Articles by Paul Rouget
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Firefox 4: hardware acceleration
Editor’s note: If you’ve arrived here via the Mozilla Support site because you are exploring advanced settings or having frequent crashes at startup, this probably isn’t the right solution. It’s been a few years since Firefox 4 was released and this post was written. You might want to visit this Troubleshooting page instead. What is […]
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BrowserQuest – a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment
It’s time for some gaming action with a new HTML5 game demo: BrowserQuest, a massively multiplayer adventure game created by Little Workshop (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck) and Mozilla. Play the game: browserquest.mozilla.org BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No […]
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Firefox 4: CSS3 calc()
This article describes the CSS3 calc() value. This feature hasn’t landed yet in any Firefox tree but work to implement it is underway. Firefox will support the CSS calc() value, which lets you compute a length value using an arithmetic expression. This means you can use it to define the sizes of divs, the values […]
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Tilt: Visualize your Web page in 3D
Tilt is a Firefox extension that lets you visualize any web page DOM tree in 3D. It is being developed by Victor Porof (3D developer responsible with the Firefox extension itself), along with Cedric Vivier (creating a WebGL optimized equivalent to the privileged canvas.drawWindow, see #653656) and Rob Campbell (who first thought about creating a […]
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The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model
This article about the Flexible Box Layout was written by Jérémie Patonnier, French open Web enthusiast. The flexible box model CSS 3 introduces a brand new box model in addition of the traditional box model from CSS 1 and 2. The flexible box model determines the way boxes are distributed inside other boxes and the […]
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Firefox 4 Beta 2 is here – Welcome CSS3 transitions
As we have explained before, Mozilla is now making more frequent updates to our beta program. So here it is, Firefox Beta 2 has just been released, 3 weeks after Beta 1. Firefox 4 Beta 1 already brought a large amount of new features (see the Beta 1 feature list). So what’s new for web […]
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Firefox 3.6 is here!
Firefox 3.6 has some cool consumer facing features like Personas and a better Plug-in Updater, but developers have a lot to be excited about too. Developers will appreciate the increased stability, especially the work done to prevent crashes with third party software. There are also enhancements like improved JavaScript performance and optimizations to speed up […]
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Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 27 – Edit as HTML, Codemirror & more
Firefox 27 was just uplifted to the Aurora release channel which means we are back to report on new features in Firefox Developer Tools. Below are just some of the new features, you can also take a look at all bugs resolved in DevTools for this release). JS Debugger: Break on DOM Events You can […]
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an HTML5 offline image editor and uploader application
Many web applications use image uploaders: image hosting websites, blog publishing applications, social networks, among many others. Such uploaders have limitations: you can’t upload more than one file at a time and you can’t edit the image before sending it. A plugin is the usual workaround for uploading more than one image, and image modifications […]
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Firefox 4: HTTP Strict Transport Security (force HTTPS)
This article is about a new HTTPS header: Strict-Transport-Security, which force a website to be fetched through HTTPS. This feature will be part of Firefox 4. How do you type URLs? Do you prefix them with http:// or https:// systematically? Or do you just type example.com and let your browser add http://, like most of […]