Articles by Paul Rouget
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Firefox 4 Demos: More 3D!
Firefox 4 is here! Yeah! And to celebrate the launch, we have released another round of demos on Web O’ Wonder, with 3 awesome WebGL demos! (This new round also introduces mobile-specific demos, see this dedicated blog post). WebGL: It’s 3D and Web Content together. Demo by Cédric Pinson and Guillaume Lecollinet. GlobeTweeter is a […]
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Firefox 4 Demos: Awesome CSS3 Planetarium
O hai pixel lovers! Check out this gorgeous CSS3 demo: Planetarium, by the LittleWorkshop team (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck). Screencast: Youtube link. Gorgeous Animations The principal feature show-cased in this demo is CSS3 Transitions. The animation between the welcome-screen and the planet-screen, and the animation between the different planets are powered by transitions. But there are […]
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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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The shortest image uploader – ever!
A couple of line of JavaScript. That’s all you need. This is a very short Image Uploader, based on imgur.com API. If you want to do more complex stuff (like resize, crop, drawing, colors, …) see my previous post. Back-story. I’ve been talking to Imgur.com‘s owner (Hi Alan!). He recently added Drag’n Drop support to […]
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Firefox 4 Demos: 3 new demos!
Firefox 4 RC is here! And as promised last week, more demos are coming on our Web O’ Wonder website! Here is another round with 3 new demos. Take a look! 360° Video Navigate into a panoramic video. Try it yourself Source code Motivational Poster Editor Create your own motivationnal poster. Try it yourself Source […]
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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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HTML5 Guitar Tab Player with the Firefox 4 Audio Data API
Greg Jopa, an Illinois State University grad student studying web development, built a web-based guitar tab player using Firefox’s Audio Data API and Vexflow (HTML5 music notation rendering API). Here is some details from Greg. You can also read more about this experiment on his blog. I created a mashup using the Firefox 4 Audio […]
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How to develop a HTML5 Image Uploader
HTML5 comes with a set of really awesome APIs. If you combine these APIs with the <canvas> element, you could create a super/modern/awesome Image Uploader. This article shows you how. All these tips work well in Firefox 4. I also describe some alternative ways to make sure it works on Webkit-based browsers. Most of these […]
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here, with WebGL
The new Firefox 4 Beta is here, and comes with WebGL activated by default. You can download this new beta here: http://firefox.com/beta. Flight of the Navigator is a WebGL + Audio API demo developed by a team of Mozilla volunteers. You can see the demo online here (you need a WebGL compatible browser). More information […]
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Firefox 4: recent changes in Firefox
I’ve been really busy these days, and I didn’t have a chance to keep you updated, and a lot happened: Javascript Release of Jägermonkey, Firefox new Javascript engine Release of Kraken, a new browser benchmark SpiderMonkey JSON change: trailing commas no longer accepted New ES5 strict mode support, see the restrictions Hardware acceleration, how to […]