Articles by Paul Rouget
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest update is here — what’s in it for web developers?
The latest Firefox 4 Beta has just been released. Here is a quick overview of the new features for web developers. Hardware acceleration for Windows Vista/7 (via Direct2D) has been activated. Demo and explanations are in a previous post (see screencast below). The Audio Data API is now available. See David’s blog post (see screencast […]
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Firefox Development Highlights – Per Window Private Browsing & Canvas' globalCompositeOperation new values
On a regular basis, we like to highlight the latest features in Firefox for developers, as part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). Per Window Private Browsing Private browsing is very useful for web developers. A new private session doesn’t include existing […]
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Firefox 4 Demos: Runfield – a Canvas Game
Yeah! Another awesome demo in Web’o Wonder! With Hardware Acceleration and a fast JavaScript engine, the web platform is ready for Games. Runfield is an example. This HTML5 Game has been developed by Ilmari Heikkinen. It’s based on Canvas 2D, and this game works on all the recent browsers. (small definition version here – Oh! […]
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Firefox 4 Web Demos: announcing Web O' Wonder
Firefox 4 is almost here. Check out some awesome Web demos on our brand new demo web site: Web’O Wonder. Screencast here. Update: 3 more demos: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/03/webowonder-round/ Web ‘O Wonder Firefox 4 is almost here, and comes with a huge list of awesome features for web developers. In order to illustrate all these new technical […]
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Introducing Firefox Development Highlights
We know he have a lot of readers out there interested in the Open Web and its capabilities, and part of that is to see the latest additions and implemented features in Firefox. Therefore, we’re introducing Firefox Development Highlights here at Mozilla Hacks. Introduction The purpose of this post is to highlight some of the […]
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Rofox, a CSS3 Animations demo
Firefox 5 was released last week. This release comes with CSS3 Animations. Here is a demo made by Anthony Calzadilla. To illustrate what you can achieve with CSS3 Animations, we have been working on demo with Anthony Calzadilla (@acalzadilla), famous for his awesome Animation projects. Check out the demo on the Mozilla Demo Studio. And […]
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Font Inspector and <time> and <data> elements – Firefox Development Highlights
Time for another look at the latest developments with Firefox. This is part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). Font Inspector A Font Inspector is now available in the Firefox DevTools. In the Firefox Inspector, a “Fonts” panel […]
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Firefox Development Highlights: video.playbackRate and download attribute
Here are the latest features in Firefox for developers, as part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). <video>: support for custom playbackRate Setting video.playbackRate changes the “video speed”. 1.0 is regular speed, 2.0 is 2 times faster. From the MDN documentation on […]
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Progress on OMTC, unprefixed Visibility API and CSS improvements – Firefox Development Highlights
To keep all you web developers in the loop about new features and improvements in Firefox, and to be able to test and experiment in an early stage, here’s the latest Firefox Development Highlights. This is part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to […]
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Firefox Development Highlights – Viewport percentage, canvas.toBlob() and WebRTC
To keep you updated on the latest features in Firefox, here is again a blog post highlighting the most recent changes. This is part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). Viewport-percentage lengths Gecko now supports new lenght units: vh, vw, vmin and […]