here
Today, three months after the release of Firefox 4, we release Firefox 5, thanks to our new development cycle. Developers will be able to create richer animations using CSS3 Animations. This release comes with various improvements, performance optimization and bug fixes. CSS3 Animations CSS Animations (check out the documentation) are a new way to create […]
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A Wall Powered by EventSource and Server-Sent Events
EventSource landed in Aurora 6. It is a new and simplified way to open long-lived connections to a server, and let the browser create events as the server streams messages to the client. It is also available in Chrome and Opera and there are fallback solutions for other browsers. Creating a wall/feed for a social […]
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The <progress> element
The <progress> element just landed in Firefox Aurora (to be Firefox 6). As its name indicate, this element can be used to give visual clues of anything in progress on a Web page: a set of ressources being downloaded, a file being uploaded, a computing Web Worker, a WebGL scene being initialized… Following is a […]
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Doom on the Web
Update: We had a doubt whether this port of the Open Source Doom respected its term of use. We decided to remove it from our Website before taking an informed and definitive decision. This is a guest post written by Alon Zakai. Alon is one of the Firefox Mobile developers, and in his spare time […]
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Aurora 6 is here
What’s new in Aurora 6? The most notable addition to this new Aurora are the <progress> element, window.matchMedia API, better APIs for binary data, Server-Sent Events as well as the return of WebSockets. Aurora 6 has been published last week and can be downloaded from firefox.com/channel. The <progress> element This element can be used to […]
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Advanced animations in Aurora with CSS3 Animations
Firefox 4 came with CSS3 Transitions (ability to animate CSS properties from an initial value to a final one). In Firefox Aurora, we are experimenting with CSS3 Animations: a more powerful way to animate your content with CSS. Defining the animation The first thing is to define the intermediary CSS values of the properties to […]
